Did I mention my amazement at the visual effects upon rewatching King Kong the other week?
The other night, something came to me in a dream: what if there were a band that was totally made up of franchise characters, "played" by respected-in-their-own-right but still-replaceable "players"? What if Ziggy and the Spiders was more literal (i.e. that identity was the band, rather than a detachable piece of pop-culture drag), and done over time like the James Bond franchise, or better, like Doctor Who? What if, in the history of, say, "Jennie and the Howlers", Jennie was played first by Grace Jones, and then by Marianne Faithfull? (Amazingly, this was the actual example that came to me in the dream.) Jennie 1.0, Jennie 2.0. Interesting.
