I'm not good with titles. At all. I'll probably name my first born after whatever is right in front of me, so don't be surprised if one of my kids is named Bed Pan Larsen.
That said, I figured I should give a little back story as to why "Chupacabra" is entitled "Chupacabra." Back in October of '07 when Radiohead released their latest album, I became instantly obsessed with this one line from the track "Faust Arp." During the second verse, I thought I heard Thom Yorke sing about "Chupacabras." Turns out he was saying "duplicate and triplicate," but based on his tendency to mumble his lyrics, a mistake is bound to happen. Anyway, I didn't know much about Chupacabras apart from a vague notion that they were the Latino equivalent of Bigfoot. So I decided to do a little research, and ended up on El Chupacabra's Wikipedia page. While reading the entry, one quote stuck out beyond all others: "El Chupacabras also symbolizes the fear of something that doesn't exist."
And then it was decided. I was going to write a script entitled "Chupacabra" despite the fact that I had no idea what the story was going to be about. I was just going to use that one quote as inspiration. Then everything started coming to me...
But I'll get into that next time. For now, a brief history of El Chupacabra to the strains of Kanye West's "Jesus Walks."
2 comments:
I still sing it as "chupacabra" every time I hear the song. There's also a line where he says "Watch, you ought to," which I hear as "Watch Uatu," which you should know as the name of the Watcher from the Marvel Comics universe. Davidson agrees.
Looking forward to reading this, it's been far too long since your last teleplay was produced.
-Buell
Of course, Thom used "Jacknife Powerbomb" in the lyrics for Airbag.
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