here are new housing developments in the strange version of my dream town of methuen and salem. there is one house i find myself in, with my brother, but it’s not my house? its night time. this house is pretty bare. not particularly homely. it’s a tall mcmansion type thing, though mansion isn’t right. a simple facade, vinyl tiling painted a dull blue. no character. there is a jazz/soul/blue band practicing in the living room. a story and plot of sort is making its way into the details but i’m not sure i quite remember. only that there was a ghostly, phantasmic essence to it, then we found ourselves outside, looking for either drugs or ghosts.
me and mark found a show on netflix. it was a new season and we had watched a few episodes of before. the episodes i had watched before were about a group of sort of aimless teenagers that that started working at a K-mart that was relatively new. one of the people was this handsome edgy trash dreamy guy who ill call Deames. the first few episode were only five minutes long and were originally youtube shorts.
weirdly, the show is also part of my life. earlier that day at the K-mart, me and mark weng. mostly to use the bathroom. we were on rt. 28, which is a big route in salem nh with chain restaurants and retails. now they decided to create a new skyline of giant sky scrapers of cartoon characters that lined the road. these were hundreds of feet tall and made and were colorful and new. a few characters used were Flinstones character, especially Fred and that purple dinosaur. Rugrats. Ten and Stimpy. Care Bears. giant statues lining the street, that followed an old train rail that is no longer in use that later became a rail trail.
the show now finds us in the auto garage part of the K-mart, where we find the edgy heart throb who was in the earlier episodes had gotten less attractive, greasier. imagine syd barrett in his early pink floyd days versus his reclusive years. he was weird a green tank top and had tattoos and was now bald, no longer sporting the black oily locks that defined his style in the earlier episodes. but he still seemed in similar young aimless, edgy spirits, only a little sadder.
we find now that a group of people have begun developing a diy community that would have wrestling matches in the large auto repair shop at night and later host shows. in this episode there was a round table show, where bands set up on different spots and one plays a song, then we move to the next band, and they each play one song: they opened with a 90s hit like gin blossoms or something, then a punk band.
the place seemed like a mixture of a home and the garage of the K-mart, probably morphing as my dream went on. but soon we found ourselves in a parking lot at night, lit by the moon, and we walked into the middle of a small grove of pine trees where we smoked weed.
after the episode finished i looked at mark and said “damn that show was fucking sick.” we decided to watch another episode:
was there more? probably. it connected in a magnificent way. the show continued and had characters that were well rounded. its style was probably a cross of teen comedy and teen drama, mixed with surrealistic and edgy experimental like harmony korine, larry clark with a hint of lynch (rip). and then a splash of something yet unseen, but maybe youtube style lost and obscure footage.
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