Eli | Mike | Mary - click for individual bio
October 1, 2003
Last night 2/3 of the Monolators (Mary & me) went to the Silverlake Lounge to see Circus Minor and Kennedy. Both rocked us like a hurricane! Kennedy has a lot of jewelry. I was thinking of maybe getting some jewelry myself, like maybe a big plastic jewel stuck onto my forehead like a third eye. Then everyone will think I’m psychic.
Speaking of psychic, the other day I ran across a website for this obscure British TV show called “The Tomorrow People.” I vaguely, vaguely recall watching this over at my friend Dan Hartmann’s house way back in the ‘80’s. It had something to do with psychic people, which is why I just thought of it, but the interesting thing is the way the website describes the show’s pilot episode:
“Gifted with various telepathic abilities such as telepathy, telekinesis and teleportation, these special teenagers are also unable to kill. The first story sees the three Tomorrow People joined by Stephen, the more adventurous member of the team, as he begins to break-out.”
“Break-out?” So the show is about psychic teenagers whose faces break out? That’s their special power? Even I can do that! Whee! I’m psychic! Watch me break out!
Oh, wait. It says that “break-out” means “manifest their psychic abilities.” Oh. Well that’s crap! It does say, though, that the psychic teenagers are “special.” I bet this means they have itchy scalps and wet their beds.
The website also says that “Later stories see members come and go: there is…Tyso, a young gypsy boy; Mike, an impetuous teenager who plays in a band called ‘the Fresh Hearts’; oriental ‘goddess’ Hsui Tai; and the mischievous young scot, Andrew.” This is sounding more and more like my real life all the time! Which brings me to the point of today’s journal entry: we Monolators need to raise some money to finish up our album. We thought of various schemes, like selling all of Mary’s sweaters, but my latest idea is to write a series of best-selling ‘young adult’ novels based on the exciting, real-life adventures of the Monolators! The series would be called:
The Exciting Psychic Teenage Adventures of the Band called “The Monolators!!”
The first book would be about how we’re all living in a hollow stump in the woods when we’re joined by Wallis, a mischievous young scot roadie, whose face begins to break out. Other titles would include The Teenage Psychic Monolators Versus Brainy Smurf and The Monolators Have Itchy Scalps and Wet Their Beds. I also see a cheaply animated Saturday morning cartoon spinoff, called Break-Out! With The Monolators!! We would all have special cartoon personas: Mike would look like He-Man, Mary would look like She-Ra*. I would look like a big moth. Each show would end with me flying into a lightbulb and exploding.
Does anyone think this is a good idea? If you e-mail us I’ll work you into the plot of our first book (maybe as another moth).
Oh, one last thing, before I forget (and this is actually real): a big hairy guy came into the Library the other day. He was wearing sunglasses inside (and it’s really kind of dim in here), he had a big beard, and he was wearing one of those huge radio-headphone things over his baseball cap. Tough dude, instead of handing me his library card he just kind of tossed it on the desk and made me pick it up. Didn’t say ‘hi’ or ‘please,’ just grunted the name of the book he wanted. Then I noticed that he had a denim “Hello Kitty” wallet. What a sweetheart!
Eli
*Speaking of She-Ra, a Google “Image Search” for her picture turned this up:
http://jeffcovey.net/tmp/she-ra.jpg
Why? Why why why? Eli not understand. |
