A quote from an oft-forgotten but too-quickly-spoken-about-once-remembered movie, Road Trip, goes along something to the likes of (thank you IMDb), "Yeah, I can teach Japanese to a monkey in 46 hours. They key is just finding a way to relate to the material." The pronounced pothead character of the movie teaches the main guy ancient philosophy by relating all of the figures and philosophies to WWF wrestling and the characters and plotlines therein. I always liked the idea of this but was basically too lazy or a little suspicious that the tactic might make me have to do extra work to learn the material at hand. Either way, most of my material-learning days are over for now, and I'm thinking of using a similary method for a separate purpose, that of getting through the day in a completely mundane and yet-to-have-an-anlogy-applied-to-it-to-make-it-more-interesting environment.
Today I am Batman. I am Bruce Wayne and I am Batman. Danny Elfman tells me this, and Hans Zimmer tell me this. My cubicle = my mansion. The bathroom stall = the batcave. Matt, the guy two cubes over is Robin, and we take on the scum that thrive in the system of ENERGY STAR for Buildings. Each building is a criminal with a record, which we review, and every once in a while release from Arkham Asylum (the On-Hold folders) into the world once rehabilitated - not that I do that task all that much, that's more for the police (the rest of Cadmus on ENERGY STAR team). But when they try to slip applications by us and cheat justice, we slam down on the on-hold applications and lock them the hell up.
Soundtracks are key in immersing yourself in a fantasy at work. Labeling people as characters works really well too. Coming up with a good and evil always helps tear up the gray areas of the office life. I'm going deep in on this one, see you guys when I wake up.
See ya in six weeks, bro!
ReplyDeleteI probably occasionally do this too. I think I used to do it A LOT more, back when I seemed to have more imagination. It's a good idea, because I feel like office life is slowly (not really...it's been what? 8 months?) destroying all shreds I have left of any sort of imagination. I did this with a lot of fantasy stuff, because that will always be my go-to, geeked-out genre.
My life's interesting enough as is, d00d! I don't need childish fantasy in it. During the day, I work really fucking hard at a high-pressure job, and I network my ass off. After hours, I get mad fucked-up on shots. On the weekends, I do extreme sports you've never even heard of. My life is more exciting than any of those movies you watch.
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