A Day In The Life: Cronenberg Style
I don't so much wake up as hatch from the fetus cradle that
is suspended over our bed. The amniotic fluid splashes over
my partner causing her to squeal and squirm, sometimes the cradle
ruptures too far and I have to change the sheets, but on this
occasion I manage to just get it all over her hair and face.
As she goes upstairs and prepares some toast for me I swallow
the mouse and check my e-mails, using my stomach muscles and
bile as a conductive interface manipulator. Spam is easier to
deal with when each mail requires an identifier tooth receipt
be sent by the sender. I have automatic filtering bioware that
checks the teeth against dental records and rejects mails sent
without tooth identifiers.
Usually my mornings consist of checking script details and
set reports. Either way I tend to force myself to vomit onto
the clipboards my assistants hold before me, allowing them to
take this as a good sign or a bad. I trust the people I work
with to make the right decisions.
Lunch is a greek salad and a glass of vitreous humur extracted
from the eyeballs of Ukranian sheep, this is both good for my
colon and the fortunes of the Ukranian Wool Exchange who spend
less time catching the blind sheep and turning them into sweaters.
My afternoon consists of vetting actresses based on my "Debbie
Harry androgeny" scale of whether or not I would want to
screw them and enjoy a beer with them, and watching the rushes
from the day's filming. We have a wonderful set designer on
the current production, I found him living inside his very own
putrid meat cathedral in the middle east rolling around in mounds
of dead flies. I had to win a bidding war against Robert Englund's
interior decorator and Stephen King's agent to sign him up but
after some language coaching and basic toilet training he seems
to be doing a fantastic job.
I've already heard industry insiders saying that my retelling
of Bambi, tentatively titled "Veal Before The One You Serve"
could well be up for a Fangoria "Best Picture" award.
My evenings are usually a mix of picking the marrow out of
shattered vertebre and watching CSI for ideas before my partner
reseals me inside my womb for the night and tops up the fluid
levels. |