A Movie for Jack Black

Idea for the weekend is that there should be a new movie written for Jack Black, a musical, of course. The movie tells the tale of a man from a family of drivers who works as a city street cleaner, and who will lose his job to a new private company the city has hired out of professional and tech-savy drivers. The plot is a comment on actual knowledge versus technology (i.e.: gps in cars: do they really know better?) and the fact that occupations are changing, which could be for the better.
Song from the movie (to be sung by Jack Black as he drives his snow removal truck): "I'm a street cleaner baby, I'm saving the world, getting you to where you need to go, but safely!"


Have I written the screenplay yet? No. Again, this is just an idea, a beautiful, musical idea that will hopefully see the light of day (of false night) in movie theaters across the world.

Take two good things....

One of the better ideas I embraced while living in Japan was the idea that two beautiful things, put together, could not be made less beautiful. For example, if you had a beautiful plaid shirt, and a beautiful pair of polka dot tights, because they were beautiful they could NOT not look beautiful together.
I loved it and adopted it, first as my fashion guide and then later as a food and life guide. Red sweat pants and a nice cranberry color apron? Yes. Cheese and peanut butter? Yes. Running while reading a book? Well, this was harder back in 2002, but then they can up with ipods and books that you could download, so yes to this, too.
A few months later, the tellers of this fabulous ways of life explained that it wasn't 100% accurate, and they were speaking more in terms of two fashion things that their children would put together first thing in the morning. You see, I worked at a daycare in Japan, and as in most daycares world-wide, in order to get the kid to school in time and to avoid unnecessary conflict, parents would concede on what the child would choose to wear. If the kid wanted to wear a tonka truck hat and a tutu, and you're running late as it is, why not?
"Do I look beautiful, mama?" one student asked his mother as he walked around with one of my extra aprons, made from a pink rabbit pattern, his transformers pajama pants, and a bright yellow shirt. It was a fashion disaster, but the mother simply said, "Yes, of course."

I had been lied to? No. I was allowed to think about possibilities again like a child. So for creative idea number two, make a list of all the things you like, and then start pairing them off in random. Walks on the beach and bananas? Why not a walk through a banana plantation, with a little bottle of spritzer. Easy.

At some point we should all get a theme song

We should all have a theme song. At the start of the consultation meeting, where I am hired to help a company get more creative, the first thing I would make people do is break off in small groups and pick their theme song. Give everyone access to a computer and the Itunes store, and say,
"Go on, pick one."
Then you'd probably see the people who can't make up their mind, the closet country fans, the hipsters who love pop music, and the natural group leaders who really do like "Eye of the Tiger". It doesn't matter. As long as they pick a song, and explain the song. All music is good.