Mini-Meme
Felt like doing drabbles but I don't feel like doing 10, so I'll only be posting 5. Enjoy folks.
1. Julie London - Black Coffee
Nobby would let Lady Ramkin know when Captain Vimes was awake.
"But he's going to need some coffee if he's going to do anyone any good." He said, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
Lady Ramkin wandered nonchalantly into the huge and quite unfamiliar kitchen of the Ramkin estate. He would need something nourishing after the night he'd had, she thought. His workplace had been burnt down by a mythical creature. She started brewing the coffee first and then went to work on the eggs, bacon and potato. Don't ask when she got it into her head to start on a bread pudding but once she was in the kitchen, she was on a roll. She only remembered the coffee halfway up the stairs. She went back into the kitchen and pour... poured probably isn't the right word for it. She'd needed a ice cream scoop to get lumps of the stuff into the mug.
"Good coffee." Vimes said absently after his first sip.
Remarks: for reasons that I won't go into, I have claimed this song as my theme song. It's got everything I'm about, caffeine, insomnia, depression and yet is strangely entertaining. Do think this would be another good song for a Vimes/Sybil music video, it's got a definite noir vibe and a sexyphone at the start. XD
2. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Five minutes, Sam thought when he glanced at Sarge again. The man had been staring at that silver cigar case for at least five minutes. What was it anyway? Those loony monks had dropped it, practically at his feet and suddenly this little switch was pulled in the man's head and... well, it did him a lot of good anyway. Of course that only made Sam curious about it. He craned his head carefully to see just what he was staring at. He had to squint but he read the inscription. Sam!? So Sarge really wasn't John Keel... then, who was he really? And who was Sybil? Sarge's wife? Probably. The back of Sam's brain started to itch, more questions were forming and just thinking them was slightly crazy.
"You all right, Sarge?" He asked to make his brain shut up.
"Huh?"
"Only, you've been looking at your cigars for nearly twenty minutes."
"Half the pleasure's in the anticipation."
Right...
remarks: this drabble didn't really go where I was expecting. for a second, I toyed with the idea of Night Watch and quantum and how maybe there is a trouser of time when the temptation to go back to his old life would be enough for Vimes to voluntarily be History's puppet, not that it made any difference. But instead this happened. I think it still works a little with the song lyrics.
3. Frank Sinatra - This Town
"Have you ever thought of us... retiring to the country?" Sybil asked.
Vimes nearly choked, that was an answer all by itself.
"Retire?" He said sounded frightened, "We're not that... I mean... Why do you suddenly want to move to the country?"
"I don't suddenly want to move to the country," Sybil said soothingly, "I was just thinking. We do have a place there and if you did ever want to have a go at retiring, we'd probably have to leave the city for it to stick."
"Leave Ankh-Morpork?!"
"Calm down, Sam. I haven't packed our things or anything."
"Er... right."
remarks: how can you listen to 'this town' and not think of Ankh-Morpork?
4. Taylor Swift - Love Story
Vimes could feel his wife, and mother of his minutes old child, staring at him.
"What?" He said when he couldn't stand it anymore.
"Now that I've gotten a proper look at it, that eye patch makes you look... rather dashing." She said, "Sort of dangerous and mysterious."
"Thanks..." He said bitterly.
"I'm sorry about chasing you out of the house with a sword." She said suddenly.
"Huh? When did..." He stopped. 30 years ago/last week, she had chased him out of the house with a sword. "Sorry if I frightened you." He said.
"I wasn't frightened." She said more emphatically than if she were telling the truth, "Just shocked. No one had ever barged in like that before."
"I'm still sorry." He said. "You know, I nearly went back and tried to explain things."
"I wish you had. Thinking about it now, you really needed... someone on your side."
remarks: oh this one was tricky. It's just so sweet and sappy and bubbly for them. But 'we were both young when I first saw you' was fun to twist around and technically true thanks to the wonders of accidental time travel.
5. Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Gaskin's coffin was lowered into the ground.
"Shouldn't someone say somefing?" Nobby asked after awhile.
Vimes raised the bottle in his hand and said slurring slightly,
"That's life."
His old sergeant had said that to him... or at least, it sounded like something that old bastard would say. He'd been full of pithy bollucks. Eventually, Vimes had left the cemetery and was staggering out of another pub. He was tired, he felt so old lately. He'd spent his whole life bouncing back from one disappointment after another but he couldn't bounce that high anymore. He made a decision, if something good didn't come up by the end of Grune, he was joining poor old Gaskin.
remarks: I'm beginning to wonder how much Sinatra Terry Pratchett listened to when he created Vimes. Nearly every song of his applies in some way. But this one is especially messed up, it's so bloody-minded optimism while dealing with the harsh reality of life and then the last line of the song is 'I'm gunna roll myself up in a big ball and die'. I highly recommend it.
1. Julie London - Black Coffee
Nobby would let Lady Ramkin know when Captain Vimes was awake.
"But he's going to need some coffee if he's going to do anyone any good." He said, wiggling his eyebrows suggestively.
Lady Ramkin wandered nonchalantly into the huge and quite unfamiliar kitchen of the Ramkin estate. He would need something nourishing after the night he'd had, she thought. His workplace had been burnt down by a mythical creature. She started brewing the coffee first and then went to work on the eggs, bacon and potato. Don't ask when she got it into her head to start on a bread pudding but once she was in the kitchen, she was on a roll. She only remembered the coffee halfway up the stairs. She went back into the kitchen and pour... poured probably isn't the right word for it. She'd needed a ice cream scoop to get lumps of the stuff into the mug.
"Good coffee." Vimes said absently after his first sip.
Remarks: for reasons that I won't go into, I have claimed this song as my theme song. It's got everything I'm about, caffeine, insomnia, depression and yet is strangely entertaining. Do think this would be another good song for a Vimes/Sybil music video, it's got a definite noir vibe and a sexyphone at the start. XD
2. Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Five minutes, Sam thought when he glanced at Sarge again. The man had been staring at that silver cigar case for at least five minutes. What was it anyway? Those loony monks had dropped it, practically at his feet and suddenly this little switch was pulled in the man's head and... well, it did him a lot of good anyway. Of course that only made Sam curious about it. He craned his head carefully to see just what he was staring at. He had to squint but he read the inscription. Sam!? So Sarge really wasn't John Keel... then, who was he really? And who was Sybil? Sarge's wife? Probably. The back of Sam's brain started to itch, more questions were forming and just thinking them was slightly crazy.
"You all right, Sarge?" He asked to make his brain shut up.
"Huh?"
"Only, you've been looking at your cigars for nearly twenty minutes."
"Half the pleasure's in the anticipation."
Right...
remarks: this drabble didn't really go where I was expecting. for a second, I toyed with the idea of Night Watch and quantum and how maybe there is a trouser of time when the temptation to go back to his old life would be enough for Vimes to voluntarily be History's puppet, not that it made any difference. But instead this happened. I think it still works a little with the song lyrics.
3. Frank Sinatra - This Town
"Have you ever thought of us... retiring to the country?" Sybil asked.
Vimes nearly choked, that was an answer all by itself.
"Retire?" He said sounded frightened, "We're not that... I mean... Why do you suddenly want to move to the country?"
"I don't suddenly want to move to the country," Sybil said soothingly, "I was just thinking. We do have a place there and if you did ever want to have a go at retiring, we'd probably have to leave the city for it to stick."
"Leave Ankh-Morpork?!"
"Calm down, Sam. I haven't packed our things or anything."
"Er... right."
remarks: how can you listen to 'this town' and not think of Ankh-Morpork?
4. Taylor Swift - Love Story
Vimes could feel his wife, and mother of his minutes old child, staring at him.
"What?" He said when he couldn't stand it anymore.
"Now that I've gotten a proper look at it, that eye patch makes you look... rather dashing." She said, "Sort of dangerous and mysterious."
"Thanks..." He said bitterly.
"I'm sorry about chasing you out of the house with a sword." She said suddenly.
"Huh? When did..." He stopped. 30 years ago/last week, she had chased him out of the house with a sword. "Sorry if I frightened you." He said.
"I wasn't frightened." She said more emphatically than if she were telling the truth, "Just shocked. No one had ever barged in like that before."
"I'm still sorry." He said. "You know, I nearly went back and tried to explain things."
"I wish you had. Thinking about it now, you really needed... someone on your side."
remarks: oh this one was tricky. It's just so sweet and sappy and bubbly for them. But 'we were both young when I first saw you' was fun to twist around and technically true thanks to the wonders of accidental time travel.
5. Frank Sinatra - That's Life
Gaskin's coffin was lowered into the ground.
"Shouldn't someone say somefing?" Nobby asked after awhile.
Vimes raised the bottle in his hand and said slurring slightly,
"That's life."
His old sergeant had said that to him... or at least, it sounded like something that old bastard would say. He'd been full of pithy bollucks. Eventually, Vimes had left the cemetery and was staggering out of another pub. He was tired, he felt so old lately. He'd spent his whole life bouncing back from one disappointment after another but he couldn't bounce that high anymore. He made a decision, if something good didn't come up by the end of Grune, he was joining poor old Gaskin.
remarks: I'm beginning to wonder how much Sinatra Terry Pratchett listened to when he created Vimes. Nearly every song of his applies in some way. But this one is especially messed up, it's so bloody-minded optimism while dealing with the harsh reality of life and then the last line of the song is 'I'm gunna roll myself up in a big ball and die'. I highly recommend it.