"Call me 'Daddy,' shit-head! Where's the bourbon?!"

So last night Dave pointed out that Isabella Rossillini in Blue Velvet looks *exactly* like Dave Foley from The Kids in the Hall when he dresses up as a woman. I have not yet decided if this has put an irrevocable stain on my enjoyment of the movie, or rather added a whooooole new level of surrealism that even David Lynch did not anticipate.

And since we're discussing Kids in the Hall, not that we were, there's never a bad time for this:

"This is a drug. For the world. To give worms. To ex-girlfriends! You just don't get it! Ha-HOO!"

the greatest novel idea ever

First and foremost, the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey is going to be doing a production of Brecht's "Galileo" in August. Why is this important, you ask? Because Galileo will be played by Sherman Howard, AKA Howard Sherman, AKA Bub the Zombie from DAY OF THE DEAD. Fuck. Yes. Oh, my geek friends, we are SO having a road trip. Which brings me to my main point in this post:

In the midst of stress and unhappiness from all sides of my life, I've come up with the greatest novel idea yet. Johnny Go and Bub the Zombie on a road trip to Vegas! One harbors delusions of being a swinging hipster who ran with the Rat Pack. The other is a zombie who has stopped eating people and is slowly remembering what it was like to be alive. Together, they will venture the highways of post-apocalyptic America to reach Johnny Go's obsession: the mystical land of his dreams known as Vegas.

This unlikely duo will become the best of friends, protecting each other from the harsh elements and from monsters both undead and human, and along the way they will teach each other valuable lessons of what it means to be alive and human. But in the irradiated wasteland that once was America, what chance do a swingin' madman and a decaying reanimated corpse have? The Las Vegas of Johnny Go's dreams is long gone, if it ever even existed, and what will they find in its place? Does the world have any place for these two relics? Driving together in a beaten-up old Cadillac convertible, Johnny Go and Bub will find out, one way or another.

I dunno about you, but for me, this novel is where all my happy is going. So far, I'm thinking it's gonna draw on a number of influences including DOTD, Mad Max, Fear and Loathing, Travels with Charley, Wild at Heart, Ocean's 11 (the original, baby!) and Bubba Ho-Tep. And it's not gonna be a parody either, but a real story with comedy and pathos and a tragic yet bittersweet ending! I mean, seriously, how can these two characters have a happy ending? Doesn't mean they still can't go out in style! It's amazing what the combined fever dreams of Dave and I can come up with. As Bub himself might say, "Hate living... love swingin'!"

I wonder if this story will still be a brilliant idea after I've recovered from thesis writing and that goddamn french final that terrifies my very soul. Time will tell. Ok, back to work. Again.