The Way We Almost Were
So I’ve been digging, ladies and gentlemen. Oh yes, I have been digging. Digging through the ashes and bones and sometimes literal garbage of my past lives. I have been doing this not to remember or to forget, but just to get away. It’s a whole thing and I don’t really want to go into it. If you follow me on twitter (and what the unholy fuck is wrong with you if you don’t?) then you’ve heard about this and you’ve heard some of the songs I’ve discovered from days long gone and best remembered only now and then. For example, I’m currently listening to Biff Naked as I type this. Anyone remember that chick? Craxy, right? Wonder what she’s doing right now.
Anyway.
I’ve probably got a whole blog of songs that got me here somewhere inside of me but that’s not what this is. This is something far more embarrassing. And don’t ever say I love me more than I love each of you, because I’m gonna look, at least mostly, like a fool by the end of this blog. Because tonight, just a few hours ago, really, I came across a list of possible titles for my first moving-picture, “For Catherine.”
Some of you may know this and others may not, but FC was originally titled simply, “207.” Then I went and changed just about every word of that script and it no longer seemed to fit for whatever reason. The title that I went with ended up coming simply from the dedication page. The title page to my script was ripped off and so whenever I looked at my script the first thing I saw was, “For Catherine.” And, eventually, it just stuck.
Before it stuck, though, I used to make lists every few weeks of possible titles. The list I’ve just found is mostly comprised of stolen lyrics from Counting Crows songs and I have no defense for that. So…yeah. For those of you who never liked the title of my movie, and I’ve heard from several of you, read this and bear in mind it could have been much worse.
Here we go:
The Way Things Be in 207 (Note: It gets even worse)
Everyday Regrets
Walkaways
Citizen Duo
207 Kids
Greenlit Cigarettes
Why the Clash is the Most Underrated Band in the History of Music (Note: Actually I love this title. It’s just that I’m the only one. I’ve tried to give three or four projects this name and, dammit, it’s gonna stick one day.)
If We Were Silver
Barely Out of Tuesday
Certain Seasons
Just a Girl
Fade Out
Colours Start to Fade
Seasons in a Letter
Left in a Letter
Black and Blue
Here Until You Leave
Familiar Positions
Toxicity
The Goodnight Girl
Down
Redemption in Reverse
So…yeah.
In my defense these lists were meant to be stream of consciousness sketches and that. Still…wow.
Anyway, thought some of you might enjoy that.
Get a beverage of your choice and if you can’t laugh at yourself, laugh at me,
E
never pay the reaper with love only…
December 22nd, 2009 at 1:57 am
I remember you writing these lists. I remember “Why the Clash…” and I remember you defending it and trying to use it for everything. I also seem to remember “Walkaways.” Was that one you had more seriously considered? And of course I remember you constantly “borrowing” from Adam Duritz. Ah 207Z. Good times.
December 22nd, 2009 at 3:41 am
Yeah, I think I did dig on Walkaways. It’s a pretty hip title for FC, but it’s a Counting Crows song, so I couldn’t bring myself to “borrow” that heavily. Good times indeed.