Thank you iam. I feel pretty blessed, but I'll take all the peace and love I can get. Love especially is in short supply. I suspect it's one of those artificial scarcity things. DeBeers cornering the market.
Yeah, I guess I
want to outgrow this place. Rabbit warren or discussion board, haven or honeypot, mystery school, battle zone. It's all the same to me. It isn't a matter of perspective at this point.
Although, I don't know... Free means free to stay. Maybe I'll just settle in right here on the free association thread, broadcasting psychic signals. Free expression power, subtly shaping the fabric... oh, who am I kidding. haha
"Misery" from the album Rough Beast Vindaloo, by Crowds & PowerYet I'm smiling. cheers. Here's a scene.
Zap: (grins) How we doing surreal-wise now, Steve?
Steve: (looks at the surrealometer) Much better.
Cid: So this zen master is walking through the free association woods with her student. They see a rose...
Eugene: Cid Cagliostro.
Joel Hedge: heh.
Cid: ...the student asks the master for her knife...
Ryu: Does it have an ivory handle with an onyx kitty on it?
Cid: ...She points the knife at him. The student says, "uh, could you give me the
other end?" And the master says, "What would you do with the other end?"
Skew: ...
Cid: ...
Joel Hedge: And?
Cid: That's it!
Zap: What the fuck does that mean, Cid.
Steve: It means Cid isn't in this scene, so he had to involve himself in some way.
Eugene springs a poem on the others without warning, raising the poem competition bar one hundred meters.
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***
Steve: Damn.
Link: (takes pen and paper out of glove compartment) I better get started. Eugene's on fire.
Eugene: See that, Ryu?
Ryu: Oh, this isn't over.
***
Timeline Runner flies by ad for radio station; 'Ersatz Catz, all day and
all night.' Ersatz Catz hold masks. Big Ben, Full Moon in background. Moon wears sunglasses.
Joel Hedge: (looking at monitor) Is there something you guys aren't telling me?
Zap: (magnifies view) heh. It appears we are a rock band named 'Ersatz Catz,' now.
Ryu: ooh, am I the drummer?
Cats see themselves on big billboards.
Cats and classic sports cars, Cats in luxurious locales with expensive decor.
Cats as eight-bit sprites, anime characters, touchstones of tv, silver screen, rolling stone icon-cycle.
***
Eugene: huh. We weren't even on the radar yesterday.
Zap: Not even the under-underground radar.
Ryu: We must have signed with major indie.
Joel Hedge: How far down is under-underground?
Link: Even below pretty.
Steve: (explains to reader) Link is a graveyard expert.
Ryu turns on the radio. Song is ending. Ersatz Catz sing,
'mah spaaace invaaader giiirrrlll...'Disc Jockey: That was Ersatz Catz with SI Girl. This just in; Thanatos the wizard was spotted Moon Pearl crater-mining earlier today. He claims the Pearls are for a pretty dead girl he met in Argentina, but planet Earth has him banished, he doesn't know any Spanish, and no one's ever seen her. Details at the top of the hour. Now here's the Ersatz Catz with Alter Day.
***
Ersatz Catz sing;
'little doll, call and say meow I game a change, rollover kitty unto thee is very point lagrange... see my lady, like her now in close surrender stain, yeah so what left, for dead pac-man is every grain of sand...'Ryu: Synthetically wistful.
Eugene: I can see why it's a big hit with people, though. Easy on the ears, no surprises, no thinking required.
Skew: Streamlined, overproduced, cookie-cutter blandness.
Even bigger billboards go by.
Ryu wearing a football jersey, sunglasses. Jutting out his chin, arms open wide. Stadium crowd in background. Ersatz Catz Medallion hangs low on thick gold chain.
Joel Hedge in racecar driver uniform, helmet under his arm. Bright blue sky background. Ersatz Catz oval logo across uniform's chest.
Steve in blue jeans and t-shirt, arms crossed in front of him. Shiny metal-plated futuristc background. Ersatz Catz written in flowing script on red baseball cap.
Zap in a white suit, petting a black cat cradled in his arm. Letters on a Hollywood-style sign on a hill in the background spell out 'Ersatz Catz.'
Eugene stands in front of a 50s-style diner at night, leather jacket with collar turned up, holds up a blue rose like a microphone. Pink neon diner sign says Ersatz Catz.
Edge of a forest. Skew smoking a cigarette, leans with his paw against open-shirted Link. Faerie butterflies light up around them. Ersatz Catz Medallion levitates above palm of Link's hand.
Ersatz Catz sing;
'right on n'est-ce pas or really messy kiss, some miracle, angel express implicit button slowly harder show... we ever dream a timing dream, sun to somber low, ain safe asura tell you sound it out and down, you know...'***
The biggest billboard yet goes by; Ryu at easel, holds palette, paintbrush. Ryu in director's chair, megaphone. Ryu rides cloud wearing dragon embroidered robe. Ryu close-up, handing soda can out to you. Speech bubble says; 'Drink Fanta.'
Ersatz Catz sing;
'wishin' sixes baby sleep I got this, fantasy. hair undone, hold on, tied up, all mine, uh, cute degree... iris informer you are in the presence of new way, kitten nap you space to zap you one to alter day...'Cats listen to more Ersatz Catz songs. Mix of catchy cliche styles - beatle ballad, 'really rockin' now' country, hip-money-hop, safe punk, formulaic heavy - saturated in video game sound effects.
Ryu: (turns radio off) Let's write a new song right now. Ohhh... the wind blows like sinikitty's breeaath...
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Both his words and manner of speech seemed at first totally unfamiliar to me, and yet somehow they stirred memories - as an actor might be stirred by the forgotten lines of some role he had played far away and long ago.