Inspirational Music, screenplay, ect...

I'm still on vacation, and vacation is still on me. For the oddest reason, I've been feeling like this has gone on for too long, although when I do return home, and adjust back into a routine, I'm sure I'll still feel the same as I do now, but miss the vacation time. The past week has been rough, but I've tried staying positive. I with to exert most of my time in the script, but I keep slipping away. Music has helped in producing material, but its great when I hear a song and think its great to inspire me, but once I listen to it several times, it becomes different. When at first, a great song for a possible soundtrack, now is just another fucking tune stuck on repeat in my head. One song has failed to lose its beauty and inspiration, and that song is titled "Girls Talk" by Angelo Badalamenti. This composer has written and performed songs in just about every David Lynch film. This specific song I found on the Twin Peaks soundtrack, which I downloaded a few days ago and cannot become sick of it. Throughout the song, different moods are present and gradually shift into others. It accurately represents a Lynch film. Next to that one is Harry Nilsson's version of "One." This song, while beautifully covered by Aimee Mann in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Magnolia" is even better due to its simplicity and loneliness tone in the voice. I see this song as an opening for the film, but it was already used as an opening in Magnolia, so I'll avoid copying others material like Steven Speilberg did in the latest Indiana Jones movie. The other song that has helped me keeping focus to the story is Electric Light Orchestra's "Twilight," because like the first song, it contains various changing pitch and style within several parts. While this song doesn't compete in elegance like Badalamenti, it does have a catchy chorus that makes me happy. And the film song used as inspiration is "Dreaming" from Blondie. It's just a great song and is titled "Dreaming," which serves much relevance to my story. So, "Girls Talk", "One", "Twilight" and "Dreaming" all have kept me in line to write this story.

Much of the actual story has not been constructed yet. I'm more concerned about characterization first. While I've changed the story around a number of ways, I'm still trying to focus on particular events that occur and how they excite other events to follow. I'm up against a wall as far as what to reveal in my blog. So much of it I don't want to give away, and interpret from my perspective. I guess I'll discuss a little. Maybe this will help the thoughts flow. I want to stay with a theme that I've used before: connection of characters, and a single or multiple links between these people that might or might not be well addressed. I've been toying around with context in the whole of the story. I guess I'll talk a little about the characters. The story centers around (for now) two couples. The first couple consists of a college English professor and the college psychiatrist. And while their relationship seems like that of a typical married couple, their relationship at home is completely different. Some might even consider it abnormal. I use the phrasing "some" because I hope to not only address, but destroy the line that separates the normal and abnormal, and there are individuals that might take a different position on this. David Lynch uses something similar with the elimination of the permanent definition of comedy. I find that in most situations Lynch establishes a situation, that while appears serious with the aid of technical advances, that cannot be defined as funny or serious. In a way, he leaves it up to the audience to find it either funny or serious. So, I want to leave it in the air whether this will be taken as normal or abnormal. In a way, it's good to have abnormalities and taboos, because it presents a form of escapism. And these characters all use forms of escapism to hope for progress, and are presented with struggles. Without a line of communication, disaster occurs. But with some circumstances, the unloading of the things hidden can ruin everything. The second couple is that of an aspiring filmmaker and a writer. Both are students attending the same college the other mentioned characters preside over. Another character, also a student, will fall in love with the English professor, and act as the spawning tack that is placed between the teacher and her husband. This character might be an actor in the college's theatre, and the English professor might ask her husband to take her to the production, and the entire time, the woman loses herself within the production and creates the fantasy of her and the student. Maybe. I think the relationship between the student and the professor is an important and controversial subject, and I want to explore the situation, not with the intent for controversy, but merely just to tell another story. I've toyed around with using various forms of psychoanalysis within the story, but I'm not sure about that yet. I do want to go into the unconscious and kind of get inside the minds of these characters. I like the idea of creating characters and sticking them in difficult situation and think about how they would get out. Hopefully by that time I will have created the character so fully that I'll know in an instant what reaction would take place. Okay, I think this is enough to make me continue writing tonight. I'll discuss a little more tomorrow.