I'm back in Boone again. A beautiful day welcomed me back. Aubrey Moog accompanied me on my ride. Aubrey is one of my favorite people to talk to; we've made this 5 hour drive at least 5 times together and we have yet to run out of things to talk about. This particular ride centered around an array of experiments we would like to one day perform. One experiment would entail taking a kid just going into high school and before their first day of school adorn this kid with a fat suit. The kid would wear the fat suit for one week and the following week they would go without the suit. Aubrey and I are curious about the difference in the way the kids would be treated according to their weight.
We would also like to go into Fairfield High school as undercover reporters dressed as geeky high school kids (similar to Drew Barrymore's assignment in Never Been Kissed). Why Fairfield High? I recently talked with an alum from this Connecticut high school and the school is absolutely ridiculous. There is this whole network of social cliques with distinct names and characteristics and if you can't squeeze into any of these groups...tough luck...There's a lot of things to say about the kids at Fairfield high, but we wont go into detail until our experiment is carried out.
One final experiment we would like to execute is following an average person into stardom. It is fascinating what happens to people when tabloids and fans and cameras invade their lives and they are ushered into "fame." If we can get a pretty girl a minor part in a film and then get the media to put her face in the spotlight a couple of times her persona will gradually begin to transform. Celebrity boyfriend. Trendy clothes. dramatic story that excites the paparazzi...we've got ourselves the next Lindsey Lohan. We think it is incredible how stars begin to believe they live in a world separate from the rest of humanity. A world where they must live so dignified and diamond-studded. We wonder if it is possible to become a celebrity and not to become materialistic...is it possible? God, tell me it's possible.
Besides devising these experiments...Aubrey drilled me with movie and celebrity trivia only to discover my ignorance of it all..sorry to disappoint you Aubrey. But I do know now that Brad Pitt was never sexier than in his role in Thelma and Louise.
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
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