An Hour of DarknessMar 30, '09 3:42 PM
for everyoneAn Hour of Darkness
This March 28, 2009, Saturday 8:30pm, the lights in our house were turned off and me and my family found ourselves spending the night the old way (candles and everything). Of course we had the benefit of fully charged cell phones, gameboy and laptop so we wouldn’t get bored. Other than that, all electrical equipment was dead.
I lied on my lower part of the deck, playing sudoku on my phone and fanning myself with a personalized fan from Von. Now the actual events of that night were, well, uneventful, ignoring the fact that Saul got burned by the melted candle wax. Still, I thought of what might have happened to a household if they had no electricity for an hour and were cooped together in one place. I felt a script coming on as I write this. And I don’t want to lose the gist of it if ever I feel like continuing. So here’s what I got so far.
TITLE: (untitled); CHARACTERS: Grandma, Mom & Dad, older brother and younger brother; SUMMARY: A blackout spread throughout the neighborhood due to the burning out of the town’s battery. One family, mom coming home from work, dad already home drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, younger brother trying to his homework in the poorly lit room, older brother plays guitar, grandma reminiscing in the corner, will be forced to spend the hour together without the distraction of TV, computers and radios. This leads to a dialogue starting with mom complaining about the traffic to grandma’s words of wisdom. As the electricity returns, the family found themselves turning off their TV’s, computers and radios and going to bed with nothing more to say than “Good night”.
for everyoneAn Hour of Darkness
This March 28, 2009, Saturday 8:30pm, the lights in our house were turned off and me and my family found ourselves spending the night the old way (candles and everything). Of course we had the benefit of fully charged cell phones, gameboy and laptop so we wouldn’t get bored. Other than that, all electrical equipment was dead.
I lied on my lower part of the deck, playing sudoku on my phone and fanning myself with a personalized fan from Von. Now the actual events of that night were, well, uneventful, ignoring the fact that Saul got burned by the melted candle wax. Still, I thought of what might have happened to a household if they had no electricity for an hour and were cooped together in one place. I felt a script coming on as I write this. And I don’t want to lose the gist of it if ever I feel like continuing. So here’s what I got so far.
TITLE: (untitled); CHARACTERS: Grandma, Mom & Dad, older brother and younger brother; SUMMARY: A blackout spread throughout the neighborhood due to the burning out of the town’s battery. One family, mom coming home from work, dad already home drinking coffee and reading the newspaper, younger brother trying to his homework in the poorly lit room, older brother plays guitar, grandma reminiscing in the corner, will be forced to spend the hour together without the distraction of TV, computers and radios. This leads to a dialogue starting with mom complaining about the traffic to grandma’s words of wisdom. As the electricity returns, the family found themselves turning off their TV’s, computers and radios and going to bed with nothing more to say than “Good night”.