Sartre Kitchen-Stabbing Poetry

This is a new game I just came up with. First let me explain what inspired it: my husband and I came across a French movie on TV and started watching. It starred Isabelle Huppert, which is shorthand for "it involved blood-curdling extremes of existential coldness, and sex so affectless it verged on psychopathic." With the help of Google I figured out what movie it was: "Ma Mere," whose plot summary is as follows: "When his father dies, a young man is introduced by his attractive, amoral mother to a world of hedonism and depravity." Meanwhile my husband asks, "Are all her movies like this?"

So I click on various movie titles listed under her name on imdb.com, which, for each movie listed, includes a blurb summarizing the plot and a list of keywords. Here are some randomly chosen plot synopses and keywords from movies she's made within the last ten years (I am not making this up):

Blood / Young Boy / Actual Animal Killed / Letter / Grave
A prostitute and her teenager daughter, will have to run away after the girl stabs her mother's pimp.
Self Hate / BDSM / Pianist /Female Musician / Self Inflicted Injury
Great movie about coldness and distance in human relationships!
Switzerland / Chocolate / Car Accident / Attempted Murder / Sleeping Pill
Idiosyncratic, infuriating non-linear autobiographical fantasia
Male Nudity / Gag / Female Nudity / Femdom / Urination
Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally
Nephew / Corruption / Gloves / Sabotage / Suicide Attempt

So here's the game: pretend you have a set of poetry magnets featuring keywords or words used in plot summaries of Isabelle Huppert movies, as described on imdb.com. Now write poetry using nothing but those words (and, if needed, link words like the, to, and, etc.). It's amazing! Anything you write this way will end up sounding like Sartre wrote it while stabbing himself to death in some grimy, fluorescent-lit kitchen!

A great game for parties and road trips, I think.

Celebrate Good Times - Come On!

From Obama's victory speech:
"You know, they said this day would never come. They said our sights were set too high. They said this country was too divided, too disillusioned to ever come together around a common purpose. But on this January night, at this defining moment in history, you have done what the cynics said we couldn't do. You have done what the state of New Hampshire can do in five days. You have done what America can do in this new year, 2008. In lines that stretched around schools and churches, in small towns and in big cities, you came together as Democrats, Republicans and independents, to stand up and say that we are one nation. We are one people. And our time for change has come."

This is about how I feel (click on the play button, and make sure your sound is on):

This morning when I saw the headline, I even spontaneously performed some of the fancy footwork seen around the one-minute mark.