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WHO: Adrian Veidt and YOU
WHAT: A day in the life
WHERE: Around the barge
WHEN: Beginning with breakfast ending with late night insomnia.
NOTES: Multiple threads welcome. Today is my day to do nothing, so I'll be around tagging. :X

Also, KimToo, I'm going to put his meeting with Martha in here, if that's okay, so they can talk about Watchmennn (and

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COMMON ROOM

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As it reached midnight, he decided to watch "Labyrinth" (starring David Bowie and David Bowie's package) in the common room. Martha would be starting her 2 AM movie club, but he had already seen her once today, so he figured he'd best watch the movie now.

COMMON ROOM: BOWIE CODPIECE

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Dorian could not sleep, and so he went to find Adrian. Not finding him in his room, he was about to message him with the communicator and was proud of himself for having thought to use the strange device, but he heard an odd sound from the common room and moved to investigate, device in hand, and saw Adrian seated in a chair watching a box.

"Adrian, I was looking for you," he interrupted the sound. Where was the sound coming from? He knew not, and cared not.

"May I join you?"

YESSS.

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"Of course, Dorian." He moved aside on the couch, giving the other room to sit and watch the movie.

"Has anyone introduced to you the concept of moving picture?" he questioned, as Jennifer Connelly made the first of several blunders in her attempt to rescue her younger brother.

He was only watching this for David, of course.

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Dorian sat down on the sofa beside Adrian, settling himself in, and at the mention of moving pictures he looked at the box which echoed life and frowned.

Adrian, however, was not alarmed, and so Dorian had to trust this was not a terrible thing.

"Is it like our communication gadgets?" he asked, "Are there people inside that box?"

After all, he had seen a reflection of himself in the device. There was no dark haired young woman in this room - he had checked - and so the idea that they were inside seemed to make the most sense.

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"No, there's no people inside the box, just their photographs. Do you know about persistence of vision?" He went silent, though, as David made an appearance on the screen. It was in the infamous 'you remind me of the babe' sequence, and Adrian watched his old friend with special attention.

"I used to know him. Not him, exactly, but the man playing his part. He's acting, like in a play," Adrian explained. He was bragging, but only a little, and only because David was marvelous, as always.

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"NO, i do not..."

Dorian listened to Adrian and watched the man on the screen dance and sing. It all made sense at once, as soon as Adrian said it was like a play.

"Ah. A play, yes..." it was a character. He was an actor. He had a remarkable singing voice and singular features. Dorian was startled from his thoughts when Adrian announced that he knew him.

"Is he as charming in person as he is on stage?" Dorian asked. So often it was one and not the other, or when life bloomed the act died in a painful winter. "I do hope so..." he mused on in a kind of wistful way.

Yes, Dorian had discovered the power of the Bowie.

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"He's even more charming," Adrian corrected. "He's very talented and intelligent, imaginative, as well . . ." He paused, glancing back at the movie to finish watching David perform 'Dance Magic Dance.'

"You know, I have some recorded performances of him, 'records,' they're called, if you like listening to his singing voice. My favorite is called Ziggy Stardust." He'd not listened to that album in years. One couldn't hope to stay in the Stardust years forever, after all. He and David had both moved on since their Studio54 days.

Sharing the experience of Ziggy Stardust with Dorian would be a pleasure, though, especially after a couple glasses of wine. He could show Dorian other albums as well, introducing him to something as wholly decadent as early rock and roll.

Dorian would no doubt be in love with the scene, and the prospect reeked of a pleasant nostalgia.

[All prior typos from phone tags.]

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"Oh?" Dorian mused, watching the movie, as interested in the film as he was the strange new medium for performance. "I should like to hear them."

He was quiet some time longer, watching this man dance and sing and kick small strange goblins around with a baby nearby. Dorian was lost.

"This must cost quite a lot to put a performance on for such a small audience," he mused, having apparently forgotten about the likening of movies to photographs, and that the image then would not pass away when it was over.

Dorian leaned close, lowering his voice then, and asked, "Why is there a child there? Is he going to turn the child into a goblin, or are they going to eat him?"

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Adrian was quiet as well, completely engrossed in David's performance. He made such a convincing goblin king. However, then Dorian was talking, and before Adrian could remind him that this was a movie they could watch whenever they wanted, Dorian was asking questions.

"They're going to turn him into a goblin, unless his sister, the ditzy brunette, manages to find her way through the labyrinth within 24 hours. It's a sort of game he's playing with them," He was very patient as he explained, and Dorian had missed the beginning, after all.

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"Ah," said Dorian. That was very helpful.

He leaned back in his seat, and observed, "If it is a comedy, she'll get through and find her brother. Unless it's a tragedy, in which case, the child will die... the goblins will die... the girl will die... they will all die."

[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIHdlc3KHmw#t=1m11s ]

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Adrian laughed at the comment. It was an unimportant part with the silly dramatic girl, so it didn't matter.

"Dorian, it's a children's movie. She'll find her brother, and no one will die."

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"A shame," he commented. He rather liked tragedies, but it made sense that this was not. The music and the acting was too bright and gay to lend itself to tragedy.

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"There are others with David which are much more tragic, and perhaps better suited to your tastes." He was thinking 'The Man Who Fell To Earth', perhaps. That was one of Adrian's favorites.

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Dorian wondered if in these other films, this man David wore clothes like this that hugged him with obscene perfection. He kept this thought to himself.

"Perhaps," he said idly, and then some short time later, with more than a hint of purpose, added, "You should show these others to me."

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"I can introduce you to many great films, films better than this. I need only ask Martha. I'm sure she'll comply."

Yes, that was going to be his next request, a copy of 'The Man Who Fell to Earth,' along with David's other movies. What other movies would Dorian like, he wondered. He'd have to think on this and request those as well.

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Better than this. Dorian was in awe at this, the perfection of its capture on the screen. And there were some better than this. He did not doubt it was true; he had seen a great many plays that had captured his imagination more than this one had, though, he granted, he had come in late for this. He was excited to know that there was a whole new realm of plays to see. Films, as Adrian called them.

After some silence, Dorian asked a question in a tone that made it quite clear what he was asking. After all, he had been told of his personality before.

"This David," he said, "What is he like?"