An album

Where all the song lyrics are inspired by Missed Connections posts on Craigslist.

Revised hot dog bun.

Grammy winners.

The Grammy's should have every album that wins its respective genre category be piled into the 'Best Album of the Year' category. So you find out who is up for 'Best Album' over the course of the night.

It beats an album being up for 'Best Rap Album' and it being the only album up for 'Best Album,' so it becomes a pretty easy thing to say it'll win 'Best Rap Album.'

Oscar winners.

According to this article, the Academy Awards used to be decided by a group of men in a room arguing about it.

http://www.dailyplastic.com/2009/02/80-years-old-the-academy-awards/

I would like to bring this back. Pick twelve people to go in a room and they argue their points and why they're right and they don't decide on a best picture until they have a unanimous decision. It's '12 Angry Men' for every single Oscar pick.

It beats people picking winners without having seen the damn thing, or having been seduced by popular opinion.

movie soundtracks

with ALL the songs from the movie.

clear socks

for when i don't want anyone to know my toes are cold.

A service

that reverses all sequences in British movies where they're driving on the opposite side of the road. I need it by 8 o'clock tonight.

Bus shelter ads.

The ones that glow at night. They should, like, emit warmth. It could be a cool homeless ad or something and be useful to actual homeless people but whatever, it's fucking cold waiting for a fucking bus.

Honest Baseball Cards

Baseball cards are too nice. There are a ton of players who are just awful. Baseball cards should tell you things like "This guy hasn't hit anything since he was traded from Atlanta" or "This guy should have retired five years ago" or "This card is worth less than the paper it's printed on because this guy is god-awful." It would be the perfect set of cards for hecklers.

What? Other people have ideas?

Not that I thought we were the only ones capable of coming up with ideas, but these people are getting way more attention for it. Of course, our ideas are waaay better.

http://www.sixmonthmba.com/2009/02/999ideas.html#more

Convicted sex offenders

should be made to wear squeaky shoes.

I actually mocked up one of my ideas.

I had an idea to do a word-of-the-day vocab lesson through film clips or music. I did the latter and put together two examples of what I was imagining. It could be a way to improve your vocabulary and discover new music.

Example 1 here.

Example 2 here.

I would make more, but I used Photoshop to make the graphics and my trial version ran out yesterday. Sad face.

I'm a crazy liberal, but...

I want a program where if you want to learn, the government makes that possible. I want the gov't to recognize I want to keep growing intellectually and support me in that endeavor. So if I want to read Tribes so I can talk with other planners about these ideas and the implications it assumes, I want the gov't to buy it for me, or give me an online copy of the book, or lend the text to me. I want to be able to take classes in various disciplines and experience cultural events, without being put at a financial disadvantage. 

A life scholarship? Yeah.

Fully immersive movie.

I want to do a thing where you, the viewer, essentially stands in the middle of a room and a movie plays all around you. For instance, if the subject was, say, Robert Kennedy's assasination, it would almost make you feel like you were a part of the crowd. The backs of people in front of you, the forwards of people in the back of you, Robert Kennedy walking towards the podium on the left and his assassin approaching from the right. It would create a sense of confusion and not knowing where to look which is, you know, a thing which moviegoers never asked for.

Movie plot generator.

I want to start a blog where people submit potential movie titles and someone (re: me) come up with a plotline around that title.

Mix-off.

I want to start a mix-off blog where, every month, a topic is unveiled and people have to make a 10-13ish set of songs that fit the mood of/tell a story around that theme.

An article I read.

Compared chess, and the fact that you were essentially controlling sixteen different characters, to an RPG. And I thought it would be cool if chess was reconfigured to the world of RPGs.

Two mice.

I want a computer game, flash game, whatever, where you hook up two mice to your computer, one for your left and right hand and then you, like, do something with that.

I know, I know -- you have to rub your belly and pat your (virtual) head at the same time.

Wait, wait -- it's a clay molding sculpture software thing.

Listen.

Swiffer, figure it out!

I want some kind of swiffer product that works on the page edges of books. You can't spray anything on the edges of the pages, but the dusting clothes don't really get the dust out either.

I want it to be swiffer just 'cause I like 'em.

Mail-order Obama

$4.99/month! One Obama at a time.

Mail-order books

A netflix for books.

My ears. IT BURNS.

TVs that automatically fix the volume level so that from show to show, commercial to commercial, and channel to channel it stays at the same volume. I know there are regulations on volume and that it's used strategically, but I DON'T CARE. It's frustrating and annoying.