Memes and why I fail at them, and also, Rockford!

[jlh]

I started to do the iTunes drabble meme—you know, you put your iTunes on shuffle and write drabbles to the first ten songs—but I started the first one and remembered that I hate writing drabbles. However, I discovered that "Fortress Around Your Heart" makes me think of Sokka and Suki and "Who Do You Think" by Interpol reminds me of Mai, re Zuko. Which might be all to say, I'm really excited to see the end of Avatar.

I keep trying to do that book meme but even malsperanza's variant has me in fits. Too much of an Americanist, I reckon, and possibly too shy to put all those mystery books that I was actually reading on the list. But it's a work in progress and might see the light of day at some point. (I'm much better at movie memes—that's how I misspent my youth.)

This week I caught a somewhat standard countdown of America's Top TV and Movie Sleuths and was reminded of good old Jim Rockford. Steven Cannell, his creator, said that when he was writing Jim and came to a fork in the road he'd think of the cliche and then do the opposite. So Jim Rockford has a network of close friends, lives with his dad, is afraid of guns and is always getting beat up, drives an old clunker and spends most of his time on penny-ante cases, barely eking out a living—instead of a hot loyal secretary, he has an answering machine. No wonder I'd loved Rockford so much as a child—he's a fantastic character.

Comments

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

While I don't really write drabbles, per se, I am a ridiculously terse writer. So maybe this'll something to occupy myself while on planes this weekend. Except I have a flash drive that only holds about 300 songs. Hmmm...

[jlh.livejournal.com]

I don't know that you need a much larger pool than that, unless you feel that the songs you have aren't inspiring. Sometimes it's easier because you'll have fewer songs that you're more familiar with.

[illogicalvulcan.livejournal.com]

It's true. But since my playlists tend to be mood dependent, I'd worry about having ten drabbles all with the same theme.

Oh, god, I just got this mental image of listening to one of my whimsical playlists, and trying to write based on "Frozen Puck to the Head" in a universe that doesn't have hockey...

[ali-wildgoose.livejournal.com]

....*really wishes you'd write those fics*

;3

[jlh.livejournal.com]

Honestly at this point I'm waiting to see the last episodes, because most of what's in my head will probably be altered, or answered, or made moot by what happens in them. And since some people have seen them, I'm even shier to post anything, you know, in that getting-Jossed sort of way.

But there's every reason to think that they will be written eventually!

[sistermagpie.livejournal.com]

Ha! What a great explanation of Rockford.