living in sf with a bunch of old rockers. has-beens from the sixties.
seventies. bobby used to tour with the stones. santana. a roadie. rain was
in some band in the sixties. influenced the doors gary says. but he sold
away his rights during some acid trip in the seventies. living off ssi.
welfare. doing speed. smoking crack. gary is the pretty boy. tall. gorgeous.
generous and giving. an aries with a fierce temper. the only one with the
talent to make it. the others in the band. rozz. evan. others who stop
by. all going nowhere. as they play music. write music. it all was left
behind in the sixties. rain. dreaming of taking seattle by storm. he can
barely sing anymore.
like living in some rock movie. one morning. awakened as the cops search the
house for rozz. martin. some junkie living in one of the rooms. balding. old.
like everyone else. living on with rent dispute. almost a squat. rozz knocks
him out. later in the day. again. rozz hiding in a closet in the kitchen. as
cops look again. martin has called them one last time.
gary screams. a phone flies through the upper half of the door. wood
splinters as the panel. the phone. fly into the hall. inside the room.
hearing things thrown. broken. screaming. yelling. garys phone has been
disconnected because everyone has used it to dial long distance. yet they
dont pay. other times. screaming at rain. get those fucking crack bitches
out of my fucking house. stop asking me for shit. things always so tense.
people stealing. scamming. and gary. pretty boy. only one with his shit
together. working.
bobby. telling stories about the old days. on tour. in the war. crude. a
redneck. he scares my gothic friends. always hitting on the women. angel
makes faces at him. she does not like him. he tries to have a threesome
with marie and i. we leave. believes women are weak. needing to be taken
care of. an old alcoholic. some in the house. think he steals to buy it.
always a good friend to me. though his views annoy me.
others in the house. like mary. rozzs girlfriend. white english princess
from nigeria. never doing anything. except that piercingly annoying laugh.
evan and helen are nice. they live in a van. park it outside a lot. come in
for showers. food. to jam. everyone pipping. smoking speed through a glass
pipe. pip. and theyve all. living some old childhood rock fantasy. still
dreaming.