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| “Kyle’s photo-montage of black and white clippings, mostly
from fashion magazines, Bailey and Avedon, etc., glued to the walls surrounding
his bed”.
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Kip Jones is pleased to
announce that the tripartite story, “True
confessions: why I left a traditional liberal arts college for the sins of the
big city”, first published in Qualitative
Research Journal, is available on Academia.edu. Jones is particularly pleased
that what is now called ‘auto-fiction’ has been accepted for publication by such
a major qualitative journal. The three stories in the article conclude with a
scene from Jones’ ongoing development of the feature film script for
“Copacetica”. All three stories portray aspects of the sexual fumbling and
romantic insecurities typical in youth.
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"Dirty Frank's" bar, Philadelphia, where the main
characters of “Copacetica” frequently meet. |
The second piece of writing consists of the bar scene for “Copacetica”. This is the scene in which all the major
characters are introduced and the story sets up the conundrum that the main
character will face in the film.
“Copacetica” tells the tale of a gullible youth on a roller coaster ride of loss of innocence and coming out in the flux and instability of 1960s hippy America. Often seen as a period of revolution in social norms, Copacetica’s themes include being different, the celebration of being an outsider, seeing oneself from outside of the “norm”, and the interior conflicts of “coming out” within a continuum as a (gay) male in a straight world. These observations are set within the flux and instability of a period of great social change, but which are often viewed in retrospect as consistent and definable. Being straight or being gay can also be viewed in a similar way within the wider culture’s need to set up a sexual binary and force sexual “choice” decision-making for the benefit of the majority culture, or ‘heteronormativity’. Through the device of the fleeting moment, the story interrogates the certainties and uncertainties of the “norms” of modernity.
In the later gallery scene, a minor character explains the meaning of the word, “copacetic”:
VISITOR TWO
What d’he say?
VISTOR ONE
“Everything’s copacetic”! (Beat) What does that mean, anyway?
VISITOR THREE
Everything’s cool. Everything’s okay. Or “Groovy” as they like to say.
Asked what he enjoyed about writing the script for this film, Jones said, “Definitely revisiting the slang used by youth of the 1960s! It’s virtually its own language. And writing the sex scenes. Exciting and very tiring. Almost like the real thing”.
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