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cosmic_llin, who asks: If your life was a TV show, what genre would it be and what would be the theme? What would it be called? (Bear in mind That's So Raven is already taken. ;D)
I feel like there's a version of my life written by Jhumpa Lahiri, with an intense and cinematic visual style, all bleak anomic cityscapes and wide open spaces, trying to pull out themes of shape and sharp space and alienation from the tiny details of quotidan life.
I mean. Like. If I had no friends, and no one loved me. And if I were three times as pretty and better at applying eyeliner and at least seven inches taller.
...yeah. My life is a sitcom with the same visual style as Parks and Recreation. (I'm actually amazed I can't think of a sitcom set in the office of a general commercial and property litigator, with plots-of-the-week centering on whoever marches in and starts throwing things that day. I mean. In my two years training in practice, I dealt with people arguing over pigs, people claiming other people had stolen their fishing boats, people bringing actions in the name of dead people, people burning their own houses down for the insurance money, people threatening to come into my office and kill me, and the court usher urinating, while in court, into a jug, inter many alia) I would like to be played by Archie Panjabi, please. (She is both prettier, and taller, than me - although the resemblance is occasionally marked.) You'd need someone cute and Scottish to play Shim. There would be litigation plots, and brown-people-are-hilarious plots, and get-married-yay-have-all-the-weddings plots, and what with boundary disputes, first registrations, culture clashes and a multiracial happy marriage, I guess the theme of the thing would be, you can't go home again, except sometimes, when you can. I'd call it, mmm, Locus Standi, and the upbeat sitcom theme tune would go a little like this.
cosmic_llin, who asks: If your life was a TV show, what genre would it be and what would be the theme? What would it be called? (Bear in mind That's So Raven is already taken. ;D)I feel like there's a version of my life written by Jhumpa Lahiri, with an intense and cinematic visual style, all bleak anomic cityscapes and wide open spaces, trying to pull out themes of shape and sharp space and alienation from the tiny details of quotidan life.
I mean. Like. If I had no friends, and no one loved me. And if I were three times as pretty and better at applying eyeliner and at least seven inches taller.
...yeah. My life is a sitcom with the same visual style as Parks and Recreation. (I'm actually amazed I can't think of a sitcom set in the office of a general commercial and property litigator, with plots-of-the-week centering on whoever marches in and starts throwing things that day. I mean. In my two years training in practice, I dealt with people arguing over pigs, people claiming other people had stolen their fishing boats, people bringing actions in the name of dead people, people burning their own houses down for the insurance money, people threatening to come into my office and kill me, and the court usher urinating, while in court, into a jug, inter many alia) I would like to be played by Archie Panjabi, please. (She is both prettier, and taller, than me - although the resemblance is occasionally marked.) You'd need someone cute and Scottish to play Shim. There would be litigation plots, and brown-people-are-hilarious plots, and get-married-yay-have-all-the-weddings plots, and what with boundary disputes, first registrations, culture clashes and a multiracial happy marriage, I guess the theme of the thing would be, you can't go home again, except sometimes, when you can. I'd call it, mmm, Locus Standi, and the upbeat sitcom theme tune would go a little like this.