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01 // video forever

May 20, 2010 19:28

[The wall communicator flickers on by itself, as they do sometimes. It reveals someone new: a middle-aged, moustachioed man whose face is caked in stage makeup, and whose suit is torn and scorched in places ( Read more... )

c. sofia lamb, finally something decent on the radio, c. jack "totally a moth" ryan, nobody mention rabbits, a wild bunny appears, demonstrating fire safety, c. haru, c. that beautiful bastard sinclair, c. italy, c. allen walker

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jesusing_clown May 21 2010, 14:41:23 UTC

Sir? Um, would you like to know where the real pianos are?

[video] presto_presto May 21 2010, 14:54:11 UTC

[he stops singing, although his hands still waver in the air.]

I would be indebted if you could show me.

[Video] jesusing_clown May 22 2010, 00:11:01 UTC

[I have no idea what to make of you]

It's no trouble, where are you now? The music rooms are on the first floor.

[Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 22:23:56 UTC

I'm...

...not sure where I am.

[he frowns uneasily; the fact seems to have only just occurred to him.]

[Video] jesusing_clown May 23 2010, 22:29:56 UTC

You're new, I'm guessing. Welcome to Wonderland, I'm afraid it's not your world anymore.

[Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 22:33:44 UTC

Wonderland sounds promising.

Then again, so did the last pit I sank my talent into.

[Video] jesusing_clown May 23 2010, 22:34:57 UTC

It's supposed to be from a book, I think.

Ah? Where was that, if you don't mind me asking?

Re: [Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 22:36:06 UTC

[he smiles bitterly, finally lowering his hands to his lap.]

Rapture.

[Video] jesusing_clown May 23 2010, 22:42:00 UTC

...Ah. I've heard a little about Rapture.

[Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 22:48:27 UTC

[He's been sort of gazing vaguely up till now, but now Cohen looks at the screen with more focus, a little hollow hope.]

Tell me... did anyone speak of an old entertainer by the name of Sander Cohen...?

[Video] jesusing_clown May 23 2010, 22:51:06 UTC

Is that you? I'm afraid not Mr Cohen, people have mainly been telling me how dangerous everyone there was.

Re: [Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 23:02:08 UTC

It is.

[He has to look away for a moment in disappointment, briefly closing his eyes. When he looks back, his lips are pressed together thinly.]

Of course, I'm not surprised. No-one in Rapture has given a thought to the arts in their purest form for years. Write an album, they say, that will tell people just how fine our fine city is. The theatre is closed, they say, until the war is over - and is it ever really over? Whatever happened to art for art's sake - the vision of the muse, without the intrusion of politics?

[That's some passion in that there voice; Cohen holds his palms out towards the screen, as though waiting for Allen to agree.]

[Video] jesusing_clown May 23 2010, 23:05:17 UTC

...There isn't much of 'politics' here. Which is a little odd, seeing as there are people that are personifications of countries. I don't think anyone would suppress your art now, you can write what you waqnt.

[Video] presto_presto May 23 2010, 23:09:01 UTC

Those were the promises they gave me at the beginning. No government, no censorship...

[he sounds bitter again.]

[Video] jesusing_clown May 24 2010, 13:07:51 UTC

But that sort of thing didn't last, I take it? Somebody would only 'censor' you around here if you were hurting somebody, otherwise you can do what you want.

[Video] presto_presto May 24 2010, 13:19:39 UTC

The optimistic heyday of a city, when anything goes, the streets paved with good intentions.

[he says it mostly to himself, in a dreamy, singsong sort of voice.]

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