JONATHAN That was fun yesterday getting to spotlight some of our readers! Here's a totally random exercise, inspired in great part by me just re-watching the "These have always brought me luck," Elizabeth Taylor White Diamonds commercial. Let's pretend that you have your own perfume. What would it be called? What would it smell like? And what would the commercial be like?
BETHANY I think it would be called Eau de Sandpiper. It would smell like a combination of the delicious scents wafting from Helen's lunch counter and the scent of burning rubber as a plane touches down on a runway. The commercial would be Rebecca Schull in an evening gown, leaning over mysteriously, holding a bottle of Eau de Sandpiper and then simply whispering, "Consider..." How about you? Same question.
JONATHAN "3 am"...featuring hints of matchboxes, evening rain, and Monopoly money flying into the night sky. The kind of cologne your mother would kick out of the house. The commercial would open on a broken promise, then the tears of a woman named Hohete, then a mysterious and judgmental blonde named Anna coolly glaring into the camera. Then, footsteps on the basement stairs, and a single disapproving syllable spoken by an unseen middle-aged figure.
BETHANY Wow. I got chills. That's the kind of cologne the world needs. It's full of disappointment and broken dreams. I think the background music should be Janis Joplin's Mercedes Benz.
JONATHAN Yes! That would be perfect. And the bottle: the color of freshly bruised arms. Maybe C.D. Cat Lover can get some for her father's birthday?
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