Sunday, October 12, 2008

Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

Teenagers - My Chemical Romance

They're gonna clean up your looks
With all the lies on the books
To make a citizen out of you
Because they sleep with a gun
And keep an eye on your son
So they can watch all the things you do
Because the drugs never work
They're gonna give you a smirk
Cause they got methods
Of keeping you clean
They're gonna rip off your heads
Your aspirations to shreds
Another cog in the murder machine
They said all teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
The boys and girls in the clique
The awful names that they stick
You're never gonna fit in much kid
But if you're troubled and hurt
What you got under your shirt
Will make them pay for the things that they did
They said all teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
Whoa yeah!
They said now teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
All together now,
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me
Teenagers scare the living shit out of me
They could care less as long as someone'll bleed
So darken your clothes
Or strike a violent pose
Maybe they'll leave you alone
But not me

Play-A-Day (Day 21)

Lights up on a large changing room of a Punk/Metal band member. There are guitars hung around the wall. There is a large dresser and on top of it is a mirror with pictures of famous "rockers" taped to it. (Most of the objects on stage can be placed wherever it is best suited) There is a large tub on the stage with a black liquid in it. On top of the dresser is a hair drier. Hanging near the dresser is a large clothes rack with a variety of assorted clothes. Enter a plain ordinary looking man. He is wearing black dress pants with and white dress shirt and blue and white tie. In his hand he is holding a dinner jacket and in the other he is holding his keys and a briefcase. His hair is neatly slicked back into an acceptable formal manner. He casually walks into the room and places his brief case upon the dresser. He loosens his tie while having a seat at the dresser. He stares at himself for a while before finally smacking himself in the cheeks a couple of times. He then stands and finishes pulling his tie off and throws in on top of the briefcase. He then walks over to the clothing rack and begins to look through it. After searching for a few moments he finds what he is looking for. A white Che Guevara T-shirt with the picture of Che in red that is nearly skin tight. A black leather jacket with a skull covering most of the back of the jacket. Lastly a pair of black also nearly skin tight pants. He carries the clothes over to his dresser and sets them down next to his briefcase. Next he walks over to the tub of black liquid and unbuttons and removes his white button up shirt and carefully folds it and places it down beside the tub. He then grabs a towel that is next to the tub and places it around his shoulders and the quickly dunks his head under the water. After a moment under he pulls his head back up and quickly wraps the towel around it. Once he is sure no black liquid is dripping he picks up his shirt and carries it over to the dresser. Next he reaches into one of the compartments of the dresser and pulls out hair gel. While waiting for it to further dry he begins to remove his pants. Once he has them off he carefully folds them and places them on top of his shirt. He is wearing yellow smiley face boxers. He then begins to put the skin tight pants on but keeps having the boxers bunch up on him so he instead takes them off reluctantly and grumbles while placing the skin tight pants on. Then he removes the towel and his hair is now Jet Black. He puts on his Che shirt followed by the leather jacket. Then he takes a seat at the dresser and begins to gel large spikes from his hair. Once he has finished he puts the hair dryer on low and lightly blow drys the hair so it hardens. Once he has finished he pulls out a pair of shoes from under the dresser, converse, and puts them on. Next he stands and stares at himself in the mirror. He then sticks his tongue out as far as it will go and once he is satisfied he goes to look at the guitars on the wall and chooses an Ibanez Star. He then returns to the mirror and with the guitar poses. Once he is satisfied with himself he turns towards offstage where a huge uproar of cheering has begun and a voice can be heard announcing. He slowly walks offstage. Lights fade

1 comment:

gmihalik said...

Great detail - great transformation! The tub of black would be a production/technical nightmare but the effect of him dunking his head is so striking, as is the existence of the tub on stage to begin with - I kept waiting to see what he was going to do with it.