turbo heaven 🌼 richie

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[gutterbound]

...I know of an App as an appetizer, but I take it you're not talking food.

[It really sucks to be on the other end of this. Everyone else is absolutely baffled by the words coming out of his mouth.

then the kid blanks him on LPs and he decides no, actually, it's just shit no matter which side you're standing on.]

Records. As in, music albums. They got part-near the whole of human history in here — or the 20th century at least.

[He plucks up an unfamiliar one, some kind of girl done up like a pantomime dame in cowgirl trappings.]

You ever hear of a "Chappell Roan?"

[outdistanced]

No... it's an application. Like a program for the phones?

...I thought music was all digital. [ peers at the album with a frown. ] Nope. Don't know it.

[ he's probably too young to know or care tbh ]

[gutterbound]

You know, you call them phones, but they're feeling more like titchy little computers every minute. You can type and talk on them, you can, what, put music on them, you say?

[Fuck-ing hell. His head is sparking with the possibilities.]

It isn't. [Or it shouldn't be.] Want to test a few out? You got a favourite genre?

[outdistanced]

They can do most things a computer can, yeah. This Spotify just has music on it, though, I didn't do anything.

[ hm. ]

I don't know how they work. [ but if he had to choose... ] Alternative, I guess? I don't listen to a ton of music, honestly.

[gutterbound]

They're simple as pie. Come over here, I'll show you. [Alternative...to what? In his day and age it might mean one thing, but in his it's probably another. He lifts a box out for him, several options therein.] Pick out something. Whatever catches your eye.

What do you normally do, then?

[outdistanced]

Okay...

Run? We do a lot of races. And sometimes we play games, or I'll just read something.

[ i regret to inform richie that he will just pull something out at random. ]

[gutterbound]

Oh, more a track and field guy then. I get it. Never did take much to running, not unless I was about to get the shit kicked out of me.

[That's fine, I am sensing this is a lost cause but at least we have Gorillaz.]

Huh. "2018"....

[Gotta say he's curious. What's happening in the next forty years. He'll tug it out and put it down to play.

He'll sit back. Silent, pensively assessing with his fist at his mouth.]

[outdistanced]

Definitely. It’s fun - the best way to stretch your legs after being in class all day.

[ richie does kinda seem like the nerd type though. laurence listens and glances at richie, wondering if this is supposed to be good music or not. ]

It’s... okay?