THIRD

This is one of those days when Mark Peregrino is in the mood to write a story that could be dubbed as the saddest and/or the most depressing tale of the year a la Million Dollar Baby. It's just one of those days when the self-proclaimed wonder boy wants to write a tragedy as in the likes of Gone with the Wind and Casablanca. I don't know exactly why he would want to do that. Perhaps it's just his lame excuse to deal with his emotions, whatever they may be via the usual writer's/artist's escapism. I don't want to judge him because he's my friend. Perhaps the best we could do is to hope that he would bear something fruitful in the solitary confinement he is undertaking right now. Inasmuch as he bars the rest of the society, let's just pray that the grump wouldn't end up insane as you are being witness to the first stage of this emo-lution.

(Hahaha)

This is inspired by an idea presented in the film Adaptation. (Yes, that film where screenwriter Charlie Kaufman wrote a screenplay about himself and his fictional twin as 'they' were adapting the non-fiction book The Orchid Thief. Strangely, he and his fictional brother were nominated in that year's Academy Awards for Best Adapted Screenplay; I guess it was the first time a fictitious character was ever nominated for the award or any category for that matter. And that I'd love to experience sometime in the near future.)