I then collected a lot of seemingly random and what seemed like significant things out of the world, things I wanted to make fit into my prospective book - events, memories, snippets of what someone said, places, names of places, ideas - all, again, conveyed in language (sometimes just words I liked and wanted to put into play).
The plan goes awry, of course, and as it does, the brothers share memories and snippets of family and personal troubles.
While he played virtually every song anybody could think of from his back catalogue, he tended to play them in memory-jogging snippets, as if to confirm that he was indeed the real Willie Nelson, but not wishing to go into too much detail.
2. Write memories, story snippets, and hopes and visions that you have about what you're holding onto and what you want to move toward.
As the truth about their marriage filters in, so do disturbing snippets of memory from their last night together.
As the faces of the dancers fill the screen (the quality of the animation, by Vita Berezina-Blackburn, and the video, by Maya Ciarrocchi, is remarkably vivid), the disembodied voice continues to offer snippets of memory and reflections about the past.
Therapists and neuroscientists alike say intrusive snippets of memory are a normal response to trauma, and I tend to agree.
Literary snippets, memories, personal mythologies, and art historical references inform the imagery; fused together, these influences explore relationships, domesticity and self-perception.
Sometimes snippets return to memory.
The human ego is composed primarily of a constantly shifting medley of body sensations and thoughts combined with snippets of autobiographical memory (according to neuroscientist Antonio Damasio).
The film is absent anything resembling a conventional scene, consisting instead of fragments, slivers, snippets of recorded memory linked by uninspired voice-over of the "I spent 30 years not living life" and "Where did I go wrong?" variety.
