40th Note

[shiverandsing]

[Video]

I guess understand why some people find today annoying. But I like it. Why wouldn't I want to see my old friends and meet some new people. Plus, I've never had anyone show up from home, which is...sorta good, sorta not.

[Curt shrugs. He holds up a gnarled stick.]

Anyway, at the risk of sounding morbid or metaphysical, I'm looking for Death-

Comments

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

You have Death's stick? Shit. Just gets weirder here every time I come back.

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

Well, it's from his tree, yeah. I dunno if that's any weirder than anything else, like the whole thing with the angry monster lady who hatched from an egg and stole all our colors for a while.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

Huh.

So how do you meet Death? I got a thing or two to say to it.

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

Well, obviously I tried posting a message. But I think there's only one way anywhere but here, and it's the one most people are trying to avoid.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

Did that one and didn't see anyone. Death's a shit deal.

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

Huh. I dunno, maybe you just believed in a shit afterlife.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

You think it matters what I believe in?

What d' you believe in?

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

I dunno. I'm not sure I really buy whether it matters how good you were by anybody else's moral standards. And I'm not really sure what I believe in, because I've always believed there was something, but--who knows, right? And now I believe it involves getting to see old friends and maybe dodging ninjas, hey, why not? I believe a lot of things depend on your state of mind.

But if you're dead, you should know more than I do about all that.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

[There's a long, thoughtful pause that, from the sounds of it, also serves as an opportunity to light a cigarette.]

...Ninjas?

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

I think there was something about ninjas. So I hear.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

Guess I'm doing the dead thing wrong.

You ever get ninjas here? I remember zombies and shit, but no ninjas.

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

For a while I wondered if my sitar player was a ninja, but that was silly of me. I mean, except for that one time when he was during a curse.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

Yeah, sure, but curses don't count and ninjas wouldn't play sitars. They'd play... y'know, air guitar. Something quiet.

You're in a band?

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

I guess.

Yeah, were releasing an album in a few weeks. It's sorta hard to keep a thing like that going in the City, but were managing so far.

[audio]

[is_the_walrus]

Good luck with that. City's not too bad for artists, y'know?

[audio]

[shiverandsing]

Thanks. It's been pretty good for me, I guess, it's just not easy to hold a band together, with people disappearing.