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Sunday, 23 May 2021

LEEKED SKRIPT OF FREINZ!!!!!!!! OMGOMGOM!!! COMEBAK EPSOID!!!

COPYRIGHT JOLLYWOOD STUDIO AL RITES TRAVERSED 2021 OK NO FUNY BUYSNES U COK


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FAde In:

PRE CREDITS

NEW YORK. 10pm. Another busy night on the streets. Cars whizz past. It is raining and dark. People scurry back and forth. TWO CHARACTERS are sheltering underneath a cafe awning. We cannot quite make out their features in the gloom, but suffice it to say they are both unutterable cunts.

Character 1

Huh could it be any more raining.

Character 2

Huh I like a food booob What are YOU doingk

Character 1

Could I RAINING more better

Character 2

huh sex uh uh

FADE TO

CAFE, INT. It may once have been a hip place for awesome people to sit on chairs backwards and talk absolute inane fuckheadness about their fucking ridiculous and quite insufferable lives, but no longer. It has one sad, buzzing bulb, flickering. A bedraggled SOFA stinks near the battered old SERVING COUNTER, on which an exhausted-looking bald man leans. He is wearing stupid fucking braces or some shit and a stripy shirt, and an apron. He is crying into a filthy mop.

STRIPEY MAN

             I have wasted my life.



(BEAT)

A BELL tinkles. That must be the door! STRIPEY MAN LOOKS UP, excitedly. Could it be her? But no, it’s just the wind.

STRIPEY MAN

Not even a ghost. This is worse than a million deaths.



ROLL CREDITS: A mournful dirge as the camera jerkily pans, cheap and outdated, from left to right. In the background is a half-ruined ornamental fountain, covered in graffiti and dogshit. The water has long since drained away, to be replaced by puke, stagnant foulness and inhuman stains. A TRAMP lurches into view, shouting incoherently as he first notices then approaches the camera. In a rage, he rushes at the camera, which falls over. Our view is of a bleak, unforgiving sky.

FX: Zip

FX: sounds of tramp pissing on camera



FADE IN:
SCENE ONE

EXT. SHOT: WIDE ON RIKER’S ISLAND

TIGHT SHOT: RIKER’S ISLAND CEMETERY. A perfunctory funeral is taking place. There is a rabbi, and an inmate chained to two guards.

RABBI

[Speaks Yiddish, chants Psalms, leads the Kaddish]

INMATE (Sotto voce, TRIUMPHANT):

Bronto was reclassified in 2015 as a separate genus from Apatosaurus, you dumb fuck.

The GUARDS take him away, without any further action. He has not been able to help fill the grave.

PAN OUT TO O/H DRONE VIEW

C/FADE TO: CONTROL ROOM, full of video screens of similar funerals in various places. REFLECTED in a certain screen is a WOMAN’s FACE.


WOMAN

You stupid goddamn motherfucker. They got to you too. You just wouldn’t listen would you. You dumbass.

She SLAMS her fist on the control unit. The picture cracks.

WIDE SHOT of full CONTROL ROOM. TWO OTHER WOMEN are in there with her.



WOMAN 2:

He’s uh you know star signs massage ooo look I am quirky lol smell my cat

WOMAN does not turn round. But we can see her shaking with rage.



WOMAN 2:

I am bad at guitar u know but everyone love me at the same time because I am some kind of non-threatening hippy only to the extent that I wear different clothes than the rest eee hooo hooooooo nwwwooooowoooo

WOMAN turns around and shoots her, as well as WOMAN 3, who just looks pretty with a fun haircut and a sassy attitude and is possibly the worst of the lot.

WOMAN

Goddamn hippy stinking motherfucker.



She turns back to the CONSOLE and waggles a joystick. One of the feeds starts to jerkily zoom in on the COFFEE SHOP we saw pre-credits.

The WOMAN smiles, and presses the big red button.

FX: EXPLOSION

FX: COFFEE SHOP IN RUBBLE. Through the choking smoke. We see parts of the TWO CUNTS from the awning, quite dead now, hither and thither. One of their stupid, fat heads rolls into the gutter, where a stray DOG pisses on it.

FAde Out TO FINAL CREDITS:


FREMZ REUNIUONS



the end



POST CREDITS

From deep underneath the smoking, jagged, destroyed COFFEE SHOP we can hear a single mournful voice, way in the distance. It seems unearthly. Troubled. Lost. Lovelorn. It is STRIPEY MAN, somewhere beneath it all, and he wails.

Voice of STRIPEY MAN

                She’s not even that fit.


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CAST

STRIPEY MAN: GUNTERS

TWO CUNTS: JOYEY AMND CHPADLER

INMATE: ROSES

WIMAN: MONIKSA

WIANS2: FEBEE

WIMMSA 3: RAELCH

GUARDS: ZIG AND ZAG

RABBI: VING RHAMES


Monday, 10 May 2021

Zombie Tap (from the Zombie musical, including Prelude)

 PRELUDE

(SPOTLIGHT on face of NARRATOR. Skeletal, ominous, grinning and clacking jaw. Hooded. The archetypal Death figure. Scythe, if you want)


NARRATOR’s PRELUDE:

I’ll give you some advice that I was taught once by a prodigy:

“Never trust a cannibal who wants to have you round for tea

And never give out favours to a man who lives in misery

He won’t know who to trust.”



You’ll find me in the breaths between the mutters of profanity.

I’m there inside your curses and your hallowed mediocrity,

And best of all for most of you, you’ll never get a sight of me

I watch you turn to dust.



Attractive though you think you are, your self-obsession just bores me,

I’m way past all that squelching silliness of sexuality,

My desiccated dreams are as repellent as morality.

Perhaps you smell their musk?



So here’s our tale of odious manipulative frippery,

Take time to check your chains are loose enough to clap our reverie.

Your prayers are out of date now. Are you burning for eternity

Beginning with our show?



And safe, still night, there is no time to talk of ravished royalty;

There is no underaged princess to sing to on her balcony,

No Capulets to copulate, no Montagues tonight. My fee

Is far too high, and, oh,



Oh, by the end of this torment, you’ll not have learned a thing, you see,

And if you’re wondering who granted me this rash authority

Just look into the mirror and consider this philosophy

I’m me, but even so

I think you probably know.

Keep up if you are slow.

This is the status quo:

I’m you

And you

And you

And maybe

You

Yes

You

(exit)

(Fade to black)


(syncopated flapper jazz, descending vocal melody by semitones, end of each (a capella and spoken) third line has either a clean ‘2-3-4’ break or a jazzy resolution back to the fifth then down to the root for start of next verse) I just realised it also sounds a bit like the verses of Something 4 the Weekend by SFA so that’s a good reference to the music if and when I write it bye ta



Spoken Word Intro over sust 7thish chord eg

F#CDGBF#

and in the aftermath of the apocalypse, the nuclear winds that had blown destruction and death upon the planet whistled at their achievement before fading away

Left behind was darkness personified. A landscape where all withered; poisoned plumes of dust dulled the sky, and all was dead.

And yet, in the distance, something stirred; an underside revealed itself, inexorably belching in the face of this madness. An apparition, ghastly and neither live nor dead, began to snide into this new non-world. Ribboned and rotten skin flapped free upon its glistening, horrendous skull as the monster began to address a world in which all hope was gone, a world perhaps in which the monster was all that could ever stir, a cursed landscape where time and energy had curved in on themselves once and for all

And the monster said:



Come, come, whatever must you think of me?

I’m dancing out this rhythm on the skullbones of my enemies

And did I ever tell ya oh that all my best friends are cats?



I rue the day that you were ever sent to me

I’d rather have placenta and the comfort of lobotomy

Drooling in the horsehair of an armchair don’t seem so bad



My feet are cursed, you know my friend it seems to me

They’re twitching of their own accord, and oh it feels to me

That all they want to do is kick on their heels and tap



Watch this:

(Zombie tap solo)



Soft shoe, a tribal-toed technology

Resounding through the ages to the beatcount of eternity

Listen to my syncopated motivated running flaps



Dear dead Fred Astaire is watching carefully

I put him in a spiky cage so he could see me properly

Hot-step, time-step, paradiddle, hot and fast



His grave is burnt, I have to say that one was me,

I couldn’t have him coming back to life again to challenge me

There can only ever be a-one-king of tap



It’s me!

(zombie tap solo)



Fade Out:

Ya-da, da-da-da-da- daddle-dee

Diddle-didlle-diddy ba-pa-da-pa-da-pa-dappadee

One two three four, now you’re getting good at that



Ta-ta, tiddle-tiddle-taddle-tee

Bapadaba-dibble-dibble-scabadabadabadee

That’s right now, let your feet ring out the scat



Zing zang, zatadata batadee,

Zig zag, rag-tag skiffle shuffle clickadee

Join with me forever in the dancing of the zombie tap



Verse 1: maj7 shape on EAD, starting on F# and up by semintones x3

2: C maj shape on ADGBE, start C, James Bond C-C#-D#C# x3

3 back to V1 add B7shape plus maj 3rd little finger on G string. Syncopate rhythm around that for a few bars (ie stop time, for the zombie tap solo)



Same again, except longer solo and mess about with some other chords like D (maj7 add MIN 3rd). All is in 4/4 but lots of space for tapping solo, and interjections on offbeats – different ones each time – with the music.

Then into 3rd section as before, repeat 3rd (zing zang), maybe with syncopated stop time tutti at the end, strong and final ba-ba-baba-BA! Type thing

Underneath the Zing Zang some spoken word:

And things began to stir, and bones creaked, and the grounds cracked from below as an army of tattered, sightless, crumpled and undead heathen awoke

And as the earth span ever faster on its axis toward the sun that would soon engulf it, this batallion of zombies roared and rampaged and tapdanced in a perfect Fibonnaci sequence

And the ancient one, Barbelo herself, saw what her son had done, and at the last, forgave God the sins he had wreaked on a world he lost control of within hours of creation. Maybe the lad was learning, after all.


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Saturday, 1 May 2021

AMWAT: stinky cheese

 I bought some marked-down camembert and it's lovely, but it stinks. It's really not a nice smell at all and I might have to chuck it away.

There's been no footy for a year and I miss it a lot. When it starts again, the terraces will be short of more than a few people. Permanently. It's sad and it's inevitable and it's unfair and it's just how things are.

Here's a prediction: when travel opens up again, the Nantporth Squatters will suddenly sign a ton of players for a ton of cash they've suddenly accessed.

It's so tiresome. And it's going to continue.