Courtesy today by my bestest pal Toby who's been working on a novel about North Carolina rednecks for about 15 years now...(see link to the right). Get writin', Toby!!!
There's a really good chance that I went to High School with this psycho or painted houses with him or...
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/com/605126216.html
I graduated from Apex Senior High in 1986. Not at the top of my class, but not too far from the top either. I was forced to take Drama class by my Honors English teacher Mrs. Mims in exchange for doing my Senior paper as my own Super-8mm take on Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage."
So I did the make-up for "Sweeney Todd" - a lot of blood - which was cool as shit. But then she asked me to "dance" as one of the "Farmboys" in "Gypsy" which I did, much to my chagrin.
(Why the hell was a High School in the rural South putting on plays about a murderer and a prostitute? Nonetheless, obviously it had an impact on my future work...)
But I got to make my film. Me and Jeff and Andy shooting each other with BB guns and a lot of ketchupy blood.
When I showed it in class on my Super-8mm projector with the sorta synchronized cassette tape soundtrack, it went over like "Citizen Kane."
I don't even have a photograph to illustrate this rant. But I do have the film - somewhere...
Rednecks. Rural South. Murder. Whoring. Dancing Farmboys.
Maybe I should dig a little deeper into my creative psyche?
Fuck.
As a placeholder, here's another shot of Katy.
Deal with it...and forgive me. Too drunk, too drunk...
1 comment:
i've seen both sweeny todd and gypsey and i don't recall any whores in either. serial killers, canabilism, gang rape, strippers and child brides, yes, but no prostitutes. but i do remember dancing farmboys.
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