The '10' List 3

Steve Zwilling
02/08/10
CRTW 335


10 Verbal Photographs

1. I had a dream that I was a rock star. I gave up everything for a record deal. I received lots of money and went on tour, but when I went up to play, I could not play an instrument or sing.
2. There is a design in my tile at work that swirls from the inside out like a distorted wind cluster. It gives me an idea for writing an obtuse-minded Psychological thriller.
3. My guitar on strummed on the note C# can make a noise that sounds like something is dying.
4. The gray sky forms an internal cluster below the clouds, which forms a snow globe effect, but without the snow, and with the wind.
5. A man was walking in downtown Detroit after a bar. He held up a sign that stated, “Behold I am a bum, Could I spare you some change?” Fascinated by his grammar, I threw down some change, but second-guessed myself when I left. Was he a faker?
6. Hospital halls, painted in oceans of pale ale paint flood the walls. It looks like I am walking through the alley of a depressing spaceship leading to a melancholy death.
7. I am observed a man today rolling with only one leg in a wheel chair, but he refused any help. He opened a manual set of doors, using his one good leg. I admired his tenacity.
8. Arnold Palmer, for those of you do not know, is a former pro-golfer and a delicious beverage from Arizona Tea Company. Arnold Palmer, on the can, looks like a hung-over Paul Newman, or maybe the other way around.
9. Recently, I could not sleep to the point to where I was hallucinating little images on paper. It may sound crazy, but I was writing to try to write and the words kept swirling together.
10. I had a dream about the first time I kissed a girl. I do not remember her name, but she was taller than I am. I have a problem with women taller than me, so I could imagine the kiss could have went a rye, in some fashion.

10 Treasures

1. “A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding” -Bob Dylan
2. “Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.” -Bob Dylan
3. “Set honour in one eye and death I’ the other, And I will look on both indifferently.” -William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
4. “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” -The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald.
5. “All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
6. “I was following the pack, all swallowed in their coats, with scarves of red tied ‘round their throats, to keep their little heads” -Fleet Foxes
7. “Ok so look I’m seventeen years old, and you’re the last best thing I’ve got going.” -Mountain Goats
8. “The noble and empty spaces were perfect for our purposes.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
9. “There were a lot of situations where men were being evil to women- dominating them and eating their food.” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace
10. “Did she really try? I can’t recall her ever failing to catch anyone she was really fond of” -The Flight of the Pigeons from the Palace


These thoughts and quotes are some of the most influential to my wirting at all compared to the previous too. In this list I have incorporated similar topics than before, but I also put in some more. My dream is a little more avant-garde than the previous ones before. I described everything from music to denial, depression and tenacity, Arnold Palmer and Paul Newman. I like especially that I included Paul Newman into my list. Pal Newman has always been my favorite actor so to be able to include him was very significant to me. The thoughts again have lead to mostly, maybe because Of my deadpan humor, brilliant comedies. I am taking a screenwriting class this semester so these ideas on my list could incorporate to some future pieces of work. The last characteristic that I like about this list is that I incorporate just plain observations from my everyday life that I have not noticed before. My mind has been trained to look out for little details like this.
The quotes are different then the previous one’s of the last two lists. Recently, I read Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare and found a certain quote to really touch home. It reminded me of a true person, someone who really sets himself or herself apart from any other original man. Of course, I had to include some quotes from one of the most proclaimed and one of my favorite authors, F. Scott Fitzgerald. Music was also included because I believe true poetry comes through music. It’s not that other forms do not, but to really touch someone’s so, personally mine, the music behind wonderful words solidifies the experience. Then, I took from The most random quotes from the reading because it’s the smallest quotes that people overpass that mean the most to me.