Million Dollar Ideas

For starters don't even bother going to watch "Jobs" the Steve Jobs movie; it's awful enough for me to actually say so on the internet on a blog that one person has actually subscribed to (I can't blame the rest of you, what's it been, a year... two... a long damn time.) It reads as if the editor and director sat up in the editing booth with a bag each of acid and meth and just had a blast. Too bad the result is a steaming pile of disjointed plots, half finished stories and poor acting. Woz was believable though.

At any rate the portrait that was so sloppily painted with fingers and mud makes Jobs out to be a thieving, conniving, hypocritical, womanizing dead-beat dad. Okay, all of that is true. However, the way that the story is told just makes me want to slap the director. Also, way too much free hand camera work(I'm not usually one to get sick from jerky camera motion but this got pretty bad and for long scenes.)

All of that is just prelude to the topic at hand. 

I maintain a text file that operates as an archive of all my "million dollar" ideas. A more successful contemporary would refer to this as "brain crack", sort of. It's sort of a to-do list and it's sort of a holy-shit-that-would-be-awesome list and it's also something I less frequently than I should update with, well... million dollar ideas. It just occurred to me that this is a double meaning I had not thought of nor intended but is apt all the same. Some of the ideas are worth a million dollars BUT a lot of them are ideas that would cost a million dollars. Which is a much more succinct way of saying what I was going to try to say anyway. Essentially, if I had a million dollars I could probably do something spectacular. Even a spectacular failure is still spectacular! In any case I do not have a million dollars. Nowhere near it in fact. (Always taking donations...) But the ideas do give me some hope that some day maybe I could get lucky and one of them take off or be attainable (and profitable). That is the problem though. First one has to start on the project. Merely having the idea is not enough. This blog is a meandering and probably misguided attempt to enact one of those million dollar ideas. But I have far more "ideas" than time (or money) and I do seem to have some trouble with motivation some times. So basically I'm whining that I was "unfortunate" enough to have to work at a regular job. But idealistic me still wants for a world where maybe just an idea can profoundly change the course of one life or all of ours. Sure I could turn to crowdsourcing or kick-starting for a few of these ideas. But the downside is that I as an individual cannot deal with the fallout of a failure. So as a "little" guy or somebody that just doesn't have enough "fuck you" money to just tinker all day I'm stuck with a nice big bag of brain crack. These addicting little gems that would be great if only...

How does this tie in to the prelude? Very loosely if at all. Jobs seems to have just been in the right circle with the right idea at the right time which is great to a degree. And basically I wish I could pull that off one day too. I just hope I can manage to not piss off everybody around me in the process. In the mean time let's hear it for the big bag of brain crack. If somebody leaves a comment I will post one of my real million dollar ideas in the next post. I'm not kidding, just set it free on the internet... See you around friends.