January 31, 2010

FADE IN:

INT. INGRAM KITCHEN - EARLY EVENING

The room is dark.  There is a soft glow from the nearby family room where the parents, PA and MUM, sit, softly discussing a 1958 movie involving dizziness and James Stewart.  In the near darkness sit our main protagonists, their faces illuminated by the screen light of her Macbook Pro. Her face beautiful and inviting...a grin that melts the heart and mercury...GRACE, her fiancee ANTHONY sits by looking at her endearingly as they make an attempt at this first blog post together. 

ANTHONY
Is this fine?

GRACE
Yes.

ANTHONY
You sure?

GRACE
Ye--mhm...

ANTHONY
Not just saying that...?

GRACE
It's fine.

The two look at each other with sincere affection only to be taken out of it by the squeal of a fat, white pig...a rare feline breed...a sassy fluff ball. Others call her KLAUS, they call her "fluff ball". PA comforts her as usual, adjusting himself in his own chair and rubbing her head adoringly as if she were bread needing to be kneaded 43 times a day. 

GRACE
Mom, what should we talk about?

PA
How about your interests?

GRACE
Mom, how your voice has changed.

PA chuckles.

PA
I thought it was just a general question

GRACE
I clearly started the question with "Mom"

MUM
He just has selective hearing, don't mind him

PA
What?

GRACE, ANTHONY, PA, and MUM share an amused laugh that lasts all of two milliseconds. 

MUM
Tell them about the Camry, your old, dying car with a cracked windshield

(Note:  if anyone would like to donate to our car fund, we'd gladly appreciate it and probably give you a credit in our upcoming film "JINX" - shameless plug here - )

ANTHONY
We should do our counseling book

GRACE
Huh?

ANTHONY
Right here (pats cover of book)

ANTHONY stares lovingly into GRACE'S face, as he does every day.

GRACE
So...

ANTHONY
Unit 1, we can work on Unit 1.

GRACE gives ANTHONY the look of "All Work and No Play" makes me go nutty. So he taps the book once more and they decide to take a crack at it. 

GRACE
Hey, maybe we should get an iPad

ANTHONY
That's a dumb idea...it's just a giant iTouch

GRACE
But they spent so many years coming up with the idea...didn't they?

BLACKOUT



Years?  Or just a few hours...?  You decide.

3 comments:

  1. Did you have to insult my cat on the WWW by calling her a pig?? And it's not squealing, she's pretending she's a lion.

    Nice blog, BTW.

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  2. LOL

    Notes: Invitations go out the beginning of March.
    Your counter in the sidebar isn't showing anything. Is it supposed to?

    Mom (aka Mum)

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