Chris Ernest Hall: September 2007 Archives

Jake is seemingly a ladies man, but deep down needs to be more in a relationship.

Tim is very concerned with morality, but also afraid of commitment. He doesn’t really want to be in a relationship, just sexual experience.

The deadhead stoner character is also one of the smartest and hardest studying. (Name? Davey? Pete?)

Lana is a deadhead girl, but with an odd twist (which is what? She’s a neat freak? compulsive?) Maybe Lana is Asian? Asian neat-freak deadhead chick.

Sophie is the other deadhead girl, whose parents are fabulously wealthy, but she never reveals it. Also a member of minor European royalty.

Helen: beautiful but strangely genuine. Millenia of loss have made her compassionate but also wary. She is careful of getting too close to anyone, and will only sleep with those she knows will not fall in love with her.

Jessica is a "good Jewish girl" but also a stoner and partier, with a somewhat anarchic sense of humor.

The episode where Judas is revealed for who he is truly is revolves around a trip to see U2 in San Francisco. 

Another plotline: Tim and Lana keep almost hooking up, but mysterious, bizarre events prevent them from having sex. 

The first night after everyone moves into the dorms, and wild partying erupts. A rivalry develops over the most beautiful girl on the floor, Helen, but just when things seem most tense, Tim steps in and brings peace, and everyone becomes friends. 

Hour-long drama set in a northern California university in the late 80s, but with supernatural elements. One of the freshman girls is actually Helen of Troy. And one of the guys is Judas Iscariot. Doomed to immortality until they can commit the act that will set them free. Lots of other mysterious things happen too. Lots of characters. Hilarious beer drinking and stoner jokes as well. 

Aron and Sam’s father married Mathilda (Aron’s mother)  but she left the father when Aron was quite young to return to Louisiana. Afte that the father married Sam’s mother, whom Aron hated.  When Sam was just two, her mother drowned in the river under mysterious circumstances. After Sam’s mother died, her father “went strange” and became morose, bitter and tight-fisted.

what does it symbolize to Samantha?

In Ulysses the tower symbolizes, among other things, consciousness, the ego.

It is, of course, a phallic symbol.

Tim: his dream of creative freedom
Helen: escape/distraction from her life
Michael: his fear of the senselessness of life

What does Karen think of Crazy For Love? I'm not sure, which means I don't really know her character yet. She thinks it makes light of child sexual abuse, which hits ome with her since she knew someone who was abused growing up.

Jessica thinks Crazy For Love is too violent. Gretchen thinks it's a male fantasy. Jake thinks it's funny.

And Mick? Probably views it like Tim does.

Tim  think it's sexual desire. For Michael it's violent chaos. Gretchen thinks the garden of Eden myth is a rape fantasy. As for Helen... maybe it's romantic love? Helen remembers the edenic time spring quarter before Tim wigged out with jealousy, when she was in a relationship but long-distance.

For Mick: repression? He would welcome the snake in the garden.

"The snake is love" -- should Tim say this?

Should it be in Part I? Or save that for Part II?

I'm thinking of saving the scene with Joseph Harkes for Part II. So in Part I, we just set up Helen's friendship with her female friends (Roxy, Jessica and Gretchen) and her section. In Part II we see her with her Alta Lara friends (Jake, Peter and the rest of the claimstake, along with George) and her relationship with her professor Joseph Harkes.