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I have a jacuzzi tub. \u00a0It’s one of the top, oh, fifteen or sixteen reasons I pay the rent that I do- so that whenever I darn well please, I can have a jacuzzi bath. \u00a0Tonight was one of those times. \u00a0I do my best to relax in the bath, not let that quiet time be interrupted with all of my ongoing anxieties, so one of my tricks is to listen to meditation tapes, or, like tonight, put my iPod on random and see what it comes up with.<\/p>\n

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I have a huge playlist of music on my iPod that is entitled “awww… yeah.” \u00a0Basically, it’s all my more mellow music, and there is a lot of old stuff on there that is largely feel-good tunes. \u00a0So I put that on, sank into the hot water, and tried my best not to contemplate anything other than the feeling of hot water on yoga-tired muscles.<\/div>\n
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But, well, then I got a-thinking. \u00a0About, of all things, astrology. \u00a0And horoscopes. \u00a0There’s a part of me that is tempted to put even just the tiniest stock in such things, because wouldn’t that be fun? \u00a0Wouldn’t it be at least a little fun if there were such a thing as fate and destiny? \u00a0But I’m just a little too practical, and the game I like to play (all in my own head) is to read horoscopes and if the slightest bit of truth emerges, I read it again but turn everything around- basically make it a most opposite horoscope- to see if there is still a little truth. \u00a0And there invariably is. \u00a0So that is one easy, quick, and available way to debunk such silliness. \u00a0And then my mind leapt- for whatever reason- to a show I helped my college boyfriend write during my senior year. \u00a0It was just too clever by half: every line in the show was a famous movie quote. \u00a0As in, every line of dialogue that any character uttered was a famous line from a movie. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Which meant that the writing team (made up of me, my boyfriend, and his best friend) spent hours upon hours brainstorming famous movie quotes, and then trying to arrange them into a plot. \u00a0(I’m pretty sure I only contributed lines from Animal House and Goonies.) \u00a0I can’t remember how we arrived at this particular plot twist, but, at the end of the show,\u00a0vampires dropped down off the ceiling and killed everyone. \u00a0It was pretty crappy, and silly, but a hell of a lot of fun. \u00a0I was the person in the show who got killed last, and since the whole vampire thing was (of course) very sexualized, it was like being gang-raped and gang-killed, death by rough, bloody kissing (with fake fangs), and naturally, since this was college, my character (as written by my boyfriend) sort of liked it.<\/div>\n
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Anyway.<\/div>\n
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I was thinking about that experience- of taking a hundred or so famous quotes and forcing them into a black-box short play. \u00a0And about horoscopes. \u00a0And about, at the moment, feeling a little hog-tied about some things. \u00a0And about how it’s probably good for me to see, quite clearly, that I have no control over most things in the world. \u00a0And about how it would almost be a relief to me, at this point, if I could know that my life was ruled by fate or destiny as opposed to random chance. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Instead, I’m in the bath, and I’m thinking about how all of the songs on my iPod could be telling a story; and if I plucked out a line from each song I heard during my bath, what would the story say?<\/div>\n
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“I look around but it’s you I can’t replace. \u00a0There’s hours of time on the telephone line, to talk about things to come. \u00a0I think, last night (you were in my dreams), you were driving circles around me. \u00a0Your love is better than chocolate, better than anything else that I’ve tried. \u00a0I think it’s time to make this something that is more than only fair, so if you call, I will answer. \u00a0My poor heart, it’s been so dark since you been gone. \u00a0I could drink a case of you and still be on my feet. \u00a0If you’d come home, I’d let you know that all you want is right here in this room. \u00a0I wish you out of the woods, and into the picture with me. \u00a0Little darling, it feels like years since it’s been clear. \u00a0I’m not sure all these people understand. \u00a0And I know I’m right, for the first time in my life; that’s why I tell you, you better be home soon.”<\/div>\n
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Hmm. \u00a0It almost tells a story. \u00a0Better than that wretched play did, anyway.<\/div>\n
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