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teaberryblue) wrote2013-05-03 04:58 pm
teaberryblue) wrote2013-05-03 04:58 pm
On A Dark Desert Highway
So, for those of you who are interested, some developments:
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
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Say someone wanted to use Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (which I would consider to be pretty damn classic, despite the date, unless you are sticking to a very narrow time frame). Could that person write from the perspective of the narrator, from Mary Jane as a person - or from Mary Jane as a metaphor turned into a person? Does that make sense? I mean, in the case of this song, it seems as though one could use all three, unless you don't want that last option to apply. I wasn't sure if that last option violated the rule you used (when describing the Beatles and their songs), but I was curious. And I'm rambling because my brain is on overdrive. But I am truly curious. :)
Also, why 2/3/59? Am I missing a song/musical reference?
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And 2/3/59 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_the_Music_Died)
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And okay, that makes sense. So the narrator is a character, Mary Jane from Indiana is a character, but Mary Jane as a personified drug reference is not a character. Gotcha.
I really love your concept here. There's a book - I can't remember the name at the moment - in which famous authors took their favorite songs and created stories based around them. Nick Hornby essentially did the same thing, too. So your concept reminds me of that, which is awesome.
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Quick digression: After hearing about the film "Six String Samurai" (not even seeing a frame of it, oh dialup days...) I built this overly-complicated big-budget action movie version of a similar setup where a group of these sorts of characters/anthropomorphized ideas would team up with Buddy and Dio to fight Death Metal and his father the Wizard of Ozz for the fate of Lost Vegas.
Then I actually watched the movie and it was not that and I was sad. Then the video game Brütal Legend happened and was kinda a lot like that thing I thought up even though I didn't have fun with it.
/digression
Anyway, I know I already did a thing with him once but if Major Tom is open, I so call dibs.
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I can't think of any songs ever recorded with people in them OMGHang on.. forwarding this post and the last one to my roommate.. because she's
oldersmarter than me when it comes to music!people. LOLEDIT: I have mostly narrowed it down to Venus. Because there's too much Oz in my head to not influence my take on the Wizard of.. <3
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One problem:
"We haven't seen that spirit here since 1969."
So... the hotel is non-chron? A TARDIS?
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And oooh I am excited that you are interested. I haven't sucked any of my real-life-in-person friends into my crazy games since 1969.
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So Bobby goes on a crazy road trip with his/her girlfriend, Cecilia, until s/he catches Cecilia cheating on him/her, and decides to go on a drunken bender around the Bahamas until s/he falls madly in love with a prostitute?
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What if Roxanne and Cecilia were the same person? Roxanne's the name she uses for work, and although she loves her boyfriend, he just can't get over the sex work thing, and he "wants to take her away from all this" which is SUPER annoying.
So she shouts out "who killed the kennedys?" and goes to work on Maggie's Farm — but not for long.
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Oh, yeah, it should just be one. For now. I was just going a little haywire with the trying to work them all into one plot.
Then she takes a ride on the riverboat queen?
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