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Coffee script
Saturday, May 9, 2009
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GK: ……everybody’s overextended these days, rushing to catch up, doing ten things at once — mowing the lawn (SFX), raising the umbrella (SFX) over the table on the patio, opening up the garage (AUTOMATIC GARAGE DOOR OPENS) and cleaning out the flotsam and jetsam (RUMMAGING) putting up the wind chimes (WIND CHIMES) and that puts you in the mood to meditate (SITAR, TABLA), but you’ve got to take your jaguar for a walk (SFX), and the ice cream truck comes by (ICE CREAM TRUCK) and the jaguar wants some ice cream (SFX) and when a jaguar wants ice cream, you’ve got to go along with that so you buy six, eight, ten ice cream cones and the jaguar eats them up (SFX) and now you’ve got to blow up the inflatable swimming pool (SFX) which seems twice as big (SFX) and you’re about to black out and then you see there’s a leak in it and you stop— and you’re dizzy (SFX) and disoriented and you’re talking strangely, saying strange things.
TR (SWEDISH)
SS: How can you say a thing like that?
TR: (SWEDISH)
SS: Okay, but what about me? What about my needs???
TR: (SWEDISH)
SS: Why do you have to be like that? What is wrong with you?
GK: What’s wrong is that you work all day on repetitive tasks until your brain turns to jelly (SFX) and then you’ve got to fight your way through rush hour traffic (HONKING, YELLING) and come home and be charming and debonair—
FN (SINGS):
I am your husband in the cool white shorts
I love the arts and also follow sports
I know my wines, I’ve been to cooking school.
I’m Mister Cool, I’m Mister Cool.
GK: You’re expected to be a wage slave (WHIP).and wise father (DEEP GIBBERISH) and a party guy (WHOOPEE) and a good Christian (FAST: ‘forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us’) and a handyman (SAWING, HAMMER) and a plumber (WRENCH) and still be awake at midnight to be a fabulous lover (HI. IT’S ME…..CORKSCREW, CORK. POUR) and when it comes to wakefulness, there’s nothing like coffee.
(COFFEE JINGLE)
Smells so lovely when you pour it
You will want to drink a quart
Of coffee
It’s delicious all alone, it’s
Also good with doughnuts
Black coffee.
In a condo or a teepee
A person can get sleepy
No matter your vocation
You need recaffeination
If you plan to stay up later
And be a nymph or a satyr, try coffee.
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