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Clouddead, Clouddead
Mush, May 1, 2001
Track Listing: 1. Apt. A (1), 2. Apt. A (2), 3. And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1), 4. And All You Can Do Is Laugh (2), 5. I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (1), 6. I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (2), 7. JimmyBreeze (1), 8. JimmyBreeze (2), 9. (Cloud Dead Number Five) (1), 10. (Cloud Dead Number Five) (2), 11. Bike (1), 12. Bike (2)
Garry (Donald Moffat): The generator’s gone.
MacReady (Kurt Russell): Any way we can we fix it?
Garry: It’s gone, MacReady.
What’s happening?
“The cloud is dead, the fog has cleared
the sun is peaking through a happy little tree”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
Heard it from a friend who heard it from a friend who heard it from … his son. Pupil-turned-teacher. Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ …
“Put another dime in the jukebox”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
Into the future. It’s a full moon. Before or after the dawn.
“Sunset is an all day process”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
Always, the memories … He tells me about a time in 1961, in Spring Valley, Illinois. The sky lit up from the horizon first—an aurora borealis—and the Dance of the Spirits lasted all night long, flickering charges of life into our 2010 phone conversation, light years from one-nine-three-three.
“Scared, back onto the swing set
Tastefully terrible caricature of construction man
Back and forth, back and forth”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
We are at Watt’s house, in front of a TV, sixth or seventh grade. Will was there too. Shag carpet, a VCR, a stack of rated R’s.
Narrator (John Larroquette): The film which you are about to see is an account of the tragedy which befell a group of five youths …
Now, it is the scameras that will get you …
Johnny (Russell Streiner): They’re coming to get you, Barbara …
And man, do they suck. They say the yellow light is much shorter at those intersections, just enough to get you, a white flash—ready-for-your-close-up?—a real life quick and dirty Chicago-style assassination.
Narrator: … in particular Sally Hardesty and her invalid brother, Franklin. It is all the more tragic in that they were young.
If you think you’ve survived, no, you’re dead. In the economic crunch, City Hall got all creative on our asses. Ticket’s in the mail.
“Saving myself on one day
tarred and feathered for life on the next”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
Pay up or else. After all, it was your fault.
He didn’t notice that the light had changed.
“What was I doing?
What was I doing?
rhythm, rhythm
rhythm, rhythm”
-from “And All You Can Do Is Laugh (1)”
Down, down, down. Get down. The rappers reminisce, turn voices into beats, and it is sounding good. Of course, you disagree. Something about all the movie samples.
“It’s all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD
I only got two hands and half a head
It’s all the same shit but they call it cLOUDDEAD
I only got two hands and half a head”
-from “I Promise Never to Get Paint on My Glasses Again (1)”
She said she wasn’t going to see the movie Dinner for Schmucks because it was too mean-spirited. I asked her if she was just saying that because she worked in HR but she just half-smiled and left the room.
“A wise man once said, ‘Fuck ’em if they can’t take a joke.’”
-from “I Promise to Never Get Paint On My Glasses Again (1)”
And so, without further ado, this is my mashup. Haddonfield, Illinois … but no, that can’t be true, that place is fiction and besides, I’m not afraid of the Boogeyman. So instead, it’s Bodega Bay on a sunny day and all is well except for the fact we are running for our lives. And then …
wait for it …
And scene.
-G
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