6:38PM: seems like it’s actually going to be hard to sleep. body feels too weird to sleep. watching ‘negatives’/inverse images of silhouettes moving at a different speed than the rest of my vision. keep thinking about parts of ‘nothing’ by blake butler, wish i had it here. feel like i could match or beat blake in a ‘no sleeping’ contest. i could probably do a week. would be good to be on a reality show with him where the object of the game is to stay awake the longest, but the night before the game starts, you are flown to your opponent’s house, to booby-trap it. then you are flown back to your house. the commercial for the show would have a voiceover that would be like (when it’s capitalized it means it’s an echo): ‘two people TWO TWO TWO. who have met once ONCE ONCE [man yells ‘two-thousand eleven’] [man yells ‘the internet’ and sounds like he is falling off a cliff] [no audio or visual for several seconds, then a rumbling, then something emerges in the distance. it is a monster truck driven by an extremely muscular man screaming ‘AT AWP WHEN BLAKE WAS DRUNK’ as the truck roars and jumps over the camera and crashes offscreen] [this is replaced with long, panning shots of a desert at night and desert noises, like desert loons and coyotes. barely audible gregorian chanting can also be heard.] johnny cash’s voice wryly says: ‘what happens when you gotta spend a week in your own house?’ [the desert is replaced with black and white slow-motion footage of a young johnny cash walking offstage.] ‘no-ho-ho rules, my friend. except you snooze? you lose.’ [he is gone. the mic stand remains. a giant can of foster’s beer materializes over the still-cheering crowd. next, the text: ‘foster’s: australian for beer.’] [screen is black] [man’s voice from beginning yells ‘sponsored by foster’s’ and it sounds like he is falling off a cliff again].’ so that would be the commercial. want johnny cash to say ‘the man of the house’ at some point. maybe the show is just called ‘the man of the house.’ i don’t know what the booby-trapping…like, am i thinking the booby-traps would be…? so in order to defeat the other person the traps would need to make them fall asleep. how do you do that. boring comfortable booby-trapped house. seems shitty. you have to make them fall asleep without killing them. no wait you can kill them. if you want. you would still get arrested though it would not be ‘hunger games’ style. then after you murder the other person and win, it becomes another reality show where you’re running from the cops. or no, it’s just the next season of the first show. then i guess you die too, eventually. there will be a lot of seasons. there would be one season where the winner of the no-sleep thing escapes the cops so many times that they actually convince everyone that they’re the president. then it becomes a government reality show. no, they don’t need to lie, they actually run for president and win. because the cops like them. even though they killed the other person. they’re just really good, loved by all. they are followed by cameras until their groundbreaking record-setting death of old age. it turns out they are the oldest person. they were actually the oldest person the entire time. even in the beginning, before they even knew the show was really about being the oldest, they were still the oldest. they did not back down in the face of adversity. they remained older than everyone the entire time. which is really the message of the show. the lesson to be learned: the oldest person wins the race. oh my god. ‘mafia credit card,’ remember that. ‘hunger games’ was stupid.