Of all the pyramids on all the planets in all the universe…
*ahem*
So there I was on a military installation on a desolate world that appears (linguistically at least) to correspond to a interstellar imperial period in Japanese history that in my travels through time (and lazy attitude toward “current affairs”) I had…well…missed.
In my defense there weren’t a whole lot of planets within range…
Fortunately, being as I am an entertainer and standing militaries without clear adversaries are typically plagued with boredom, I was pretty confident I could get work (and by extension avoid death) somewhere on this oddly Egyptian themed base.
Unfortunately all the music jobs were spoken for by mixed media PhotoJazz outfits doing ancient standard mashups like “Hit Me Baby Got Back In Black Is the Color of My True Love’s Hair” ….
This left me no recourse but to pivot to standup…thing is, most jokes are at least kinda topical. I figured I’d start with the classics like:
“I just flew in from the void between perception and being and boy are my arms tired”
Bombed. Ancient earth sports jokes? Old fashioned domestic partnership jokes (these people got over gender & sexuality generations ago). BOMBED.
In the end (to avoid the white laser hook) I had to resort to my secret weapon…wackiness.
Basically I projected (with the assistance of a sympathetic engineer who I think had a crush on me) an image of GIANT cat’s head onto a Sphinx shaped pumping station and cartoonishly mimed blunt trauma (falling down, being punched, kicked, etc.) and shouting ridiculously during each impact, all the while playing @unxigned ‘s Playlist:
UNXINED Emerging
https://linktr.ee/ewharrismusic OR https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4los5a8sYu2C5jOi52f0fM
To be honest it was exhausting, but I’m alive still AND I learned a valuable lesson. People, human and non, are complex. They all have their little rules and peccadilloes and navigating those is hard. Absurdity though, seems to be pretty consistent in living things and is very easy to divine, and maybe THAT is the first step toward true communication.
Or maybe it’s Elvis…I don’t know
#surreal #pyramid #comedy #serial #musiclife (at Brooklyn, New York)
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