Conversation with Self at 9:52 am
Me: Ok so you are always bitchin about not doing anything constructive. But you feel constructive sometimes. Where do you get that feeling from?
Bret: I get it from my blog I guess.
Me: Right. Well you get it from that and being able to drink a reverse car bomb but more importantly you enjoy writing.
Bret: Yeah
Me: So you should follow up on Tim's suggestion and do a little website about making fun of personal ads.
Bret: YEAH!
Me: Damn right yeah. It would be funny and an outlet. And you could be constructive even if it is shallow and deprecating to the world. Plus who is better at making fun of people than you? No one that's who! No one baby.
Bret: Damn straight. Wait... that's awful. But quite true.
Me: So?
Bret: So what?
Me: So go start.
Bret: I have work to do.
Me: Come on.
Bret: You come on.
Me: Go grab a shitty template off of blogger and start. It'll be easy and damn fun. You know it will.
Bret: Ok. But first I want to tell you about this idea for an idea about a book
Me: Who is 'you'. I am 'you'. I mean 'me'. Whoa...getting a little unraveled again aren't we 'us'.
Bret: Yeah. So anyway this book is taken out of the vein of like Joyce writing because well it has to.
Me: What the fuck does that mean?
Bret: It means that it's really hard to understand because that's the point of writing about something insane. It's like taking your fight to the street because the street is just as hard as the fight.
Me: Riiiiiggghhhtt. Continue
Bret: I was reading Portrait of an Artist last night for the bazillionth time and I couldn't get past the 10th page again without having to go back to read it again. And then I started looking around at my room and my life and what I surround myself with. I thought about lies and how everyone lies. EVERYONE LIES EVERYDAY! And no one writes about it, at least no one that I have read. People are too proud to admit that they live a lie.
Me: Are you saying we live a lie?
Bret: I'm saying that everyone does to an extent. But OH YEAH WE DEFINITELY DO!
Me: Ok. I can see that.
Bret: So I was thinking about a story about a guy who lies to himself and the world and to God. But the lies become true in his head and some of the truths about him he thinks are lies. It would be good. I'm going to sit down and try to hash out some ideas now.
Me: Good idea.
Bret: Thanks. We should thank Tim.
Me: Thanks Tim.
Bret: Yeah Thanks Tim.
