96.3 - for the dearly departed

[hard-talker.livejournal.com]

[no Leonard Cohen this week ... just a kid sounding kinda tired, but giving it his damnedest anyway]

Hey, everybody. Uhh ... for those've you who know what it is? ... Happy Halloween.

[Mark's had a pretty tough day, upon finding out that two of his oldest friends have gone ... including one he considered pretty much the closest thing to a mentor that he'd admit. so to make up for his lack of ... him-ness, he's put together one hell of a playlist.

they'd at least want him to keep going in some fashion, even if he doesn't have it in him to chew everyone out properly and get loud and crude, after all]

Best scary stories? Costume malfunctions? Gimme whatever you've got. I'll be here... it ain't like I got anywhere else to be.

Comments

[ino]

That tends to be the case, yeah.

[a little pause, where she taps her fingernails on the page] I've tried, so many times, to cut things off with everyone here. To make things easier. But people don't work like that.

[hard-talker.livejournal.com]

Nah ... people don't really do so hot without other people, do they? I don't wanna boil it down to "maybe we're all attention whores", there's more to it than that, but.... damned if I know what it is.

I just know doin' my thing back home proved at least one thing, fer me. No matter what kinda shit someone's goin' through, they wanna know they're not alone.

[ino]

[a little amused sound]

Maybe it really is that simple.

Pretty much.

[hard-talker.livejournal.com]

We're all attention whores, but none of us are alone, so it all balances out?

... yeah, that ... actually sounds pretty good, to me. [and then he realizes he was just kind of unintentionally wise. pardon him while he has his Keanu Reeves moment]

Whoa.

[ino]

Feeling enlightened yet, Guru Mark?