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Late nights all alone with a test tube.

Dec 13, 2007 10:33

There was definitely something off about the bookshelf in the Compound. Apparently it was too much to ask that Max be allowed to find something worth reading, because the whole goddamned thing was stuffed full with nothing but record albums. Shelf after shelf after shelf, and they were all by the same damned band. One Max had never heard of, to ( Read more... )

alex kerner, jude hubert, gordon cutter, satine, max carrigan

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herfinalsong December 13 2007, 16:10:47 UTC

"Silver hammer?" Satine repeated the last two words carefully, curiosity lifting her mouth into a wondering expression. She closed the book that was opened previously across her lap and tilted her head to the blonde man a few feet away. "Have I heard you correctly?"

so_heavy December 13 2007, 16:20:03 UTC

"That's what it says," Max replied, and turned so that the woman could see the back of the album when he held it up. "Do you know it? I haven't even heard of this band before." Which was strange, as being friends with musicians ensured you listened to a lot of music, whether you wanted to or not.

herfinalsong December 13 2007, 17:58:37 UTC

Satine rose to her feet, interested now. "No, I do not," she said, "but I'm finding I do not know much about this place or the things here. What is it?"

so_heavy December 13 2007, 22:26:48 UTC

"It's a song, I'm guessing," Max replied, and slid the record album from its sleeve with a hopeful arch of his brows. "What do you say, should we give it a listen and find out?"

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alex_kerner December 13 2007, 16:35:44 UTC

"Best album," Alex said, reclining on his couch. He had considered taking a nap, which was never a good idea due to the fact that his couch/bed also happened to be in the middle of the Rec Room. People kept coming in and out so he had his Walkman on in an attempt to drown it out and was almost asleep, but at the mention of The Beatles he immediately perked up.

"And Maxwell is good, but I like Polythene Pam more."

so_heavy December 13 2007, 16:40:45 UTC

"Yeah?" Max asked, and swung his gaze around to the kid slouched on the couch, who happened to look like Jude, if Jude had been younger and German. "I've never even heard of this band. Were they around in '68?"

alex_kerner December 13 2007, 16:48:12 UTC

Alex laughed. "Yeah. The Beatles were around all over the sixties. Until they stopped in 1970. They were the biggest band in the sixties, probably the biggest band ever. They were so important that the people were not even allowed to play their music in East Germany for a long time."

so_heavy December 13 2007, 16:51:18 UTC

"No shit?" Max flipped the album back over again and gave the image on the front a critical stare. "I might be wrong, but in my version of planet Earth, these guys don't exist." Unless the kid was exaggerating. Max glanced up again. "You have the Stones in your world?"

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listentomystory December 13 2007, 20:54:50 UTC

"Beatles?" Jude remarked. He had been walking by when he heard Max's familiar voice talking about a song he had looked over a few times. "The shelf keeps giving me them, too. Haven't actually listened to them, yet, though. Just peered over their songs and I remember that one because of you." He gave out a small laugh and leaned against the door frame.

so_heavy December 13 2007, 22:33:38 UTC

Max flapped the album at Jude. "Someone wants me to know about these guys, and I just wanted a fucking copy of Hot Rod or Playboy," he sighed, and tossed the album back on the shelf.

"What're you doing? I'm going stir-crazy in this place."

listentomystory December 14 2007, 00:04:36 UTC

Jude's hands, which were in his pockets, raised up his jacket a little to show that he had no idea. "Nothing, really. All I do here is walked around, mostly." He was tempted to add in "and your sister" but he decided against it and walked a little farther into the room.

holdthebucket December 13 2007, 21:36:29 UTC

"Ah, the Beatles," boomed Gordon Cutter, high as a kite, but not seeming so. He was reclined in one of the deep arm chairs, feet up by the fire. He had not opened his eyes.

"Band of the very century. Definition of a decade." His face grew slightly more stern. "Hippies. But very good at what they did. I was...twenty-three years old when that album came out. I remember it well."

Or, really, very hazily. Lucy in the sky with diamonds, indeed.

so_heavy December 13 2007, 22:38:05 UTC

Max blinked at the sound of the voice, and took a moment to locate the source. "I don't know, man. I know some hippies and these guys don't look like hippies to me," he countered, holding up the album in demonstration. "I don't know any hippie that wears a suit."

holdthebucket December 13 2007, 23:19:50 UTC

"Ah?" he said, casting a quick glance over at the album cover and nodding. "You may know tree-huggers and draft dodgers, but the Beatles were a force, my boy. A movement of their own."

He closed his eyes again. "Suits or no."