Conceptual novelization is the literature where the idea of the novel is the novel. The conception is at once the origin and the end result. As such, conceptual novelization exists at the exact point where writer and audience meet, making it the most transparent of genres. At its best it works the way telepathy does, creating instant and perfect communication between writer and reader (or “thinker”). Conceptual novelization is the only writing that expresses, through direct appropriation or other means, the pure and unadulterated idea of itself.
Todd Van Buskirk is interested appropriation because he works two jobs. He has adapted to a way of making art that takes less time and less thought so he can balance his life between employment and personal existence. He had to put the “corporation first” over his artistic fulfillment. As composer Charles Ives wrote, “I can’t feed my family on dissonances.” Van Buskirk’s economic reality informs his art. Working over 60 hours a week dictates how he works on art. Out of necessity Van Buskirk’s work schedule turned him into a conceptual artist. Van Buskirk says, “Two jobs are so demanding that it’s easier to THINK about art than do art.”
This novel is a rearrangement of a favorite screenplay of the author, with names and places changed as needed, to describe the inner workings of the subjective mind, while watching a movie.
Self Portrait Continued
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August 8, 1991
48. 71. INT. HALLWAY BELOW THE TRAILER - PICTURE We watch from a conspiratorial giggle over one hand and beyond her badly. Leo holds her. She walks into hell. 195. INT. VAN BUSKIRK HOUSE - LATER Both nod to ROCHELLE I haven't touched a woman named Hennepin, Nicollet, Marquette. CLIFF Maybe I love it. I didn't see you? My god, I showed him. CABLE Now, J. Edgar doin'? ED (moving around, trying to it? DOC VAN BUSKIRK (after a tear in the dance floor. Teetering she was fresh ground coffee cup. ROCHELLE Do you one found those splinters without a big bag around the night you get the counter. The red neon letters: "PARTYLAND" CONTINUED: JOSIE Fish eyes? VAN BUSKIRKs eyes widen, terrified with distorted smiles. God stares into the arm) We have to you. GOD'S VOICE I got the ground. He looked down the body anywhere. MORTEN (confused and the SPACE The fan then Winkels walks off. Cable is pinching) Did you can start to its glory. On screen it out of your homework? GOD (subtitled) Thus time though. Ask Irene comes by grabbing him the tree in my picture?... Okay, come and Rochelle goes out the girls' SPACE. Stay on the picture. 95. EXT. HIGHWAY 21 Slowly a lot staring at him, I just can't, James. It sure you're not let your hair that Rochelle stumbles and he tosses the Rochester where did you a pinecone. They are you have our way, don't we, Agent Winkels? (motioning to the picture on Rochelle. DISSOLVE TO: 111. INT. HALLWAY BELOW THE DOORWAY OF TROPHY CASE - DAY SHERIFF CABLE Well, honey, you can I guess it was here. STANLEY I'll sit quietly. (coming back of her around. Under a chair facing him. CABLE How interesting. I better dust this what I better hurry up and with pleasure) Oh, Rochelle's left arm, but notice a terrible slap. GOD It's for a nerve. I slipped and Stanley zips up from her private diary, Harold. Her clock on earth. ROCHELLE James... ROCHELLE (studies Rochelle) I'm sorry. ROCHELLE Sit down... sit down, but no one thing: Judy is wearing had a case has noticed a look. The friend who is doing out her mouth. She pretends to yell, but everything. WINKELS (continued) scrub the body of coffee from Winkels) There on a magician's handkerchief. With Rochelle turns the party starts towards the darkness the window and puts it was your help, Carl. Sorry we did. It takes a dream. JOHNNY Happy Birthday, Johnny. JAMES See what? There's no one seems to the floor a glimpse of the trailer court one here. HAROLD What do something to bed. ON THE VAN BUSKIRK. JACK (continued) How are going to her? JEFFRIES They are you desperate, baby? INTERCUT WITH: 188. INT. VAN BUSKIRK the Norwegians. (more) (CONTINUED) **
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60. 91. 145. CONTINUED: (small smile) Because God starts to her. She gives him hard and shows his smile walks off. Shelly comes out a clown. Winkels guides his rear view mirror. The Great Went". Buck dances around to her SPACE - NIGHT Sheriff Cable is she left by Cliff tries to see _ROCHELLE/ROCHELLE'S_RING_ on Wheels". ED You always hurt the Diner with the bike's horn. After a regulation body is what happened to hustle to come in. 177. EXT. PHILADELPHIA PUBLIC LIBRARY - LATER A turkey dog bounds about. 138. EXT. VAN BUSKIRK, MEET YOU SAID, ROCHELLE? GOD Babe, I'm in that body back into his gun. BANG!! God stares at the kitchen. He bangs on the night. SARAH They walk to give Rochelle stops Stanley rides along way in and he stands in the last week. You made the brings over the Norwegians. SARAH (continued) And I heard a GOD DAMN NEAR TWO very dreamy) He stands and becomes preoccupied with his pajamas, lies on the screen Jeffries walks over to be like breathing. The static begins to Jim's office, furniture included, is dark blur. ROCHELLE (she sighs to Rochelle. They both begin to get the day with his hand is reading aloud to the prospects of pain. LUCY'S VOICE That's not very small reception area. At the noise. The glass protecting it. AT WINKELS'S CAR - leaving Mrs. Tremond's grandson is seeing Rochelle reaches up to stop sign hangs up from here at this deer like to see the stairs towards the woods. We throw away from J. Edgar, I'm your stay here any coffee, Eddie. Nadine dives toward Rochelle changes directions. Mike could ever need a steel bar away. Rochelle Van Buskirk is like this. He divides. One who looks at Johnny's party starts the intercom. The girls shudder in from her knees, out a look and runs to raise someone else did it easy. Rochelle Van Buskirk. She is suddenly looks at him. (after a long swig and do it. But it with the red neon letters: "PARTYLAND" CONTINUED: (2) Laughingly, Rochelle now sticking to the party with an awful lot around the van back to be there. He answers the Deputy's eyes off again. He knows how to face. IN HER SPACE to see a stop. Several big clown laugh. Rochelle is doing calling from school. Rochelle Van Buskirk was murdered? IRENE No. GOD'S VOICE CAN'T HAVE ME. (to camera) Don't tie Rochelle runs back of the party with her? ROCHELLE AND ROCHELLE (smiling her ring in unison. IRENE No. ROCHELLE Where's my ass! Santa Maria, where did you get the Norwegians. SARAH Rochelle at the cold on the white horse in her arms back. ROCHELLE I'm gonna get the Blue Rose cases. The name is in front window. No answer - NIGHT Rochelle stumbles outside. He swings in the fan. She asked too dumb to their names were? ROCHELLE (continued) PHILLIP, LET'S CALM DOWN AND SARAH'S BEDSPACE - NIGHT Rochelle/God lowers the Bible) Robert, put it pulls out of morning sound is burning. 218. EXT. VAN BUSKIRK ENTERS THE CAR - INTERCUT WITH: 188. INT. THE SCENE. Gerard arrives at Rochelle crush Rochelle pulls her. She closes the van back to Stanley zips up some more. Sarah and saw him the Man From Another Place puts it is, then more. Sarah and even asked too adorable... ROCHELLE Dad, are you can hear you get out of a good eye and they all this, I love me right over his nose, appears just behind her left foot. VAN BUSKIRK and have our homework. ROCHELLE You lied to see her a woman and loosened his pockets for the picture) She answers the other hand and hangs announcing in my badge, here. Do you doing? VAN BUSKIRK starts the fan ominously whirls in on the house? How do a Heimlich maneuver. I shot from the picture of shorthand. GOD Oh, Rochelle's portrait in the best friend? Rochelle begins to rev his eyes. JEFFRIES (embarrassed) Dad. WINKELS ROCHELLE But I never sit in silence for the dark on a moment, with VAN BUSKIRK stares into a look, then you're not saying Blue Diamond City Motel... Yes, that's what in the wall that she moves her hand. As Winkels and Stanley says this deer like a great explorers were found the head straining to do. 197. EXT. MORGUE - SAME Rochelle points to check that. I mean... I'm gone... long hike Bernie has gone ice cold. (turning back) That's not the Federal Bureau of the counter and on the hell to get the window of us to be like this country. For a country road. We see each other's eyes. JEFFRIES May? 1989? CLOSEUP: ROCHELLE School? WINKELS Ever see the trailer? (flat) God... ssshhhh... you ever kill me? ED STANLEY Solved the window and notices. ED You know, I changed your fucking caring. He was that? ROCHELLE Oh god, that obviously must be exact. Leo puts it easy. Rochelle starts for Bernie. MORTEN HE'S GONE FOR YOU, CHET. WINKELS (still smiling) Oh. Stanley studies her seat. STANLEY (continued) Yes... INTERCUT WITH: ROCHELLE Rochelle Van Buskirk. Rochelle gets it. AT THE SCENE. Gerard reaches out to the SPACE The trees... the trailer. VAN BUSKIRK body into a fifty with another yodel. The corridor is amazed to be exact. Leo looks again over and gets out. He was murdered? IRENE comes up from the God Lady touches it, VAN BUSKIRK body back and leans in white water and a while. Winkels and washes her milk Rochelle comes here, Sheriff Cable. Cliff get here to page one of a stop. JOHNNY Happy Birthday, Johnny. ROCHELLE You know you haven't got a woman and Sarah sees a while the bourbon) Let me about? God and paranoia) What the side of the Deputy's eyes to hustle to the van with some bushes and the SPACE Rochelle goes to oblivion. Rochelle and that was looking for that body back to a line. The operative word association. The trees... the roast beef have visitors? GOD (whispers) Are you mean? GOD BRIGGS HOUSE Rochelle Van Buskirk is beckoning us to catch up there. VAN BUSKIRK HOUSE, LIVING SPACE - DAY Winkels and lifts Rochelle drifts off. Shelly gathers up and Rochelle. ROCHELLE James... Yes, it's okay with him. Oh, quit crying. The SPACE - DAY Rochelle looks like this... (CONTINUED) **
- Todd Van Buskirk
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