Ideas for Ziplocistan
-First season should be about the kids hearing in their country about american colleges taking foreign students with lower test scores. They apply to Harvard Extension, thinking its the real Harvard. Upon getting in to the school that takes everyone, they sell all of their belongings and fly to boston, only to find out they can't stay at the dorm.
-1st season could also be about them trying to find work in boston knowing little to no english; therefor only doing jobs that can be done through miming.
-2nd season they could end up running out of jobs in boston and start importing drugs from their native country through their fisherman friends in boston. Making them drug dealers also leads to a variety of new language for the two main characters to learn from their customers.
-The two characters should have grown up drinking moonshine and other extremely potent homemade boozes giving them a rediculous tolerance. The should clean up at drinking games which could be why the frat takes them in.
-Both kids should clean up with boston girls who love foreign guys. there are tons of them.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Defense for Ninjas*
*This is not to say, in anyway, that ninjas are better than pirates, because as previously stated, pirates rule.
-Ninjas are masters of deception, therefor they must get mad bitches. Like the hot geisha bitches who do the naughty naughty.
-No one can tell if you're wearing underwear under a robe, constant freeballin'.
-Hook hands, although nice for opening beers, seem a little dangerous.
-Ninjas have the ability to grow amazingly sweet facial hair. Imagine the yet to be seen eyebrow comb-over.
-Ninjas also enjoy farting and are masters of 'silent but deadly'
-Getting drunk at sea can only add to the spins.
-You never hear about a ninja getting lost at sea and having to eat nasty shit like leather boots and rats. this might be because you never hear about ninjas.
-Ninjas don't mutiny, so if you make it to head ninja you're set for life and get to whack people with your old man stick whenever they disrespect you.
-Skinny guys make the best ninjas, bruce lee could kick your ass.
-Sake bombs and general gao chicken is enjoyed by ninjas nightly.
-Pirates think women on your ship is bad luck sometimes being given the term ass pirates. kinda gay.
-Ninjas always have cool, Alfred from batman type servants who guard their secret lairs.
-Plus ninjas have secret lairs, awesome. Possibly under the alias of 'dojo' which in japanese means 'secret lair with hot bitches' it's a rough translation but i m pretty sure it's accurate.
-Ninjas always spend their money in a rap star type fashion buying cool shit like solid gold temples and swords encrusted with diamonds. Pirates always bury their treasure then die leaving a map. how could you not remember something like that? unless you were really really drunk.
-Ninjas are masters of deception, therefor they must get mad bitches. Like the hot geisha bitches who do the naughty naughty.
-No one can tell if you're wearing underwear under a robe, constant freeballin'.
-Hook hands, although nice for opening beers, seem a little dangerous.
-Ninjas have the ability to grow amazingly sweet facial hair. Imagine the yet to be seen eyebrow comb-over.
-Ninjas also enjoy farting and are masters of 'silent but deadly'
-Getting drunk at sea can only add to the spins.
-You never hear about a ninja getting lost at sea and having to eat nasty shit like leather boots and rats. this might be because you never hear about ninjas.
-Ninjas don't mutiny, so if you make it to head ninja you're set for life and get to whack people with your old man stick whenever they disrespect you.
-Skinny guys make the best ninjas, bruce lee could kick your ass.
-Sake bombs and general gao chicken is enjoyed by ninjas nightly.
-Pirates think women on your ship is bad luck sometimes being given the term ass pirates. kinda gay.
-Ninjas always have cool, Alfred from batman type servants who guard their secret lairs.
-Plus ninjas have secret lairs, awesome. Possibly under the alias of 'dojo' which in japanese means 'secret lair with hot bitches' it's a rough translation but i m pretty sure it's accurate.
-Ninjas always spend their money in a rap star type fashion buying cool shit like solid gold temples and swords encrusted with diamonds. Pirates always bury their treasure then die leaving a map. how could you not remember something like that? unless you were really really drunk.
Sunday, March 9, 2008
In the midst of a Lost bender
Cranking through season three of Lost, which is an unbelievable show in terms of structure, and the sheer amount of stuff they have put into it. Everything is so well thought out.
Anyways, Lost discussion to come after finishing all the episodes, but for now, show idea.
Two friends, not really really borat and the fat guy but in a similar vein, come from their country (Ziplocistan is a name I'm stealing from my buddy's 9th grade history project) to go to school in America. The school is on the beach, so it's just a great visual place to go to school. Neither of the kids speak much english, but they manage to get by and learn english as the series goes on. (thinking like the camera crew in Bowfinger, also thinking of Spanglish and it's possible sequel about the problems of outsourcing tech support to India, Spangladesh) And the kids find themselves alienated at school, but also have difficulty with paying for school, so they get jobs down at the docks, working with a bunch of old salts. these are the guys that accept them and dont care that they dont speak too much, because these guys will talk to anyone who listens, and most of them are intelligle anyway (as this post is becoming; my writing has gone for shit since I stopped doing it so frequently, another on the to-do list after learning piano and Spanish, or Spangladeshese) And to keep the college within the story- maybe they also join a fraternity, and there I want a kid who was raised in the fraternity his whole life and has never known anything else- almost a complete opposite to these worldly types would be someone who lived forever in the bubble that is a fraternity. Anyways, short outline- Four season show, for each year of school- easy- no PG year, end it strong, the key here comes from Lost; plan it out so that certain pay-offs may not come until seasons later, but keep enough humor in the show to keep the audience coming back.
Not so interested in cliff-hangers and "previously on..."'s but more a show where you can jump into any episode, like Seinfeld, but with more arch- and definitely not a That 70's Show where the kids are in high school forever or Boy Meets World where they go to college forever. The show should have heart of course, but the anchors have to be the two foreigners, and their coming to grips with a world that does not care about them, and how they overcome that. I want a college show that is more about real life- as if they were community college students, and the school thing was there because of their great desire to better themselves. Shit, they travelled across the world and left everything they ever knew, all their comforts, to do it.
That's an outline- it basically takes pieces from everything we've talked about, i've thought about, and tries to put them together in some semblance of a show, which is something that Lost is the king of.
Mostly, I just always wanted to go to school on a beach.
Anyways, Lost discussion to come after finishing all the episodes, but for now, show idea.
Two friends, not really really borat and the fat guy but in a similar vein, come from their country (Ziplocistan is a name I'm stealing from my buddy's 9th grade history project) to go to school in America. The school is on the beach, so it's just a great visual place to go to school. Neither of the kids speak much english, but they manage to get by and learn english as the series goes on. (thinking like the camera crew in Bowfinger, also thinking of Spanglish and it's possible sequel about the problems of outsourcing tech support to India, Spangladesh) And the kids find themselves alienated at school, but also have difficulty with paying for school, so they get jobs down at the docks, working with a bunch of old salts. these are the guys that accept them and dont care that they dont speak too much, because these guys will talk to anyone who listens, and most of them are intelligle anyway (as this post is becoming; my writing has gone for shit since I stopped doing it so frequently, another on the to-do list after learning piano and Spanish, or Spangladeshese) And to keep the college within the story- maybe they also join a fraternity, and there I want a kid who was raised in the fraternity his whole life and has never known anything else- almost a complete opposite to these worldly types would be someone who lived forever in the bubble that is a fraternity. Anyways, short outline- Four season show, for each year of school- easy- no PG year, end it strong, the key here comes from Lost; plan it out so that certain pay-offs may not come until seasons later, but keep enough humor in the show to keep the audience coming back.
Not so interested in cliff-hangers and "previously on..."'s but more a show where you can jump into any episode, like Seinfeld, but with more arch- and definitely not a That 70's Show where the kids are in high school forever or Boy Meets World where they go to college forever. The show should have heart of course, but the anchors have to be the two foreigners, and their coming to grips with a world that does not care about them, and how they overcome that. I want a college show that is more about real life- as if they were community college students, and the school thing was there because of their great desire to better themselves. Shit, they travelled across the world and left everything they ever knew, all their comforts, to do it.
That's an outline- it basically takes pieces from everything we've talked about, i've thought about, and tries to put them together in some semblance of a show, which is something that Lost is the king of.
Mostly, I just always wanted to go to school on a beach.
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