little1lost replied to your post: If I had watched Breaking Bad before writing Juicy…Awww, I...

little1lost replied to your post: If I had watched Breaking Bad before writing Juicy…

Awww, I love it just the way it is. I’d love to hear what you’d change, though!

Heh. I wrote Juicy Fruit based, in part, on my own experiences with my father. I think Johnny is who he imagined himself being. But I shied away from the day to day life in drug culture in JF and I think there is something really interesting there. I would have had more about what it means to live in a world defined by that. I would have had more gallows humor maybe.

I think something that all counter culture has had in common is that it doesn’t fall into step with becoming a marketable demographic. It craves things outside the mainstream, things that can’t have a sales tax or result in a 9 to 5 job. I would have talked a little more about the world turned on its head.