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happy happy birfday, siri_eerin! i know it's been forever, but there ya go. you get to request something (AAAnything, baby) if you see this in time. otherwise, your coupon will expire and you will be forced to deal with my automated answering service.
and now, a short play entitled, "what every motherfucker in athens is doing this weekend."
ACT I
lights go up on a sparsely dressed stage containing what appears to be a dining table dressed with a giant ham. surrounding the table are four members of an "american nuclear family" - that is to say, a "mommy", a "daddy", a "brother", and a "sister".
daddy: well, children, look at this lovely ham.
mommy: why dear, i don't know if you realised, but this weekend is ATHFEST!
brother & sister: yay!
daddy: well, well! looks like we're going downtown right after we finish our ham!
brother & sister: yay!
mommy: (laughs gently) you know, darling, i had completely forgotten there was a music scene in this town!
daddy: me too, dear! ha, ha!
lights down.
i haven't written the rest of the play yet, but it centers around a twenty-one-year-old girl with latent social anxiety that only evidences itself when her slow little corner of the universe is overrun with all the people that never normally come downtown. there'll be a scene with rain, and crying, and the eventual gunfight ending, but i haven't worked everything out.
anyway, i really kinda love it when the kids are gone for the summer, and athfest brings back the fervor of gamedays in an evil twist. that is to say, i know not to go out to town on a football game day. i have no desire. however, this is music, which is something i like. a lot of my friends and their bands are playing. but if it was anything else, i'd be staying the hhhell away from derek zoolander the entire downtown area.
pretty much.
eta: i've just spent almost two hours transfixed by google earth. stop me. please.
and now, a short play entitled, "what every motherfucker in athens is doing this weekend."
ACT I
lights go up on a sparsely dressed stage containing what appears to be a dining table dressed with a giant ham. surrounding the table are four members of an "american nuclear family" - that is to say, a "mommy", a "daddy", a "brother", and a "sister".
daddy: well, children, look at this lovely ham.
mommy: why dear, i don't know if you realised, but this weekend is ATHFEST!
brother & sister: yay!
daddy: well, well! looks like we're going downtown right after we finish our ham!
brother & sister: yay!
mommy: (laughs gently) you know, darling, i had completely forgotten there was a music scene in this town!
daddy: me too, dear! ha, ha!
lights down.
i haven't written the rest of the play yet, but it centers around a twenty-one-year-old girl with latent social anxiety that only evidences itself when her slow little corner of the universe is overrun with all the people that never normally come downtown. there'll be a scene with rain, and crying, and the eventual gunfight ending, but i haven't worked everything out.
anyway, i really kinda love it when the kids are gone for the summer, and athfest brings back the fervor of gamedays in an evil twist. that is to say, i know not to go out to town on a football game day. i have no desire. however, this is music, which is something i like. a lot of my friends and their bands are playing. but if it was anything else, i'd be staying the hhhell away from derek zoolander the entire downtown area.
pretty much.
eta: i've just spent almost two hours transfixed by google earth. stop me. please.