3 september 2006

The B-String of Steel
How hard is it to create ridiculous, over the top names for a story?
Understated? Over the top?
Why the FUCK can't I sleep?
Am I going to get laid this decade?
FUCK!

Sexually inactive--think over the top--because he was wrongly diagnosed with with a rare venereal disease that labelled him its poster child.

What the fuck is a venereal disease?

Who was clapping along with Morning Bell?

This is where my story starts

How come I end up the way I started
How come I end up when I went wrong

Story

Pokemon, the sad fad, is being watched in the room next to me. How can I be associated with people that'd actually follow a fad?
I turn on the 20 GB laptop I got for my birthday. Who'd have imagined I'd wanted the extra 5GB upgrade for 100, but my technologically sentient uncle?
Napster starts up after Windows 98. I have at least 10 GB devoted to music files from Napster, including the eagerly awaited Kid A, by Radiohead.
No one on the Napster music sharing community HASN'T heard Kid A. Or at least this leak. I'm getting the album when it comes out, but I wouldn't doubt if others didn't buy another CD for as long as Napster lasted.
On the Klipsch speakersplays Radiohead's Exit Music (for a film) from the 1997 album, OK Computer. I sing along as Thom Yorke strums his acoustic for the Romeo and Juliet inspired number.
"Randall!"
The banshee cry of my hysterical aunt.
"Randall Terrence! Your internet just disconnected my call!"
"Use line 2!"
"You're not using to to steal music are you? I don't want any FBI crawling in here and arresting me cos it's my internet!"
Ignore it.
I listen to the best live band of 1997 retreat into their laptops on beat-happy Idioteque. Sounds like Autechre's best beats and alien moaning.
How would this work live? Bring their laptops on stage? When did Radiohead become electronica? Didn't U2 do this with Zooropa then get really bad? Not that I actually enjoyed Joshua Tree...
I get on AIM.
My retrea.
I listen to Big Ideas, a nice song never released by Radiohead, with a gorgeous organ melody.

Strings of Steel
Supermen--
Clark Kent and his Supermen