The TiVo remote is working! I am back from the dead!

I never got through properly to TiVo, but with some slight measure of intelligence (at last) I checked the website, and found this information to make a remote control any TiVo box:

1. Hold down on the TiVo and PAUSE buttons simultaneously for 5 seconds (until the red LED on the remote lights up).

2. Using the number keys on the remote, enter 0. The remote LED will flash, but the screen will not update.

3. Your remote can now control any Recorder.

It was like magic! It was like getting TiVo for the first time! Maybe I had to lose it to remember to really appreciate it. Which I do! Lots and lots! So I don't have to lose it again to appreciate it again, I swear.

I had a great idea yesterday. I know, I'm full of great ideas, I'm bursting with great ideas, few of which ever come to fruition, but this was a good one.

There is this wonderful poem by Stephen King called Paranoid (A Chant) that I have been doing as a monologue for years, and I thought it would make a great short film! I know I want to do Naked Ambition next, and I still do, but I'm just not ready to figure out the problems of where to shoot and so on, and Paranoid, being a monologue, would be easily shot in a day.

The more I thought about it, the more ideas I had for shots, and how it would cut together all crazy and spinning, and maybe Ed and Jenn could come to town for the day to shoot it, and since I think that a good idea would be to do it in a black box, because though she talks about all these props and things, it might be interestingly even crazier if she were imagining all that as well, and all I'd have to do would be to rent out one of the theatres that LCP works at, and it would be great! Great, I say!

Then I thought I'd look up on the web for the poem to remind me of how it goes, and guess what I found? Someone else already made the goddamn movie! I mean, honestly.

And clearly it's much more full and complex than the version in my head, it's all linear and expensive and stuff, where I was just going to do it with the acting thing, I was going to do it all with just me and editing, this is more, well, real.

Not to mention the fact that the one thing that I have going for me different is that I am a woman doing the role, and it's also with a woman in the role! There's some luck there, huh?

It's on the web, but I'm afraid to watch it, that it might ruin my delivery. Of course, I've been doing it for years and it's pretty set, you know, so maybe...and you know what? It may be a much better film than I would make, but it probably isn't as good as my performance.

Alright, I'll watch it.

You know what? Not bad, quite good, but I'm right, I'm better in the role. It's really super-linear, doing exactly what the poem describes--she says "And the mailers are all lined up on the bed, bloody in the glow of the bar sign next door," and there's the camera, showing the mailers all lined up on the bed, bloody in the glow of the bar sign next door. Yup, there they are.

The one thing that made me laugh, too, was the way the actress said one line, "And somewhere there's a man on a subway sitting under a Black Velvet ad thinking my name," which sounded, due to the emphasis, not as though the man was sitting underneath an advertisement for Black Velvet liquor, but that he was sitting under an advertisement made out of black velvet. Fancy subway!

Maybe I'll still do it after all, but I really wouldn't be able to do much with it, since they made it like a minute ago.

Nobody better make a film of Naked Ambition, that's all I have to say!

Today's horoscope:
It's okay to be a bit needy. When you and a loved one take turns being there for one another, you are both more refreshed for facing the world.

One year ago today:
So that's me, I'm Rainbow Brite!

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