Skeletal Lamping Film Working Outline

First off, for all of one person (Alex Abbott by my guesses) who have read my previous blog, I've given up on the idea because that involves work. However, here is an outline for my "music video movie" idea for the of Montreal (that's "of Montreal" and not "Of Montreal" because they are absolute hipster garbage--and I love it) album Skeletal Lamping, which for those not familiar with the album, is a concept album revolving around the lurid subject of sex. I have an idea for making what is basically an extended music video that links together a poorly plotted story based around the progression and songs of the album. Something working in my favor (or quite easily against it as well) is that even within songs there are drastic melodic and mood changes that have absolutely no segueway. So, here is my basic idea so far, which will be forever expanded upon, especially when I dig through the entire album amd digest all it has to offer me creatively.

1 [Nonparial of Favor] -- Kevin Barnes (the singer and band leader) proposes on a date, followed by a plunge into the box that the engagement ring is kept in, which contains a tunnel instead. Follow cartoony path until we reach Kevin dressed silly and on the set of a strange children's television show set, with back-up vocals performed handpuppets (with subtle adult themes) popping out of boxes on the wall. Foam and bubbles are being expelled everywhere. When the song shifts to the "Calling your ass up at like three in the morning" part, Keving completely strips off his children's show uniform and is now in a full body lavender spandex outfit. He is walking on a constant track with ever-changing background where he answers a phone, hangs up, keeps walking, takes a seat on a subway with the scenery being portraits of country and city scape held by people running by. The sets are constantly being assembled and dismantled by stage hands. Finally he arrives at a shop window with the woman he proposed to on our side of the glass. "I'm crashing my sweet love" and he is pounding on the glass, pauses, and when the huge pounding interlude ensues, he and characters form the aforementioned children's show beat their fists against the glass until it shatters, and they fall into the tunnel that we went through before until the end up in...

2 [Wicked Wisdom] -- which is basically like the sexual deviant version of landing somewhere over the rainbow. Kevin is confronted by the Porn Queen (a drag queen)and it's minions which push him about. Final songshift brings forth the Ice Queen, a cold, hard bitch (protrayed by Kevin) who puts the Porn Queen in her place and then condemns Kevin to a confinement camp with bimbos and meat heads

3 [For Our Elegant Caste] -- which take him in and introduce to their leader, the Black She-Male, dosguised as a blind beggar full of wisdom. The beggar aks Kevin to join them in their inclement orgy. Kevin is troubled by the thought of cheating on his love who he had proposed to. The beggar asks him to call into mind the meaning of that relationship.

4 [Touched Something's Hollow] -- He pulls out his locket with her picture in it and begins asking why he is so troubled about the relationship and his desires.

5 [An Ellaurdian Instance] -- Flashback to the two of them zooming through the streets of Oslo or some other Norwegian city on a motorbike or scooter. Flashback to a summer on a beach in Sweden, which they talk as if what they are doing has already happened. Then Kevin flashes back to when they first met. Then back to the sped up shot of them zooming through Oslo on the scooter and again. The song shift is introduced by the sun setting and the moon rising. They pass a cafe at which Kevin is sitting, holding the locket as before, he accusing it hatingly and in a hurt manner. Zoom up of his eyes.

6 [Gallery Piece] -- Zoom out and he is dressed flamboyantly and loosely. He is back with the bimbos. He sings the song and teases all fo the prisoners. The beggar looks on pleased.

7 [Women's Studies Victim] -- Kevin finds the Eagle-Shaped Mirror and somehow knows to give it to the beggar, who transforms before their very eyes into the Black She-Male who uses the song has it's theme song. It turns on a television set that is playing its transformation into what it is today, the Black She-Male. It uses its fantastic powers to break free from the prison where it meets its partner on the outside, St. Exquisite.

8 [St. Exquisite's Confessions] == He then goes on to relate his backstory and how his status as a religious figure leaves him confined to watching others enjoying carnal pleasure.

I am a little foggy on the rest of the album, but some includes Kevin becoming a love guru for Beware Our Nubile Miscreants and helping out a high school crush in the past. In Triphallus, to Punctuate! he speaks to a girlfriend who used and cheated on him. Finally we get to

15 [Id Engager] -- in which a fully evolved Kevin, who has fused with the Black She-Male, makes his ultimate announcement, which could be the retraction of his proposal, seeing as he is more interested in the physical side of the relationship. He is sexually liberated and wishes to do the same for her. The only way he can love her is if she gets past her repression and becomes sexually free and ambitious as he is. The finale is a fision between the two dimensions in which every character met comes to see the two off on another adventure. Kevin throws a party in the altered version of the restaraunt in which he proposed to her in the beginning. The question mark melodic change in the end ios Kevin and possible-wife-to-be floating out the window into the bringht, blue sky.

I know, that's stupid and, for a lack of better words, gay. Right. Gotcha there. I agree. Though, I think with proper planning and fudning, and of course if the band would ever want to do the project four years from now when I plan on seeking them out, this could turn out very well. And if I flesh out the plot and eventually get their input and cooperation, this could be pretty badass.

My nervous tic is acting up, my neck hurts, I need sleep, it's sweltering in my house. That is how I end this tonight. Good night, Alex and anybody else who might be reading this.