Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Paperplanes @ the Prospector in Long Beach



Reflections: A dialogue through vinyl cracks



The Paperplanes had finished grooving when the DJ took over. The following conversation with Jim, as I remember it, occurred roughly 3 feet from a big black speaker looming overhead.

Me: So how have you been?!
Jim: What?!
Me: Hello there!
Jim: I'm telling you, we need to ride Kern River!
Me: On one of those big safe rafts?!
Jim: Fuck no. We need inner tubes!
Me: Oh!
Jim: We need to pack boxes of beer in a sort of floating device and drag them from our inner tubes!
Jim: We'll rip a hole in top just big enough so our fists will fit through! That way we can simply reach in and grab one!
Me: That sounds good!
Jim: We have to make sure we're finished drinking before we hit each rapid!
Jim: When you go through the rapids you get knocked around and if you have half of a beer in your hand what's going to happen?!

Me: It will fill with water!
Jim: Are you going to want to drink that shit!
Me: Yes?

Jim: What?!
Me: No!
Jim: That's why we have to finish drinking the beer!
Me: How crazy are the rapids?!
Jim: People die there every year! (laughs)
Me: ...

8 comments:

Jack Crusade said...

HMMMMM, prospector creepyness. Hey I just got my package in the mail, nice, I will scan it and post it soon, there is some funny 1970s ads in there.

phases said...

"are some funny 1970's ads" not is you hillbilly

Anonymous said...

In the first photo of me (felling my new bikes front forks?) it appears as though the indian in the painting behind me wants to scalp me, but is a bit dissapointed to observe that Ive already been scalped.

dean said...

I thought it looked like you were letting air out of the tires.

Rotten Little Pony said...

The Grammar Police are in full effect. Or is it "affect?" "Effect?"

Anonymous said...

"...is in full effect." See, you have grouped The Grammar Police together. So even though there are multiple people correcting grammar in the group, the group becomes a singular entity in which all members correct grammar together because that's the job of The Grammar Police. There for, "The Grammar Police is in full effect." For example, the jury is in the back room pretending to understand the hamburglar case while Ronald McDonald touches his French fry. Not: The jury are in the back room pretending to understand the hamburglar case while Ronald McDonald touches his French fry. :)

Jack Crusade said...

blah blah blah, the jim conversation was bitchen!

Rotten Little Pony said...

I agree! Conversations with Jim! That's entertainment!