Embalming, Weird Stuff, Short Film(2)
Short film scroll down; short film 1 available here.
The current (failed) novel I’m working on deals with the undeath of a beautiful woman. What does that have to do with…? You ask. Well, part of my (unsuccess) compulsion is to just take the time and sit at a machine and do what I do. Sometimes that entails page upon page of relevant material. Other times there is complete nonsense. Then there are the moments where the reality of life begins to confront the obsession… In this case it’s in the form of undying chicks.
I mean, come on… what is there to (worst)write about?
Her undeath has lead to a lot of thoughts about man’s silly way(s) of life. For example: Embalming. Wiki has a cool entry on the subject. Then there are the various other web sources which you can google on your own. (I’ll have no part of your perversions.)
To me, one of the weirdest things man does is to embalm the dead. I mean, come on, in life and death mankind really does some weird stuff.
Weird Humanity Stuff:
Lobotomy
Electroshock Therapy
Corporate Subjugation
Marriage
Credit Cards
Public Schooling
Taxation
Religion, etc., etc.
Maybe it’s because of the top of that list that all this weird stuff happens. I mean, does it really matter if we’ve gotten away from throwing virgins in volcanoes? Or what about skinning someone while alive in order to make them believe in JC before you kill them? How long has it been since we last burnt people on stakes? (Digress.)
My latest short film was motivated by thoughts and anecdotal surveys in typing…
Usually these short films take anywhere from 12 to 15 minutes to actually film. But I have to cut them and chop them and use codecs and whatever for the hosting platform. And, trust me, if I didn’t cut/edit them according to the user agreement -slash- pre-established authority, they would be even more boring. Talk about subjugation.
This film features a Princess 300, which you can read more about here. In its day this was a great typewriter. Making this machine could not have been cheap. It has some of the best machined parts that I’ve seen on any typewriter. The platen is shot, though, and it does have a bit of stickiness. Here is a write-up on this machine from a real collector. Here another source of typewriter collecting. A transcript from this film is below.
Rant on,
-tgs-
