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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19531709 - 02/06/14 05:06 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I'm lost on that one Ed


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19531748 - 02/06/14 05:16 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

it's the last game of the season, cant hold anything back now.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19531888 - 02/06/14 05:42 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I really dig the poetic format of no. 6.

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Legend]
    #19531977 - 02/06/14 05:58 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

:manofapproval:

Thanks. I really wanted to do some free verse and this one practically wrote itself. I see this character and his derivatives very often on my daily commute.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 1
    #19577469 - 02/16/14 10:46 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

7. The Father

    He arrives. Mingles through the door with the Werewolves of London prancing behind him in some rendition of a single file line.  His hair is an asymmetric result of grease, time, and gravity; a strange yet familiar product of several years of drug use and calculated abandonment. A beard of sorts wraps around his chin, gray as they come. Much of his appearance, like his personality, comes as a thick haze. Almost as if all of the smoke he’s been flirting with for so many years has finally decided it’d like to spend the night. Being naturally interested in the odd and boisterous, you sense the spark here immediately, and walk over for a chat.
    It’s made clear halfway through your greeting: this man’s the real deal. Talking with him is something like putting your shoes on:  with almost zero precision (or sobriety) required you can achieve desired results quite promptly. He speaks fondly of the old days: the weed, the acid, that legendary line of cocaine off the dashboard of his old VW Microbus. This conversation is some sort of ritualistic baton pass that seems to take place whenever an elder and a young gun cross paths, and you’re eating it up. After all, The Father has done everything you could think of. It’s not even a matter of bragging, his demeanor tells as much of his story as that “professional enough” tattoo sloppily perched on the back of his neck next to the Dancing Bears.
    Turns out he’s an engineer of sorts, a real brain, who works for a government contractor across town. He can fix most problems you’ll encounter with whatever happens to be in his left pocket at the time, a handy dude to have around when the going gets tough and the tough get lost. He’s relatively responsible, in that his job demands it. It’s clear that this man can’t really afford to smoke weed and kick back regularly anymore, but he just can’t let go of the lifestyle. If you linger around long enough, you may be able to smell his last blunt on the fringe of his leather jacket. Pungent, but not off-putting. If The Father had a biography that would be it’s tagline.
    After discussing with him the revolution of recent technology and it’s effects on society, you decide it’s getting late. You down that last drink and he follows suit. He throws a solitary bill on the table for the bartender...

A two.

    The cocktease of tips. Enough to silence any possible complaints but certainly not a generosity by any stretch of the imagination.  As you make your way to the door, he shouts goodbye to somebody named “Big Ed” who returns the gesture from some unseen location. You start your goodbye and aim for your car when you’re met with the old “nah, follow me” nod. Expecting a joint and Pink Floyd, you hop into his car for a burn. You make yourself comfortable and get out your lighter upon realizing that without hesitation, he has pulled out a bag of crystal the size of your fist from underneath the drivers seat.

Meth. Fuck.

    You attempt to throw a curveball: “So how old did you say your kid was?”. A small distraction, you pray he doesn’t see this for what it is. You’ve never done meth, and that cherry isn’t one you planned on popping. “18 months… precious girl… wife’s watching her tonight”, he says as he crushes up a small shard. Your pitch fails and before you know it you’re feeling the come up of a quick and dirty stimulant. You stay for a story and a half about the 80’s and his small time touring with “The Dead”, and then hastily exchange a farewell as you tweak-walk your way to your car and shove home.
    The Father has impressed you, gotten you to try a drug you’d never have considered, and told you some kickass stories all in a short night’s encounter. “If only I could see what his day-to-day is like”, you ponder.
    Truly, what a fun little glimpse you would receive. Oh the interest you’d derive from seeing a strung out wife cleaning a baby’s diaper in the unkempt den that man calls home. The bags of garbage strewn across the front lawn. Those overdraft statements from two years ago sitting under a pile of newspapers on the kitchen table, the foreclosure notice on the front door. Water damage on the ceilings, empties in the shower, and that garbage bag full of take-out next to the child’s crib… All products of an addiction that has gone too far. Men like The "Father" are perhaps best met during that last call at the local watering hole. In this environment you can glimpse a piece of a beautiful picture before discovering the rest of it has faded into a murky blur.
    You conclude that two hours was enough; the healthy limit of engagement with a fellow like this. Just as your astonishment at The Father’s charisma has an expiration date, so too does his ability to dance that line between a managed habit and a reckless addiction. It’s only a matter of time now before the bill comes for that mortgage payment that’s now perched somewhere in his central nervous system.


*very long, but a necessary character*


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19577487 - 02/16/14 10:53 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

is this the story of how you tried speed the other day?


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19577630 - 02/16/14 11:37 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I would love to turn this into a movie!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Legend]
    #19577658 - 02/16/14 11:45 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

6 was my favorite too. Nice job MM, thanks for sharing. This place can be so interesting sometimes.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19577683 - 02/16/14 11:51 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I dig your writing man. You've got style. 6 had Hunter S. Thompson's voice in my head the whole time. Awesome!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: larry.fisherman]
    #19578045 - 02/17/14 02:26 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

I actually met the Father on the ferry to England last autumn, almost exactly as you described it!
You're a keen observer, MM, and a good writer. This should be a film or something!

This Father guy and I met very late in the bar on the ferry, and he did have a lot of cool stories. We smoked his weed outside (It had to be gone before he had to go through customs), watching the moonlight on the water... what a great guy.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem] * 2
    #19578633 - 02/17/14 07:59 AM (9 years, 11 months ago)

Quote:

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I actually met the Father on the ferry to England last autumn, almost exactly as you described it!
You're a keen observer, MM, and a good writer. This should be a film or something!.




I'd love that. Perhaps one day in the distant future i'll have the talent to write the plot for some movie, that'd be ridiculously awesome.

Thanks everyone for the positive feedback, it almost makes me want to write the rest of these in a single day! :lol:


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse] * 3
    #19609308 - 02/23/14 05:25 PM (9 years, 11 months ago)

8. Candice
    Once upon a time, in a nice suburban home there lived a sweet and beautiful girl. She liked horses, boys, and Sunday brunches after church. She was a daddy’s girl, and her mom’s pride and joy. You knew her quite well back then and even had a small thing with her for some time. Those were the golden days for beautiful, thin, charming Candice.
    Two years later she now sits, on the couch directly opposite you, wearing a tight tie-dye t-shirt and pajama pants. She’s doing a line and a half of coke off a dirty “TIME” magazine. Candice then follows the line with a quick torch-puff of her bowl and then offers it to the guy next to her. You realize that it only takes a small smoking session with Candice to get the gist of what she’s been up to.  If only you had known that.
    Nope. You caught up with Candice the hard way: A spontaneous hook-up that you will now spend years of hard drug use trying to forget. You went to her house expecting that trim and intelligent girl from two years prior and got handed something entirely different, like getting someone else’s meal at the drive through. Simply put: that heart tattoo on her left leg which used to be tiny and charming looked as if it were suddenly caught in the middle of a serious game of Tug of War.  There was no going back though, once you touch the cookie, it’s yours. If only you had kept your hand out of the jar.
    It turns out, Candice went through some sort of reverse metamorphosis. Through some combination of onset-schizophrenia and substance abuse, she was removed from her nursing program and had to leave college. She now works at Taco Bell (if you consider selling pot in the parking lot “work”), and spends most of her paycheck on gas and Robitussin. The poor woman is stuck under a rain-cloud: her last boyfriend ditched her when the scales tipped 170, her savings account recently bottomed out, and her mom sold her prized horses. Candice is now locked in a concerted effort to blunt her sad reality with hard liquor and synthetic pot on a nightly basis.  While Candice used to be a prude tease to many-a-boy, you realize things have changed in that department. She’s almost always down for sex, and usually gets a taker, but never finds that repeat customer she’s searching for. She’s the used car with a few-thousand too many miles on it.
    You pity the poor girl. So much promise, yet no hint of a delivery. Candice’s ship is sinking quickly, and you don’t know if she can really turn it around. The title “Damaged good’s” doesn't begin to do this story justice.


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ModestMouse]
    #19619477 - 02/26/14 03:36 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

Damn MM, that's depressingly close to many a young woman I used to know.
It takes a while to learn women like that can't be helped.

Great writing, again. You got some more positive couch shamans in there, or is it all downhill from now?


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem]
    #19619581 - 02/26/14 05:06 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

I have nothing to add, I just wanna see this on my threads


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
    #19619627 - 02/26/14 05:42 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

You have become a shroomery super star! Something will be thrown at you everday now. Not money, something more important and equally sought after. Love. Take all my love damnit!


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Turtletotem]
    #19619790 - 02/26/14 07:34 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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Great writing, again. You got some more positive couch shamans in there, or is it all downhill from now?



The next two i'm planning on writing are neutral/positive
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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: ThatKidWithTheFace]
    #19620269 - 02/26/14 10:11 AM (9 years, 10 months ago)

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I have nothing to add, I just wanna see this on my threads




I do you one bit blame you I've been loving modest mouses great tale of the couch and it's inhabitants


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: nksfo5]
    #19622169 - 02/26/14 04:48 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

there's this key and peele skit with a dead ringer for the guy I was talking about as the foreigner who deals in stolen property.  He's the crazy one in this clip...



The foreigner who deals in stolen property...

This guys is a trip, he's obviously immigrated to the united states from Africa on a student visa and then just went on the run.  He's smart as shit, and is new to stimulants and African-American gansta culture.  So he has a funny nickname, something like a cross between a stripper name and a rapper name.

Sometimes shit's dry and as a last resort you call him up but you never spend more than 40 dollars as a rule.  Half the time you get ripped off, but you never know if he did it on purpose or was oblivious.

So you go to his hotel room and grit your teeth and get thru his sales pitches.  "I give u cash and shit for a freshly stolen credit card."

"It's good shit too, oh shit, I had five bags of shit and four pills, I loose two pils and a bag, you help me find it."

You let out a groan because he does this shit every time.  And you know that as soon as you start looking around the hotel room, he's going to realize that you're keeping any crystal or oxy that you find, and commands you to freeze and stop looking.  But if you don't help him look he's going to get offended.

He's pretty butthurt that you only have thirty dollars to your name even though your spending all of it on his shit, so after you buy your drugs, the stolen property auction begins.

"Right now, how much you give me for this car amp."

"Look congo, I don't have any money."

"No, right now, how much will you give me for this, plus a dvd player."

"Oh, right now?  I've got three hundred dollars in my sock, hold on..."

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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: SpecialEd]
    #19622790 - 02/26/14 06:46 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

hahahahaahhaha


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Re: The Twelve People You Meet on the Couch [Re: Does]
    #19622875 - 02/26/14 07:05 PM (9 years, 10 months ago)

The Father Describes my work partner

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Minus the hippie and add some felonies and metal.


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