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Couldn't decide whether to call this one 'Farage Rocher' or 'Taken Out Of Context'...
Audio from LBC, obviously without permission.

Farage Rocher

Less Than Zero – Concept demo.
Los Angeles, 1985.

[spoken]

CLAY:
People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles.
This is the first thing I hear when I come back to the city.

Blair picks me up from LAX and mutters this under her breath as she drives up the onramp. Though this sentence shouldn’t bother me, it stays in my mind for an uncomfortably long time. Nothing else seems to matter.

Not that I’m eighteen. Not that it’s December and I’m home from New Hampshire for Christmas.
Not the mud on my trousers. Not the drunk couple on the plane or the stain on my shirt that was so fresh and clean this morning. Nothing else seems to matter to me but those ten words.

[sung]

Kiss the Pacific, salute the sun
Soft top down, dinner for one
This is where I always come
This is a place where things get done
Somewhere in that silver screen
Is everything you’ll ever need
Still it haunts me when I heard
People here are afraid to merge.

[spoken]

The ride on the plane had been rough and my clothes are wrinkled and damp. But all that, and the warm winds propelling the car down the empty highway and the tear on the neck of my grey argyle vest are irrelevant next to that one sentence.

The singer on the radio is crying out about magnetic waves, and Blair is pretty sure some girl named Muriel is anorexic. I’m a boy coming home for a month and meeting someone I haven’t seen for four months and people are afraid to merge.

[sung]

Endless Pacific, bone-white moon
Soft top down, table for two 
This is where I always come
This is a place where things get done
Somewhere in that silver screen
Is everything you’ll ever need
Still it haunts me when I heard
People here are afraid to merge.

[radio static]

[spoken]

BLAIR: What’s wrong?
CLAY: Nothing.
BLAIR: You look pale.

CLAY:
Nobody’s home. I lie on my bed and I can still hear that people are afraid to merge and I try to get over the sentence, blank it out. I turn on MTV and think I could get over it if I had some Valium and went to sleep, and I feel sick as the videos flash by.

[sung]

Kiss the Pacific, kiss the shore
Soft top down, party of four
This is where I always come
This is a place where things are done
Somewhere in that silver screen
Is more than you could ever need
Still it haunts me when I heard
People here are afraid.

By the Pacific you're alive
Soft top down, room here for five
This is where I always come
This is a place where things get done
Somewhere in that silver screen
Is everything you’ll ever need
Still it haunts me when I heard
People here are afraid to merge.

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I'm Bruce.  I do theatre.  In actual fact, I'm artistic director of @thrusttheatreco.  Plus I make rubbish music and remixes to amuse myself.

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