She was going to make this outstandingly awesome blog about film editing...and then she said, "Shit! The song doesn't have those exact words in
it. I could have sworn it did...but it doesn't."
She then copy/pasted/mailed the text she had written to herself in an email
to herself as she always does when she writes her lame-o blog and then she just
sat there thinking.
She thought a while. Nothing was coming to her mind. Sure, she could
write a stupid segue to her original thought...but that was just, well, pretty
lame again.
She thought, originally, when seeing the prompt, always just right before
she typed her blog...never reading them ahead of time, because she really did
like the spontaneity of her mind thinking things one way and then ending up a
whole other -- that it reminded her of that "She Said She Said" song by the
Beatles. "But," she thought to herself, "everyone would have probably thought
of that straight away...but then again I bet no one has. But, it's not that
great a blog idea anyway...not anywhere's as good as the film editing in the
film musical, 'Chicago' with Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger, Richard
Gere, Queen Latifah...and all the others in it."
But, while the intro to her blog was magnificent, citing Charles Chaplin's
1931 "City Lights" film and the fact he shot 314,256 feet of film and edited it
down to 8.093 feet, pretty much single-handedly -- while also writing,
directing, starring, and producing it, she had to scrap that idea -- pretty
much like Chaplin had to scrap 306,163 feet of film. Only, Chaplin was pure
genius...and she was only "eh".
She always thinks everything she writes is "eh" because the times she
thought it was "pretty damned good" no one paid much attention anyway. It was
like when she was in school and she'd always, always think she did poorly on a
test, because it was so much easier finding out later that you did a great
job than being disappointed if it turned out the other way around. What a
let-down to get your hopes up...best not to set them too high.
As it turns out, she's always secretly wishing, inside her head, that
things will turn out great -- while still trying to convince her inner self that
she doesn't. This whole "inner self talking to your other inner self" process is
quite difficult. She wonders if everyone thinks like she does. "That" she says
to herself, "would be awfully weird." Only she's not actually saying it
out loud because THAT would probably be a bad sign, and no amount of thinking
something good while trying to convince yourself something totally
different...would ever change that one. Talking to your own self with
your own mouth with your own words coming out of it is definitely a bad
thing.
But then, out of the blue, and just out of curiosity, she mustered up the
courage and spoke aloud the words, "Or IS it?"
So far, so good.
And then she said, but only where her head could hear, "Hmmmm...I simply
can do that alone after all."
(In case you are all wondering, I thought the song in "Chicago" said "And then she said" - but it says "She'd say" instead...so I had to scrap my whole original idea. It also won the Academy Award aka "Oscar" for best film editing in 2002. This blog, in my opinion, would have been written so much more eloquently...and interestingly...if only...)
And, if you're still reading this...go on over to "We Work for Cheese" to read about everyone else's take on today's prompt, which again is "And then she said". Go on - go on over. You can do it...and you can do it alone.
