telebsession

so i haven't done the constantly watching television thing probably since i was a freshman in high school.

but now i'm home and have access to on demand and the idle time to bittorrent.

arrested development
drawn together
curb your enthusiasm
the sopranos
dr. katz
sifl & olly
twin peaks

damn yo. that's some entertaining shit. it's making me want to write screenplays again. the current idea is as follows: an elderly couple dies in a hospital, both of them at the same time in the same hospital room. as they die, memories flash before their eyes. their relationship was one of strife and conflict. they grew bitter and lost all feelings of love over the years. but now, in some sort of david lynch is it imagined or is it a magical realist warp in space-time thing, they step back, one conflict at a time, un-doing each one, and then playing life forward in attempt to change the future and allow them to die happy. they keep going back and back...don't cheat on her there, will that make it better? no, they die alone and bitter in that timeline. go on that vacation he wanted then, will that fix it? no, they end up having another child but have a furious divorce and die in car crash. this keeps going until it's the day that they met. but every attempt to un-meet and disentangle their lives from each other entirely keeps reforming a meeting between them. i'm not sure what the message is entirely. it's just that i keep thinking about relationships and watching how everyone's parents are divorced or they stayed together for the kids and they're unhappy and what the fuck is the point? but i'm such a goddamned idealist and romantic that now i'm trying to fuse that with my newfound cyncism. can there be beauty and fate and destiny and true starstruck intertwinedness in the most bitter and painful of relationships? my intuition is yes. i haven't worked out the details but i think a movie that throws you into the lifelong conflict of a horrible relationship but actually leaves you hopeful would be an important movie to make.