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Date: 2023-11-19 03:39 am (UTC)
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[He shakes his head] No, that part's sweet, I just mean it's... very bouncy? Like, it sounds like circus music? Or is that just because it was only guitar and not the rest of the instruments?

[He shrugs at the rest] I don't know if I'd end up liking it or not, I guess, but you also said a concept album does have a plot, like I'd have to actually pay attention, but this one isn't? So if I manage to listen to the whole thing I won't have to pay a lot of attention or I will?

Date: 2023-11-19 04:02 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (vampire costume)
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Okay see now that makes more sense, I mean, I think? [It had made sense while she was talking, but thinking it through himself the idea starts to fall apart a little] Ignoring the Beatles and the Dr. Pepper for now, I mean just in general. Is it more like an opera where the songs are all parts of the same story? Or just like each one is its own story but they're related like... I don't know, a collection of essays on a theme?

Date: 2023-11-19 04:42 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (windblown)
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Right, Sergeant [It's quiet, but he's definitely mostly following. The whole... well concept, is new to him] I just didn't know that was something you could do with an album.

[There's some kind of awe there, even an edge of surprise] Like, I guess I always figured it was just 'hi, here's the stuff we wrote since our last album, hope you still like us' or whatever, and like, that's why a lot of bands have one or two hits and then you never hear about them again.

Date: 2023-11-19 05:32 am (UTC)
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That makes sense, I mean if it's weird and new, who's going to listen to that, right?

[He actually pauses to give that a moment's thought, brow creasing a little once he does] Actually I might, but I'm definitely an outlier, I mean, most people actually know what kind of music they like by now, and I'm still figuring that out.

Date: 2023-11-19 06:18 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (windblown startle)
From: [personal profile] ccunningham
[Oh he's definitely impressed, and not just because he's got the musical capabilities of a tree stump himself.

Okay maybe like 60-75% that part, but he's still impressed so it still counts. Mostly he's just trying to figure out how she gets her fingers to move like that.]


Yeah? You think you've got me all figured out already? Or do you think this is going to take some time? I might have to come back and see what else you've got?

Date: 2023-11-20 06:04 am (UTC)
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[He can't help but smile in return, mostly because hers is infectious in the best way, but also because nobody's made him that kind of offer before, either and that's enough to light him up inside, at least a little bit.] Yeah? Sounds like we've got our work cut out for us, then.

[His head tilts a little, considering] And I'm not sure yet if you're already doing good at this because you're tipsy or if you'll be even better at figuring it out if you're sober.

Date: 2023-11-21 03:02 am (UTC)
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[He laughs, shaking his head] That's not what I meant, I mean, or maybe it is? [Another head shake, still smiling, just leaning back on his hands again] I just meant figuring out what I might like to listen to, that's what you're good at, and I can't wait to find out if it's because you're tipsy or in spite of it, you know?

[He's pretty sure it's in spite of, and she'll be better at it sober, but he's not sure.]

Date: 2023-11-21 04:17 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (out of doors)
From: [personal profile] ccunningham
[They don't, not really, but it's hardly their fault, considering that who he is at school is who they think he actually is, since he's only allowed to attend approved extracurricular activities and gatherings, and parties only if Jason's also going so they can keep each other out of trouble.

Which really doesn't work as well as Laura Cunningham thinks it does, and usually just means that Chris comes home early from the few post-game parties he attends because he doesn't like being there in general.

Jason knows him best, but will still claim that Chris' favorite color is green, because they've always had the same favorite color, and Chris won't bother to correct him because they've never had the same favorite color because his favorite color has always been blue.

Right at the moment, however, he just smiles again, shaking his head]
I feel like I should probably object to being called easy, but I'm not gonna.

Date: 2023-11-21 04:48 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (on the porch)
From: [personal profile] ccunningham
That's because you mean it. [His brow furrows] Or don't mean it, I don't know, whichever one means you're not using it just to get a rise out of me or to be mean.

[That's really what it comes down to, she's using it because it amuses her, but not necessarily at his expense, at least, that's what he thinks is going on, basically it hasn't been derogatory any of the times she's used it and that's the important part.

He runs a hand through his hair to pull it back from his face as he snorts softly at the follow-up question]
I mean we literally just established that I know fuck-all about music, so, I don't know. What's the song you like playing most?

Date: 2023-11-21 06:22 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (head turn)
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[Once again he listens with something like total fascination, utterly rapt again and it's only when she finishes that he smiles again] That's Bob Dylan, right?

[He shakes his head, biting the corner of his lip before explaining] It's stupid, how I know, but um, one of the youth pastors put Forever Young on the summer camp sing along list one year, and some of the parents had a huge meltdown about it, because Dylan's a communist or something, but he's definitely immoral and we were all going to end up going to hell just because of one song.

But a complaint like that, getting the pastor disbarred, which is lawyers, but same thing, basically a step below excommunication which is stripping him of all his titles and whatever [he shakes his head again realizing he's going off on a side tangent] basically to get that done they had to prove to the diocese, that's the church higher-ups, that this pastor was teaching false doctrines or something.

[His laugh is dry as he runs a hand through his hair again] So there's my mom, sitting at the kitchen table in any free time she has for a week solid with a rosary to protect her, listening to Bob Dylan with this little portable tape deck, and copying down lyrics from the liner notes, or transcribing them herself when there aren't any, just to prove her point.

Date: 2023-11-22 05:05 am (UTC)
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[He shakes his head at the question] Nope, I mean, sometimes she takes in seamstressing, fixing hems or zippers or whatever that other people can't or don't want to, but it's not like it's an actual job, it's just so she can feel superior to the ladies who can't, but hiding behind being helpful.

Anyway [he waves a hand in front of his face as if to brush that aside, because while he knows on some level that his mother's level of control isn't normal, he's not to the point of being able to say so himself.] he was only here for the summer, and then got moved on to another congregation, hopefully one that didn't try to make him lose his job over what's actually a pretty good song.

[He'd listened to it a couple times, and can remember the tune if not all the words, but he remembers it felt hopeful, if a little sad.

He goes quiet at the rest, just listening, taking in the information, brow creasing a little before saying anything, not sure if he should]
That's a good connection to have though, right?

Date: 2023-11-25 12:35 am (UTC)
ccunningham: (out of doors)
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Oh it could definitely be worse, he could genuinely enjoy devotional music.

[Truthfully he's not sure if his mother actually enjoys the stuff or if she's just convinced herself she does, or it's just some new level of keeping control of the household, but the only times he's seen her even close to being a normal human being is when she's humming along to the Harmonettes or Richard & Judy Lee while sewing or washing dishes.]

Or opera, he could be really into opera, that would be worse than, uh, what was it, 'old-man country'?

[He's biting back a smile even as he says it mostly because he knows that's exactly what she called it, but also because he can't imagine Wayne would have the patience for something like that, especially if it's in Italian or German.]

Date: 2023-11-27 07:26 am (UTC)
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The chants are cool. [He agrees, easy as anything, because they are and some days he wishes he had that kind of vocal control. He's good enough for choir, but not for solos, and that's about where he wants to be most of the time.]

And now I kind of want to know what story-games you've got going on where Gregorian chants are the right kind of ambiance, but I'm not sure I actually want to know, you know?

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