keeping up appearances

[spatch]

1. Watching an arrest from the crowd.
2. Walking past a tennis court.
3. Reading a book in the subway, pestered by a small boy.
4. Walking past the house where the murder took place.
5. Tossing some litter near a theater.
6. Holding a camera outside the courthouse.
7. Smoking a cigarette in Victoria station.
8. Walking past a phone booth.
9. Reading a newspaper.
10. Walking by outside.
11. Mailing a letter.
12. Standing in front of a drugstore.
13. Playing cards on the train to Santa Rosa.
14. Appearing in a newspaper ad.
15. Emerging from an elevator, carrying a violin case.
16. Drinking champagne at a swank party.
17. Leaving the train at Cumberland Station. Carrying a cello.
18. Appearing, in profile, on a neon sign.
19. Watching a parade in the town square.
20. Looking at a maid in disguise.
21. Boarding a train with a double bass.
22. Crossing the top of a staircase.
23. Appearing in a class reunion photo.
24. Winding the clock in the songwriter's apartment.
25. Sitting on a bus.
26. Walking past a parked limousine.
27. Watching acrobats in the Moroccan marketplace.
28. Narrating the prologue.
29. Walking by the shipyard.
30. Missing a bus.
31. Wearing a cowboy hat.
32. Leaving a pet shop with two white terriers.
33. Walking down a hotel corridor.
34. Sitting in a hotel lobby, holding a baby.
35. Riding a wheelchair in the airport (getting up and walking away afterwards)
36. Refusing to applaud the speaker.
37. Appearing in silhouette through the door of the Registrar of Births and Deaths.

Comments

[maren.livejournal.com]

you know it took me until #24 to realize what this was all about.

incidentally, someone else on my friends list had posted earlier today "50 things i love" and at first, i thought it was a meme of some sort you were copying.

and when you look at it like that, it's incredibly poetic of you.

not that i don't still love "rear window".

[pecosy.livejournal.com]

It took me until #32!

[cheezdanish.livejournal.com]

I knew it was an "background actor" thingo, but I didn't know who.

I get it, now. Yet another reason why Spatch rocks.

[ctartchick.livejournal.com]

I had to read it through twice, and even now I'm not entirely sure I'm right. But then, I'm not as big a movie watcher as I pretend to be. :-/

[hemlock-martini.livejournal.com]

I thought it was a textual retelling of Ogdred Weary's "The Tale of the Purloined Bumbershoot." But then again I don't know a damned thing about nothing.

[terras.livejournal.com]

#21 did it for me, although I should have recognized #13. Both for the US and UK versions. I highly recommend the DVD.

Made my day.

[spatch]

and when you look at it like that, it's incredibly poetic of you.

It's got a wonderful cryptic ring to it -- especially with the verbs what end in -ing.

[betweenstations.livejournal.com]

You're something of a poet, Rob.

Although you'll probably find the concept odd.

I find a strange sort of Berryman vibe to Abbie's writings.