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Asparagus Water (2017)

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I cannot leave my house.

There is no way to leave my house.

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Carly Rae Jepsen Jukebox Musical

This is merely a work in progress, the finer points I assure you will come as I sit and toy with the idea, but below you will find a list of songs and a basic outline of the story I’d like to tell. Thanks for checking out what I assure you is 100% worth your time. 

CRJ Jukebox Musical (Title Coming Soon)

by Anthony Wetmore

[Song List]

Boy Problems

Run Away With Me

First Time

Good Time

Warm Blood

Body Language

Black Heart

When I Needed You

Your Type

I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance

LA Hallucinations

Hurt So Good

Favourite Color

I Really Like You

Gimmie Love

E*MO*TION

The One

Call Me Maybe 

Store

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CHARACTERS

Carli: Bright-eyed 20 something. Short dark hair, pale complexion, radiant eyes, very laid back unless provoked. Growing more cautious with each new piece of information.

Jeremy: A sandy-haired late teen who enjoys the simple things; skating, girls, music. Very non-descript. Could be anyone.

Vicki: A vibrant young woman in her late 20s, she wears loud colors and sports a short bob cut with a shock of pink hair dye. Caring and kind, but can be turned off just as fast. 

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 Lights up on a young girl, Carli, sitting on a stoop outside of what appears to be a house, looking down, at her shoes, deep in thought over the huge fight she just had with Jeremy, her boyfriend of six months, when suddenly her cell phone rings. [Song: Boy Problems]

After the conversation with Vicki, she hangs up, feeling a little better now that the two have made plans for the following Friday. Carli reflects on her friendship with Vicki, and finds herself grateful. [Song snippet: Run Away With Me]

As she makes her way home, she is over come with a sudden chill and a rough itchy black patch on her wrist which she can’t help but scratch at constantly. She vomits a small amount on a corner before disappearing off-stage and back to her home.

Upon entering her room, Carli immediately collapses on the bed, falling asleep. Waking a short time later she notices Jeremy has called her a number of times, in addition to texts, in a fit she throws her phone across the room, shattering it with an eerie strength. [Song: First Time] Overcome by some new power, Carli spitefully pictures what a return to Jeremy would be like, laughing off the image of him tearful and sorry.

She picks a new phone out of her dresser drawer, powers it on to call Vicki, invigorated, but genuinely curious about her spreading black rash. They research together, but come up with little information, much to Carli’s dismay.  Vicki offers to spend the night as a comfort, but Carli declines, nervous about her growing strange violent urges. Vicki has finally left and Carli has shed more skin, revealing a fine thin layer of hair on what appears to be a strong, shiny insect-like limb. The fingers completely fallen away, Carli smiles, the lights go dark. [Song snippet: The chorus of Good Time plays over a PA, fading in and out, almost inaudible]

Several Months Later

[Song: Warm Blood] Lights up on Carli, further transformed by the strange illness, half of her face is covered in that fine shiny black hair, the eye has gone red and swollen, but her demeanor is that of a rejuvenated Olympian. In her basement, an utter disaster in terms of debris and blood splatter, a few body parts can be seen in odd places, and there are piles of blood clothes. Carli is beginning to embrace her true nature.  A phone call; it’s Jeremy. She coughs, clearing her throat and answers, after some minor back and forth she agrees to meet him for coffee. [lights fade]

 Carli, now appears to be her normal self, with some inconsistencies in make-up and bone structure to a particular side of her face, arrives at a gas station only to meet Jeremy, who is also on route to their scheduled date. They trade awkward greetings with vague displays of casual affection before actually talking. Carli convinces him to come back to her place instead. Alone.  [Song: Body Language]

[Song: Black Heart]

Upon arrival, Carli is quick to show Jeremy the basement and even faster, she tears away her faux face, taking more of her original skin off with it and showing him what she has become, a spider hybrid, bugging, bulging red eyes spin in place as an odd number of large legs jut out and attempt to find purchase in opposite directions. Jeremy falls backwards and is overcome by her form, only to end in muffled screams. Satisfied, Carli collects herself and reassumes her human form slowly, eventually nailing his pants to the wall alongside a series of other various clothing along the wall.

 [Song snippets: When I Needed You]

Vicki has all but disappeared from Carli’s life since she has developed her new abilities and in a rush of blood and viscera, Carli is struck with a longing for that sort of natural easy relationship she’d shared with Vicki.

[Song: Your Type]

After lamenting and several attempts to call Vicki that end in failure, Carli drops the notion and grows angrier still. She camouflages herself and sets out for the night.

[Song: I Didn’t Just Come Here to Dance]

We find Carli at a club, dancing with anyone and everyone, drinking and genuinely having a good time at first. The club is small and packed, she sees an opportunity. Carli, silently extends her rear two insect legs and begins to tear apart the legs of the men who come up to dance with her. Amid the chaos of music lights and alcohol, no one notices the slow decline in club goers, and certainly not the pool of blood filling out the dance floor. Once a patron slips in the mess, Carli takes this as her cue to slip out the back door, satisfied with her work.

That night, the body count is totaled on the news to be in excess of 15, the authorities having lost count due to the complicated nature of counting pieces of many bodies in strewn on one location. [Song snippets: LA Hallucinations]

Surprised by a text from Vicki, Carli spirals into joy and ruminates on her future, friendless, or forgiving, she finds herself torn between two worlds. [Song: Hurt So Good]

The two meet and ultimately reunite after mulling over the minor details and the trajectory of their time together as close friends. [Song: Favourite Color]

Time passes and life calms down, Vicki and Carli grow closer and develop something more than friendship, neither willing to fully address the situation, it is an understood comfort. [Song snippet: I Really Like You into Gimme Love]

The situation finally comes to a head one day when Vicki finds what she assumes to be an engagement ring hidden in Carli’s laundry. Carli seems hesitant at first, but then is over come with joy as they celebrate their coming nuptials. [Song: Call Me Maybe; snippet of E*MO*TION; snippet of The One fading in and out at the finish]  Vicki goes home to spread the good news and just as she leaves, Carli runs to the bathroom to get sick. [lights fade]

The lights come up on an apartment some months later, it is lived in and there is a mingling of styles, evidence that the wedding has taken place and the nesting has begun. Carli and Vicki share a meal in the evening that ends abruptly when Carli claims to have gotten an urgent phone call. After disappearing to the bedroom shortly, she dashes for the door without a word. As she reaches for the knob, we see her insect appendage and a busting seam where Carli’s make-up is wearing away. [Song: Store, snap to black]

[END]

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GhostConch’s (TheMisterPipes’) Short Summer (Hot Season) Playlist ([small]Song Set) For The Summer

Pixx - Waterslides

Sylvan Esso - Die Young

Olga Bell - ATA

Carly Rae Jepsen - Cut To The Feeling

The 1900s - You Are My Lover (Suzi Quatro Cover)