Coffee beans, boxer briefs and a whole lotta hair!

It's interesting where inspiration comes from. While sitting in my friend's car on the way back home from Richmond and listening to a song, I thought of an entire scene. While looking out the window, my mind would go to this faraway place and suddenly there's a light bulb shining atop of my head.

This time the inspiration came from doing the most simplest task: Walking down the stairs at eight o'clock in the morning. I know it sounds silly, but that's exactly what I did! One morning, I woke up and walked down stairs wearing a white robe, black boxer briefs, and a gray t-shirt. But enough about something as mundane as what I did and what I was wearing -- lets talk about what it inspired!

As I mentioned in the previous entry that I'm writing this story. I don't know exactly what it is yet, but I know it's a story. Within this story I use mythical creatures and beliefs -- complete with my own spin, of course -- as part of the main plot.

One I found interesting was something called the futakuchi-onna. This one is very interesting in that it's a woman with a second mouth on the back of her head. This entry isn't about the beliefs people had regarding this creature, so I'm not going to go into much detail about how and why she has a frakkin second mouth in the back of her head. Instead, I'll talk about how she fits into my story.

futakuchi-onna

I didn't know how to include this woman. I mean, she's very interesting, but it was hard for me to come up with a way to include her with my own spin.. . . until I walked down those stairs that Saturday morning. In my mind I was a white middle-aged married man who woke up after noticing his wife wasn't in bed. He feels around the bed with his eyes closed before opening them and realizing no one was there. He got up, put on his robe and walked down the stairs. The early morning light shined through his windows as he walked into his kitchen. He noticed the coffee was made and he praised his wife for already having it made. He heard something behind him, so he laughed and said something around the lines of, "Oh there you are" before turning around and noticing it was, in fact, her. But he was scared for some reason. He let out a scream and WHAMO -- opening credits. 

I've concocted an entire story to follow this, but I probably shouldn't go into more details before someone cries "SPOILER ALERT!!!"

Just know that a simple task, such as walking down the stairs or taking a shower (that's another entry!) can lead to inspiration coming out of your ying yang!