Where do you get your ideas from ?

I think a lot of it is a combination of trying to think of what I would be most excited to read and reacting to my own life and other people’s work.

At the start of Prophet me and Simon had a scene where John P goes to meet an alien contact (kind of a chicken with a vagina for a face) and his contact has sex with him before they conduct business. 

I was watching the movie “

The Limits of Control

“ (possibly my least favorite Jim Jarmusch movie) and there’s a scene where one of the people the hero is meant to contact is a beautiful woman that the hero has never met. She’s waiting for him with a gun naked in bed when he shows up and offers to sex him up. 

He turns her down saying something like “I never mix business and sex” but I was struck by the nerve of this woman– just assuming she was going to start a meeting with sex. I remember joking about how the scene would go if it was a middle aged business man acting the same way. – and that led to me thinking that it might be a thing an alien could do.