Month: January 2018

‘Toady’ — #Lyrics To Pop-Rock Song

This is just me bitching about Stephen Miller, Trump’s little toady. I’m angry about the situation in general and I’m venting.

Toady
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

he’s a little twerp
runs the president like a jerk
disrupts work of the people
thinking he can close Ellis Island’s doors for keeps
wants to grow up to be Goebbels
what are we to do
what are we to do

toady
that’s you little Stevie
you’re a toady it’s true
toady
what are you going to do?
what are you going to do?

thinks he’s got all the answers
thinks he can run the show don’t you know
but we all know he’s just a toady
he can huff and puff all he wants
in the end he’s through

the people will rise up in time
to make little Stevie eat our cake
we’re all in a rage for his head
one day it’ll arrive in haste
just you wait and see

toady
that’s you little Stevie
you’re a toady it’s true
toady
what are you going to do?
what are you going to do?

[bridge]
when this is all over
what are you going to do
go back under the rock
where you once lived
that’s my guess

now let’s go to the polls
we’re soon going to be on a roll
vote the Republicans out of office
we’ve got to, we’ve got to

‘Laid’ — #Lyrics To A Woke Pop-Rock-Rap Song

This is my attempt to write a Kanye West type song. I’m kind of full of rage about someone telling me to just enjoy the “humming” economy and get laid while Trump destroys the nation I love, so this is my attempt to, in verse, give a response. I have no beats and think of this as a first draft, but I think the concept is strong, if nothing else.

Laid
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

you tell me to enjoy the humming economy
get laid and forget it all

this is crazy, motherfucker
this is crazy can’t you see
Trump is destroying the nation we both love
you want me to flee but I won’t
you tell me to enjoy the hum job
that I’m forced to give
not going to slob Trump’s knob
I’m nobody’s bitch and I don’t snitch
I’m going to fight on the beaches
till the blood is drained from my body
there’s nothing you can say or do
to prevent me from going to the polls

you tell me just to get laid
you tell me just to get laid
like any woman I was with
wouldn’t want to give Trump a fit

the humming economy is Obama’s
I’m not going to slob Trump’s knob
fuck Trump and his ilk
why they tax the solar panels
as the world burns
we’re all in a lump of coal in space
burning fast under the sun’s heat

you tell me just to get laid
you tell me just to get laid
like any woman I was with
wouldn’t want to give Trump a fit

we’re all fighting the good fight
nothing is going to change while we’re in chains
going to the polls to make a difference
my sisters and brothers know the truth
we know what we got to do

you tell me just to get laid
you tell me just to get laid
like any woman I was with
wouldn’t want to give Trump a fit

‘A Blue Wave Is Comin” — #Lyrics To A Pop-Rock-Folk Song

I enjoy writing lyrics because it’s relaxing. No one cares about anything I write one way or another, so this is just me mentally masturbating. I just like to try to tell stories in verse, so you get this. This is about my hopes for the 2018 mid-terms.

A Blue Wave Is Comin’
lyrics by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls
please give credit if you produce or perform

things are looking dire
seems like all we can do is aspire
to a blue wave this year
something to bring back sanity
but who knows what will happen
all we can do is vote, vote, vote

a blue wave is comin’
a blue wave is comin’
that’s right
a blue wave is on its way
gunna blow Trump away

nothing seems to change
I watch events as they unfold on TV
when will my government return to normality
will I ever get to see anything change
or will the fascist when in the end
all I can say is believe
believe in the truth

a blue wave is comin’
a blue wave is comin’
that’s right
a blue wave is on its way
gunna blow Trump away

[bridge]
how they can keep a straight face
up on capitol hill while they lie
for a cheap thrill
I just don’t know

in the end
we’ll win my friend
that you can trust me about
we’ve got history on our side
let’s ride!

a blue wave is comin’
a blue wave is comin’
a blue wave is comin’
a blue wave is comin’

Yet More Mulling #Writing A Scifi #Screenplay About The Trump Era

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

I continue to make my way through the darkness to figure out the specifics of a movie concept that I think is pretty strong, pretty powerful. It’s about humanity — and the United States specifically — being given the greatest opportunity in human history and because of how screwed up everything is, we’re not able to take advantage of it until things get so desperate that we feel we have no choice.

That, at least, is the general concept. If I were doing a “high concept” elevator pitch, I would say something like it’s “Close Encounters of The Third Kind meets Network meets Burn After Reading set in the Trump Era.” Now, I’m not suggesting I’m a good enough writer to pull this off by myself. My goal is to simply produce something, anything in screenplay form and use that as a the basis of a something I could get someone else to help me with. I need a collaborator who knows plot. I know how to think up a concept, but plot is difficult for me. But, thankfully, the plot of this one is, so far, flowing quite well.

I am enjoying fleshing out the story a great deal. It’s a lot of fun thinking all the different ways things could go wrong given the construct of the scenario in question. And as I conceive of it, there would be enough whiz-bang action and adventure in the movie for it to be a legitimate summer scifi blockbuster. I like how this concept would both be deep and entertaining in a way that the masses would enjoy it. Some people, obviously, would be turned off by the politics of it all, but fuck them. 🙂

Of #Hollywood & Writing A Scifi Trump Era ‘Network’ #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

The more I think about it, the more I realize the vibe I want for this possible screenplay I’m sketching out is a scifi Trump era Network. I want to at least attempt to write a story that sort of soaks up the national zeitgeist and spits it out in an intelligent manner.

Network is a brilliant film for numerous reasons. I guess I’m frustrated that Hollywood hasn’t begun to pump out movies like Network about the Trump Era and I am kind of absent mindedly writing one of my own just because the concept is so strong and interesting that I’m entertaining myself thinking up all kinds of different insane things that might happen given the scenario I’ve cooked up.

I like the idea that one man ostensibly average guy would be, through no fault of his own, put in an extraordinary situation where he was forced to decide the fate of the entire world. I have been dwelling on this scenario for years, but hadn’t figured out a plot until recently.

But the issue is I have to put the work in. I can talk about this all I want to, but if I don’t put the work in this is just mental masturbation. It’s fun to sketch things out.

V-Log: I Want To Write A Scifi ‘Network’ For The Trump Era #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

As I sketch out this concept for a screenplay, I find it’s definitely strong enough to pursue. But it’s going to take time. Maybe a long time. A few months at least. But it’s fun to dwell on this particular scenario and run with it. Anyway, the below video goes on at length about this situation.

V-Log: #Screenplay I’m Mulling #Writing Would Be A Metaphor For The Trump Era

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

The more I think about it, the more I realize the screenplay concept I’m sketching out could be seen as something of a metaphor for the Trump Era. Kinda. Sorta. There definitely would be elements of a metaphor in it. There would be a huge amount of subtext about how screwed up the Trump Era is in it.

There really hasn’t been a major movie that talks about the Trump Era in a big way yet and maybe a lot of them are in the pipeline. I don’t know. But it’s fun to sketch out a story that talks about a lot of the issues that we’re all dwelling on these days.

Anyway, watch the below video. It’s interesting.

Trump Era Immigration & Political Dysfunction Are Themes Of This #Screenplay

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

So this I have this great concept for a scifi movie screenplay. I bounce around a lot creative — in large part because I don’t have a muse to tell me to shutup and write — so my interest in this concept could fade quite quickly, but for the time being this is what I’m interested in.

Anyway, watch the below video. It’s pretty interesting.

V-log: #Hollywood, #Writing A #Screenplay and General Meandering Mulling

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

In this video, I go into great length about the general movie screenplay concept I’m working on. I am waiting on buying a professional camera and for some reason the muse is active and I’m screwing around with a screenplay. Maybe nothing will come of it, but maybe it will. Anyway, I really encourage you to watch this one. It’s pretty good.

In it, I go into why I like screenwriting, why I think I would do well in Hollywood and the general concepts associated with the screenplay I’m interested in writing. There really hasn’t been a movie that deals specifically with the Trump era and this movie concept does just that. I’m going to throw everything but the kitchen sink at this story as part of fleshing it out.

I am musing about different weird things that could happen to our Hero. One of those weird things would be something like we learn he obsessed over a fashion It Girl like Alexa Chung and that comes back to haunt him. Or something. I like the idea of there being personal consequences to his actions as well. That’s going to be the subplot, at least, how all this affects our Hero on a personal level.

The thing I like about Hollywood is how important networking is. I also like how Hollywood is a town based on story telling. Though I find myself thinking I’m much more of New York City kinda guy, I admire how much of LA is obessed with writing screenplays.

Anyway, no one ever watches any of these videos I do, but this one is really good. It’s really interesting if you’re into telling stories. I am going to try to spend most of the day today fleshing out this screenplay concept, but I am known to say that and then just sleep the day away.

Of #Writing #Screenplays & America In The Age Of #Trump

by Shelton Bumgarner
@bumgarls

There’s no way to tell the story I want to tell without talking about how Trump has changed America, so I’ve decided to make that the main theme of the story in the first place. But it’s going to be a while before I produce anything. I have to write a short story or novella first.