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[starmark]

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[starmark]

what was your grandmother like?

[manuscripture]

She was a nice lady. She ran an inn I used to like visiting. Dignified without being frumpy. A little bossy.

As grandmothers typically are.

What about your mother? You mentioned her... when we met I think.

[ like when jotaro asked if she died and he was like ?????? ]

[starmark]

...

you know that girl anna? the princess

she's a lot like that. loud and annoying and too optimistic and nosy and doesn't know when to leave well enough alone. she hides things that are wrong so that she's not bothering anyone else. she sings while she does chores. my best friend once said that if he ever got married he'd want to marry someone like her. he said she's a person who makes other people feel at ease.

you know how some people are just...

good?

that's mom. she's not like normal people. she's too good for that.

[manuscripture]

I can see how you take after her.

[starmark]

...what?

i'm nothing like my mom

i just got done telling you how different she is

[manuscripture]

Are you really convinced that you are not a good person?

[starmark]

not good like that

i'm not good like a fucking...sings to the birds and they sing back princess, or something

[manuscripture]

Please don't sing to the birds here.

Play your guitar at them. You are good at that.

[ play it directly at the birds so they go away. ]

[starmark]

i'd sooner play it at you

you're not getting tired of tears for fears and the rolling stones, are you

[manuscripture]

You can keep playing it at me.

Do you have more in your repertoire or is that all you've got?

[starmark]

well

i don't know anything from after 1987 really

but in my defense that's because it doesn't exist yet

[manuscripture]

More bands existed than Tears For Fears and The Rolling Stones.

Consider: Paul McCartney, The Velvet Underground, The Kinks, Billy Joel. Guns 'n Roses had a thing for ballads in the mid to late 80's when they dropped Appetite for Destruction. Use Your Illusion II from 1991 was my favorite album if I had to pick.

[ obligatory Jojos Know About Music. ]

[starmark]

well

you've got better taste than one of my friends

every time we let him pick the radio he'd always go looking for madonna

or blondie

fucking BLONDIE

[manuscripture]

Blondie?

Blondie never should have had an album after Parallel Lines. Your friend's taste was God awful.

Madonna still has a huge following back at home for being avant garde and frankly a little risque for the media. I don't think she is someone I have disliked.

Blondie is not forgivable. I'm sorry to have to say that.

[starmark]

why would you be sorry about that

blondie is terrible

especially when the only lyric you know with any reliability is ONE WAY OR ANOTHER I'M GONNA FIND YA I'M GONNA GETCHA GETCHA GETCHA GETCHA and all you do is sing it fucking over and over and over again at full volume

[manuscripture]

[ since they are a room or so over and an apartment-- no matter how nice --is still an apartment, Jotaro might hear laughter coming from through one of the walls. ]

It is one of the worst earworms to exist in modern music that transcends the decade it was born in.

I'm glad that you hate it enough to not play it. I would have to throw the guitar out the window too.

If it stays stuck in my head for the rest of the night, however, that is your fault.

[starmark]

yeah it's definitely not because i don't know how

that damn song is only like four chords over and over again

and if it gets stuck in your head then tell me and i'll get my guitar out and play something else to get it out again

[manuscripture]

It's stuck in my head.

[starmark]

that quickly?

[manuscripture]

Should I sing it to prove it?

[starmark]

no

all right hang on i'll play this other one i know

maybe you'll even recognize it

but it's good for the acoustic, where for a lot of them i really need an electric guitar and a real amp

[And shortly thereafter, musical stylings can be heard from the next room over.]

[manuscripture]

[ Give it about two or so minutes. ]

Play through it twice more.

I'm going back to sleep.

Goodnight, Jotaro.

[starmark]

rohan

wait

before i do that

[manuscripture]

What?

1/2

[starmark]

...

um

sweet dreams, i guess