it's 2:32 am, on March 13, 2003 - profiling sells.
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If I were to write a book.
Not, the book that I want to write eventually. Not, this is what I want to write. But, if I were to write a book. This is what it would include.
There would be a murder case. A serial murderer case, even. There would be a profiler in it, I'm sure, and there would be a reporter, maybe. There would be a lot of news people. a lot of news reports. And there would be fear.
See, Doqz says that I'm obsessed with serial murderers. But I'm not. The behaviors of the killers themselves, that's not what interests me. It's the ways in which dealing with them affects other people that I'm obsessed with. The best scenes -- the most affecting scenes -- in Red Dragon are, of course, scenes with Ed Norton in them, not Ralph Fiennes.
What does having to look at the world like that do to a person? Oklahoma kind of deals with that. The question of, what kind of things does it do to a person to have to look at people, profile them, day in and day out? can you even get away from that mindset? Can you ever look at a situation and not think 'this is how to break it down'?
It's kind of like the old, research student being so obsessive about their research that they can't get away from it. Only instead of ending up with a mildly eccentric obsession with Johnathan Swift, you can't turn around without wondering who is capable of murder.
in a part of Oklahoma, that I always liked, someone's describing Mulder. And -- I think it's his partner -- he tells another officer that Mulder could say "stop the car" and find a new murder victim. He was so good at profiling, his partner said, that he used to be able to guess where they'd dump the bodies.
You probably can't get away from that.
This book, as well as being the neverending, unrelentless bid to profile the world, would also be about celebrity. Because that's what celebrity really is -- it's mass profiling. I mean, when I research Justin Timberlake, how is that different from trying to profile a serial murderer? The subject matter is oh so different, but the methodology is one and the same.
Such a thin line, as Bruce Payne says.
So hypothetically, this book would be about that. The problem is, we've already written that story, it's just un-publishable and completely non-profit, and will continue to be so until Justin Timberlake is dead. Because that fic? the more people click on that link, the more people read it and the more it gets talked about -- the more art it generates. it's self-generating, and it's scary. 2188 hits on the index page of that story. People have viewed the first page of that story over two thousand times.
Celebrity sells. media sells. --profiling sells.
Unfortunately not for money. Plus, the cult of timberlake story is very genre-oriented; most audiences probably wouldn't go for it. you have to understand the subculture that it was created in, and modern media isn't it. The slash community on livejournal is a small, small set of a much larger media.
This book, then, that I may hypothetically write and has really already been written, is kind of a write-off before I even begin. I mean, how can I work all of this into a straight narrative to be bought and sold in paperback? The beauty of the cult story was it was a mixed-media production, internet and radio interviews and tv appearances, and rumors and gossip and pictures. And only a tiny fraction of what went into the actual story was written by us. the rest, Justin did all on his lonesome. We just helped out thematically.
So this if I were to write a book stuff, it's all pretty much a moot point. Seeing as how it can't tap into the mixed-media format which pop culture is so fond of lately, and because kel and I, we already wrote it.
Maybe I'll make a movie instead.
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