4.) [accidental video.]
May. 15th, 2011 11:01 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ijustlivehere[Neil awakes to the staccato blaring of an alarm clock and a few gentle initiatory flute notes (not that there's an actual flute to be seen anywhere). He sits up, clumsily shuts off the alarm, yawns and stretches exaggeratedly.]
I'm alone! Boy, I sure am glad the ghost of Knives Chau has disappeared overnight. I thought maybe that curse would last forever! It's good to have my room to myself again.
[The way he's speaking is definitely odd-- it's very measured and precise, and quite a bit louder than normal. Speaking of odd things, the sounds of a guitar and a synthesizer matching each other exactly note-for-note can be heard fading in from nowhere. Drums and bass kick up too as Neil suddenly jumps up so he's standing on his bed, and begins dancing and singing:]
Sometimes I wish I had a farm
Where the only pollution is your cigarettes
Where your mind is clear
But I like it here
In my small space
This is the place
Where the sidewalks know my face
As I walk to--
[Here, Neil jumps off the bed, and expands his stage to include the entire room.]
--My apartment, the home where I hide
Away from all the darkness
Outside
In my apartment, the home where I hide
Away from all the darkness
Outside.
I'm there all the time.
[Neil carries on like this for a while, and thenexits stage left leaves the room.]
((ooc: Sing and Shout curse! Today Neil is the lead of basically the worst musical ever. blue text is for musical numbers. HE IS WILLING TO SERENADE ANYONE AND EVERYONE, SO COME AND GET IT. Even if you've never met Neil before, he'll find something to sing to/at you about. Seriously.
The above is a Ben Kweller tune, by the way. Ben Kweller is basically the real-life version of Young Neil, as far as I'm concerned. Neil will likely be drawing a lot from him, as well as a few of his favourite bands, throughout the day.))
I'm alone! Boy, I sure am glad the ghost of Knives Chau has disappeared overnight. I thought maybe that curse would last forever! It's good to have my room to myself again.
[The way he's speaking is definitely odd-- it's very measured and precise, and quite a bit louder than normal. Speaking of odd things, the sounds of a guitar and a synthesizer matching each other exactly note-for-note can be heard fading in from nowhere. Drums and bass kick up too as Neil suddenly jumps up so he's standing on his bed, and begins dancing and singing:]
Sometimes I wish I had a farm
Where the only pollution is your cigarettes
Where your mind is clear
But I like it here
In my small space
This is the place
Where the sidewalks know my face
As I walk to--
[Here, Neil jumps off the bed, and expands his stage to include the entire room.]
--My apartment, the home where I hide
Away from all the darkness
Outside
In my apartment, the home where I hide
Away from all the darkness
Outside.
I'm there all the time.
[Neil carries on like this for a while, and then
((ooc: Sing and Shout curse! Today Neil is the lead of basically the worst musical ever. blue text is for musical numbers. HE IS WILLING TO SERENADE ANYONE AND EVERYONE, SO COME AND GET IT. Even if you've never met Neil before, he'll find something to sing to/at you about. Seriously.
The above is a Ben Kweller tune, by the way. Ben Kweller is basically the real-life version of Young Neil, as far as I'm concerned. Neil will likely be drawing a lot from him, as well as a few of his favourite bands, throughout the day.))
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:00 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-16 12:08 am (UTC)[He sighs.]
I mean, it's pointless because she wasn't even really here, but I kinda wish she had been.
[Sure enough, invisible backing music is swelling up again.]
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-16 12:21 am (UTC)It feels worse than you said it would.
[Here, Neil points a mock-accusing finger at Stephen.]
She's gone--
But not forever.
When I know I'm never wanted
I tuck away in my turtle shell.
I've standed on this hex forever.
[He throws his head back, then turns to face and address someone who isn't there-- presumably a Knives that even Neil himself can't see this time.]
I need you back,
I need you here
To take away all of my pain
And then my fear.
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
Like a ghost on her darkest visit,
You got my soul, now baby why is it
Gone gone gone?
Take it from me.
You are free if you can sleep at night,
You really must be hard if you're feelin' all right.
Hey, hey, hey,
We're way uptown.
We gotta turn around.
I need you back
And I need you here
To take away all of my pain
And then my fear.
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
Hey!
Hey, I need you back,
Yeah.
I need you back
Yeah, I need you here
To take away all of my pain
And then my fear.
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
Hey!
Hey, I need you back!
I'm so lost without you.
[Yeesh, that was the longest one yet. Neil's shoulders slump in over-exaggerated exhaustion.]
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:24 am (UTC)2/2
Date: 2011-05-16 12:24 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-16 12:30 am (UTC)[Neil looks weary.]
A-apparently... I have a lot of feelings today.
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:38 am (UTC)At least you're working through them?
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Date: 2011-05-16 12:46 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-16 12:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-05-16 01:00 am (UTC)How do you usually cope with it?
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:39 am (UTC)I dunno. Power through, man?
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:43 am (UTC)I mean, as soon as this thing is over and I stop singing stuff.
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:50 am (UTC)Speaking of, we're having a gig tonight, if you wanna come. Curt's turned into a girl for the weekend, but apparently we're just going to roll with it.
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Date: 2011-05-16 01:56 am (UTC)Dude, totally! I haven't heard you play with a band in, like... forever.