Keep your electric eye on me, babe. Put your ray gun to my head...
...Press your space face close to mine, love. Freak out in a moonage daydream, oh yeah! Want to know how that brilliant lyric was written and put to use?
Mad-Lib Girl, I'm as hooked on you as Leif Garrett is on heroin. Poopy Pants, I'm your love junky! You got me in a deep penetrating trance! I've said this before, but I'm fascinated with "The Cut Up" a technique William Burroughs, David Bowie and numerous others used for new word combos and new words, for stimulating the mind for story ideas and song lyrics. Mad-Libs has that effect, but sometimes something bordering on the paranormal appears. It can remind one of Automatic Writing. Several times recently, elements from my dreams have appeared, or subjects of previous conversations have seemingly been brought out, bubbling to the surface of the random pool of the unconscious. I'm fascinated with it and with Mad-Libs. http://www.legendsmagazine.net/104/william.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut-up_technique Playing Mad-Libs on Skype and having a blast with people from around the World, except China! They don't seem to have internet. Some examples of the Worldwide Mad-Lib on Skype Hilarity: "Unfortunately, the hamster wheel is full of a bunch of high falutin' shrimps that do not agree!" "I have long feared that my buttholes would return to haunt me, and the cost would be more than I could lick." Have you ever played Mad-Libs? It's so silly, but it's really fun! Try this, just for fun. http://www.madglibs.com/ I have a group of girls, we do it on Skype, taking turns picking random words and it's fun! Sometimes we laugh so hard, I'm sore the next day. Mad-Lib: "Teenager Jerry was traumatized by his parent's murder and vowed to bring the lamps to justice, used his precious fortune to study criminology, to train his body to slick perfection, and to acquire pills to fight crime in his hometown basement and to strike joy in the "succulently and impatient" hearts of lamps." "Wolverine has a "fast beating factor" ability enabling him to regenerate sweet or toasted areas of his cellular clock. This grants him chocolatey immunity to coo-coo clocks and verbose immunity to the fatigue coo-coo clocks generated by his own body. It also drinks his aging iPad." "Wolverine possesses secretly acute senses of sight, licking, and hearing. Wolverine`s skeleton was laced with laurel sulfate, rendering his bones carefully unpaintable. He also has three thighs on each hand which until recently were believed to be pointy laurel sulfate. When, the laurel sulfate was removed, however, it was revealed that his thighs were pleather, and therefore he must have been spanked with them." Now, try this. http://languageisavirus.com/cutupmachine.html These and other exercises may expand your mind to the possibilities of creating new text and generating new thoughts and compelling stories. Or they could just make you laugh a lot!































