6.22.2011

Truths & Observations for Creative Success

Alt Publishing

If starting a hip women’s magazine, in order to be opposite of the usual Cosmo/Glamour style fluff, be sure to photograph, refer to, and interview the following five women as if they were the five elements that make up air:

  • Kim Gordon  (nitrogen)
  • Miranda July  (carbon)
  • Chloe Sevingy (argon)
  • Tina Fey (oxygen)
  • Zoe Deschanel (small traces of other stuff)

Don’t worry about finding other successful women, the pool is very small and some of the others are fat and unfashionable.

Movies

Assuming we can’t all make a superhero movie…

No matter what your story, it is best if you can use banjo music over any kind of slow motion. If you have to show something violent use some kind of female vocals/tribal moaning or chanting and of course, slow motion. 

Poor people are interesting. Poor people in the south are Oscar material.

Girls in underwear are sure box office draws. Unshapely girls in underwear are brave and artistic.

Music

I’m no expert but it seems like there is one easy formula for success: Scrap original songwriting and just sing a Slayer song in a new folksy arrangement.

Literature

If you aren’t writing a sweeping historical novel you better hope you are working on something that includes a PowerPoint!

 

That’s all I have for now. Let me know how it goes.

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