Wednesday, June 26, 2019

Musical

If you let some thing go long enough then it will become meta. Except for this blog which was meta from the first point because I imagine everyone knew the intricate backstory and references of failed blogs of years prior.

And I am not clever enough to have come up with that. Its a TV Tropes thing for sure. But they will make in jokes or maybe even have an episode where all these things come to a head. Or there is a musical episode because why not!? I sound great in the car so lets sing!

I sometimes think about a musical at work. I am going about my day and we break into song.

Its kinetic as people bounce around from room to room and complete tasks.Its a Busby Berkeley routine set to Jimmy Eat World's "Authority Song"



Its how the hustle goes
see what the jukebox knows...

See it is us walking in to start the day and this replaces all the usual pleasantries and good mornings. Lets get ready to go. The jukebox is checking messages and morning announcements.

Or in a very kinetic motion I hit a literal jukebox that pushes out these announcements in pop art styles that flash on the screen. Maybe I spin a coworker in a big twirl so she leans back and hit this jukebox to start the scene. In this montage I am 40 lbs lighter. And coordinated.

Honesty or Mystery?
Tell me I'm not scared anymore

Again, lets do this. Its me and 4 other people climbing up the stairs backward and snapping fingers. This whole thing has this 50s big band Grease feel and its hackneyed but the song fits it. Someone vaults over a staircase railing in this montage and they Parkour spin to land elegantly on the ground.

And that chorus..."Do I-I-I-I-I-I-I?"

You know there are five ladies poking out of offices and classrooms to sing that. Just their heads poking out from the door frame to fill the space.

Mind you this whole montage ends with people getting to their desks. Its like that opening scene in La La Land where everyone zips and jives on the freeway before it ends with one single sweep of every door and keystroke of a log in.

Before all that for sure it will become much more active and people spin from room to room. Switch chairs that they slide over the office to each other.

If those were Roy's headphones
You bet he play What Goes on

This line befuddles me but I deal with headphones so I imagine someone popping out from out of frame with broken headphones and a frown on their face. Then I take a look and pocket them to fix later but uttering this line for sure.

Ah well I'm here
That means something doesn't it

I already said how this ends so maybe we should close on here?




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