Be Kind Rewind

Saw Be Kind Rewind yesterday. Just two things:

1. The movie is set in Passaic, NJ. I lived in Passaic for a year between 1999 and 2001.

2. The movie plot made me remember a fictional piece (or at least the start of one) I'd written a few years ago (2004 I think) that had some elements in common with the movie. Here's what I'd written then:

Bill wrote low-priced editions of best-seller fiction - his job was basically to write cliff-notes for people not with low-vocabulary but ones with not much of the greens. His day to day job was to read best-selling novels and then re-write the story using words and sub-plots that only people with less money could afford. Exhorbitant words such as "infundibuliform" (which means "funnel-shape") were not allowed. Bill loved his job. Because in addition to contributing something valuable to the literary world, he was creating a parallel society that basically thought they had read "Gone with the Wind", but in reality they had not! They had read a book with the same title alright, many of the characters in the play had the same names as the Classic too and the original and its counterpart had the same number of pages. But the subplots varied! And all the words were within the means and the wallet of the people buying them.

I kind of liked the movie. It was a bit slap-stick. But it had a few good parts as well like way they improvise to make films look old (shooting the film from behind a rotating fan), and the way they shoot the sweded version of 2001: A Space Odessey.

Jermaine O'Neal to Toronto deal done?

Indystar reports that the deal may be done. I think T.J.Ford is a phenomenal player.

No one gets to their Heaven without a fight

Rush