OK… it’s not an actual drawer… more like scribbles on pieces of paper of various sizes in folders, plastic bags, etc. Over the years I have amassed notes of ideas for plays, characters, concepts, lines and plots that may or may not have made it into any of my produced works so far. I ran across a folder last night. (Yeah, there are several dispersed around the homestead.)
Here’s a sampling…
THROUGH-LINE: A man wakes up to discover he is dead and his life doesn’t amount to crap.
ON THE CONCEPT OF THE SOUL & OTHER CRAP (Notes from The Dead Guy Show)
- The soul gets bruised with the cruelty of life. – more often than not we bruise our own souls through our decisions and actions.
- The soul shrivels most from indecision and inaction.
- The reason for life is to color the soul with experience – life is college… death is graduation.
- Physical death may not be the end of the coloring process – souls can choose to be “earthbound” for a period of time – for some, it may not be a choice but a requirement.
- In the afterlife the soul can choose to be their “optimum age” from the life they just left.
CONVENTIONS
When you are dead…
- You wear no pants – this is the first stage in shedding one’s earthly life.
- You can help affect decisions and actions of mortals… you can place “inspirations” on the living.
- The first stage is an earthbound transition – everything seems the same except you wear no pants.
- You can karaoke at any time.
THOUGHTS & LINES (that may or may not have made it into the final work
……
ROLAND: “When someone gets married… are they doing it because that’s the best they can do?”
JIM: “Absolutely!”
ROLAND: “So, marriage is an act of resignation?”…..
SKY: “I’ve felt a presence in this house on occasion… and not a good one.
JIM: “A presence… like a ghost?”
SKY: “Yeah… with real negative vibes too.”
JIM: “So, we are all dead… but we can still be haunted by ghosts?”
JOEY: “Some say we are haunted by the ghosts of our regrets.”
JIM: “Look we are not sitting in some Paris cafe discussing philosophy…”
ROLAND: “Ahh, Paris… I was once there on an audit… in my younger accountant days…”
JIM: That’s all very nice, Roland… but she just said there’s a ghost in this house.”
SKY: “Yeah… so?”
JIM: “But we are already dead! How can that be?”……
JOEY: “Hey, you see a tank around? You’re still looking at 50 years in double time, buddy. This is no hit! Its way too clean. And nothing personal but you were not big enough for a hit this clean.”
SKY: “So, you still don’t know how you died. That’s too bad… really too bad.”
ROLAND: “Do I detect something in your tone that Jim knowing how he died somehow affects us all?”
SKY: “Somehow…. Perhaps…. For some of us… maybe.”
JOEY: “You’ve got to give us a little more to go on, babe!”
SKY:”I’m sorry Joey, I can’t. Jim still has to find out how he died.”…..
So, there you have it. Have a Happy Hump Day!
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