Obituaries: Election day in Basin City

[Sepia]

I've heard it for many weeks now, even though I never listen to a radio, don't own a tv and only buy the weekend newspapers, I've seen the bold typefaces across the tabloids and I know it's that time again, it's election time. It is a disease in all our hearts, politics. Some of us follow it and believe in it, some of are agnostic or even atheistic. We're sitting in one of the bars that have heating lamps outside in the backyard where we drink beer and pernod as we chain lighters at a time, we're discussing, talking and we end up in politics but it would never be I who brought it up but somewhere in the conversation you say Well atleast it's not like america, I mean, we have more freedom than they'll ever have with their two-party system.

I walk through the streets of oslo as I hear the sound, as I realize that reality is so hard to anticipate, that it strikes like lightning but it strikes several times at the same spot and I'd forgotten for the time being how dumb we are. We've come a long way with our emotions but we're still kinda dumb. I see in all your eyes that you are telling the truth and you're obsessed with it, not the truth but the action of telling it to anyone who listens. We do not care if people hear for we are shallow creatures, we want to be heard, nothing more. You children, moving through the streets, I used to be you before except I didn't carry a flag but I've sung my stanzas from L'Internationale, often failingly, rhyming to a beat from the 19th century.  You still carry hope as a torch infront of you, hoping it will illuminate your path for you but you look like a little kid, fourteen and a man taking a puff from a cigarette, getting smoke in the eye.

We drag into these sleepy dreams and I try to scream and push and get away, I'm slumbering in a dead hour, I'm alone in my apartment and early autumn is seen through the window and I sit like a lotus, repeating a mantra that will undo the world infront of my eyes and we will all forget that we exist, timed bombs in a barren landscape and from our loins come the flowing forgiveness. These are what people are, we aren't angels and we'll never be angels, never be saints or heroes or kings for more than a day for we are all the fool and what space does the fool occupy? Is it the first, the last or both?

[The Johnny]

i was scourging the internets looking for very detailed information on the different music albums i have, and i got to "Elephant" by the White Stripes (not on the top of my list, but some are allright).

On one song, some woman collaborates vocals - Holly Golightly.

I decided to look up pictures of her, and, Audrey Hepburn showed up, the picture you are using. I was confused by it saying Audrey Hepburn playing Holly Golightly, since chronologically and fame speaking Hepburn is more famous than some random garage rock girl.

Then i looked deeper into the issue and realized its her character in the Breakfast Club.

Anyways...

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

i was scourging the internets looking for very detailed information on the different music albums i have, and i got to "Elephant" by the White Stripes (not on the top of my list, but some are allright).

On one song, some woman collaborates vocals - Holly Golightly.

I decided to look up pictures of her, and, Audrey Hepburn showed up, the picture you are using. I was confused by it saying Audrey Hepburn playing Holly Golightly, since chronologically and fame speaking Hepburn is more famous than some random garage rock girl.

Then i looked deeper into the issue and realized its her character in the Breakfast Club.

Anyways...

Molly Ringwald played Audrey Hepburn in The Breakfast Club? I'm confused.

[Jenne]

These are what people are, we aren't angels and we'll never be angels, never be saints or heroes or kings for more than a day for we are all the fool and what space does the fool occupy? Is it the first, the last or both?

all 3, I fear...all 3


LOVE this quote.  But then, very little I don't love about the writing, Sepia.

[The Johnny]

Then i looked deeper into the issue and realized its her character in the Breakfast Club Breakfast at Tiffany's.

On a totally unrelated note, Madonna used to play in a band called The Breakfast Club...

And just for kicks, id like to mention Breakfast at Tiffany's and The Breakfast Club films are 23 years apart.

[Sepia]

i was scourging the internets looking for very detailed information on the different music albums i have, and i got to "Elephant" by the White Stripes (not on the top of my list, but some are allright).

Tell more lies.

[The Johnny]

Sorry, im out of interesting ones.