Someone is on the phone, ordering a pizza. "I want a pepperoni pizza with anchovies." Someone in the other room says, "Wait a minute, I'm a vegetarian." "Oh," says the caller, "no anchovies."
Two people walk side by side down the street, each wearing an "I'm with stupid" shirt, with the arrows pointing outwards.
A better ending for Harold and Maude: Car careens over cliff, crashes. Pause. Pan up to Harold at cliff edge. Long pause, anticipating ending music. Harold dives headfirst over the edge, long fall, lands on neck and shoulder, skids to a quick stop, motionless, dead. Roll credits.
Autobiography by proxy: Interview different people and ask them their impressions of me.
"Next time, guys, we smash the guitars after the gig." "Yeah, that was an awkward 45 minutes."
David Fifield and the Solos. “Fat” Tuesday Reinhart.
The Sleepiest Robot in Christendom. Once upon a time, on a planet near Earth (in fact it was so near Earth that it was Earth), there lived a robot who was in trouble. At night the robot had strange and vivid dreams. A friend named Ugly.
Three pounds of flax on a distaff.
Man and woman, sitting in the moonlight. Man expounds on his love, woman bats her eyelashes.
Man: I wish to honor and love you to the end of my days. I desire to follow you to the ends of the earth. I long—
Woman, suddenly less sophisticated than she appeared: You long? How long are you?
A race whose surviving soldiers are all killed by policy at the end of each war. No career soldiers. No incentive for cowardice in battle. Strong disincentive to being a soldier.
Interactive Tamagotchi-like creature. You can pet it, feed it, etc. No matter how careful you are, you always injure it. Pulling your hand back, anything you do, only makes it worse.
"All lines given" theater production. Director has the only script. Actors must call "line" for each of their lines to discover their roles. May improvise within the director's toleration. Director stops, restarts scenes until they're right. Happens before an audience.
Novel about a multi-century project, carried out by succeeding generations. Goals of project change gradually as human memories die, are passed on. Each generation truly believes in current notion of the project, seeks to keep it pure of corrupting changes (unwittingly preventing the undoing of past changes that deviated from the original mission.) Final goal perhaps very different from original.
Drooping head, mottled brow, a glance askance with eyes most white.
Film the same action 24 times. Interlace each performance with one frame per take.
Mind map triptych.
Female nudes using pen plotter. http://music.columbia.edu/cmc/chiplotle/.
Art exhibit that is a (preannounced) deadly trap--everyone who enters it dies.