28 Red Letters

[eat_me_beat_me]

[Nora has finally decided to bite the bullet and go out into the snow. She figures it's probably going to be around for at least another month so she might as well do something, right?

Right.

So she's decided to try her hand at snow sculptures. Some might just make snow men. She got a little more creative with the idea. She's set herself up a fair distance away from the strange people under the light, not wanting to be disrespectful of whatever that's supposed to be. Humming softly to herself she puts the finishing touches on a shark heading straight for an unsuspecting snowman.]

((OOC: That's right, kids. Nora's making Calvin and Hobbes snowmen outside. COME JOIN HER! She, uh, may have put firecrackers in a few of them, too. So watch out for exploding snowmen.))

Comments

[both_neither]

Different, but in a lot of ways...very much the same.

[eat_me_beat_me]

How's it different? Like... Are there still all the different countries and continents and everything? Or did one country take over like you see in all the movies?

[both_neither]

No. Actually, humanity mostly lives on other planets nowadays. Mars is the dominant colony, but there are others...like Callisto. Not many people still live on Earth.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Other planets? Really? In my time no one's even gone to Mars, let alone moved there.

[both_neither]

Humanity is pretty good at that progress thing, and, well, once they invented the hyperspace gates it got a lot simpler.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Hyperspace gates... Man, things changed a lot since my time...

[both_neither]

Things change but...people are still people.

[eat_me_beat_me]

That's good, at least. What else would you like to know about my time? I don't know a lot but I'm more than happy to share what I do know.

[both_neither]

I don't know. It was kind of a silly question.

How about this...what's the music like?

Gah! Sorry I lost this one! D:

[eat_me_beat_me]

The music? [She grins] I can tell you about the music, sure. That's how my boyfriend and I met, actually. He does the radio show on Monday nights. He did that back home.

It depends on what kinda music you're into, I guess. There's rock, rap, alternative, classic rock, some've that weird hippie stuff from the 60s is still floating around... every decade had some pretty crazy shit, too. God don't get me started on disco in the 70s. Um... Oh I don't know, there's a lot of stuff out there. What kinda music do you like? I can tell you what we have that's like it.

no problems :)

[both_neither]

[he smiles] Jazz, mostly. But I like a lot of things. It's just...well...a lot of stuff got lost after the turn of the century, including music. I mean, people saved a lot of course, but I think a lot of the obscure stuff got forgotten.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Jazz, huh? I don't listen to a lot of jazz, myself, but lemme think.

Oh! I know of one! Castle, uh, a boombox? [A boombox appears next to her in the snow and she thinks for a moment before a cassette appears in her hand. She slips it into the tape deck and hitting play.]

[both_neither]

[Gren smirks, wryly]

Kiiiiiinda like that. Mmmm.

Let me give you a better example...

[He wishes up another tape and puts that in instead] Hmm...not a format I remember...but hopefully this will work.

[He pushes the play button]

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She closes her eyes, listening.]

Mmm. I like that.

[both_neither]

[He smiles, watching her] It's something isn't it? Coltrane was a god among mortals. In the musical sense, mostly, though I heard some church back on Earth made him a saint.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She opens her eyes, looking curiously at him]

Someone sainted him? You're fucking kidding me.

[both_neither]

Nope. Scout's honor. Says a lot for the power of music, huh?

[eat_me_beat_me]

Yeah. That's fucking impressive. [She grins] more musicians should be honored like that.

[both_neither]

Heh. Maybe. It's that or tourist destinations, really.

[eat_me_beat_me]

[She chuckles] At least they're being remembered somehow, right?

[both_neither]

That's right. And that's more than most people can hope for.

[eat_me_beat_me]

Yeah. Too many great artists of all genres just fall off the radar.