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13552, kick-ass robot Posted by RatpackSlim, Sun Feb-01-04 09:37 AM
i don't need the cure for cancer. i don't need another cover version of "tiny dancer". for i have completed construction on something i've always wanted to own: a really big kick-ass robot.
i have named my robot dimitri just because i can i built him after all and i wanted to name him d'angelo but i feared the lawsuit. so dimitri it is, and i'm damn proud of him. he's giant. and he's awesome. and he's kick-ass. and he's really big.
he's big as your house. and he has perfect hair made of red, blue, and green wires swept back in a rockabilly pompadour he's got dolby digital surround he's faster than dsl he dominates the iron giant and optimus prime on the half-court and if given a very large open space he's really good at doing the robot. duh.
some people say i built him because i was in crisis and men in crisis often compensate by buying big metal things. i'm sure i don't know what any of that means i just wanted to have a really big ol' giant awesome kick-ass robot.
i think he has a crush on the statue of liberty i try to tell him he's in love with the idea of her and that it'd never work but go figure he's a dreamer like me.
his left hand is the standard interchangeable fist slash laser gun and i have made his right hand into a large metal catcher's mitt so he can carry me around. and yes there have been nights when he has carried me in his right hand we have parked ourselves next to your apartment and i have called you on dimitri's mega-modular two-way built-in celly and yes while we were talking i have seen your silhouette in the window your left hand holding a standard margarita your right hand on the phone as you danced around the room it is, i believe, the reason the word transcendent was invented.
but then i felt a little creepy and kind of intrusive and besides you can't be very stealthy with a big ol' giant awesome really kick-ass robot standing in the middle of the street so then dimitri and i went and demolished some abandoned buildings caught some bank robbers and prevented a few forest fires and i felt tons better.
but beyond that i have realized that for all of the amazing things that he can accomplish a big ol' giant awesome really fucking kick-ass robot can only do so much for me. dimitri may be able to send gamara back to giant turtle island he can fly me over rush hour traffic with his jet-boots and he plays a really mean game of tetris but he'll never be able to push you into my arms, love. i mean, if he did, you'd probably be crushed and that's counter-productive. and kind of gross.
no some things i gotta do on my own. so i know it's really easy to hide behind a big ol' giant super-size awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot and sometimes i admit i do because, well, think about it i mean, i'm only 5' 8" and he plays ping pong with king kong but he can't sing songs loudly in the car with abandon he has no stories about his crazy-ass youth he won't even try my cooking and i think he only says he likes john hughes films to appease me.
so i come to you today feeling very very human with a tasteful bouquet of flowers in my left hand and a monkey wrench in my right
because it's hard to take care of a big ol' giant super-size stereophonic mega-awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot by yourself and you've always struck me as a robot lover and there's room enough in the big metal catcher's mitt for two we can fly over to mount rushmore and have a picnic on teddy roosevelt's head while dimitri cues up the stevie wonder on his 100-disc-changer stomach.
because when you step into my world androids can cry mad scientists have blown up the white house at least a dozen times superheroes have fended off the invasion from neptune and this this is just crazy enough to make me think it could really work. just you, dimitri the big ol' giant super-size stereophonic sittin' on chrome mega-awesome really fuckin' kick-ass robot and little old me.
and all of this all the nuts and bolts of it all however extraordinary should never be hard to believe.
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13553, heh heh hehe Posted by soulchild, Sun Feb-01-04 09:49 AM
that was a great read it made me smile definitely enjoyed
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"For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief." - Ecclesiastes 1:18
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13554, that was EXCELLENT Posted by wolfie, Sun Feb-01-04 04:22 PM
oh man... it was silly but sweet
AND you referenced gammara... which made my night. (MST3K anyone?)
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13555, thoroughly entertaining Posted by delsbrothergeorge, Mon Feb-02-04 04:09 PM
i gotta say that i heard rachel kann's voice as i was reading. seems like something she might write. the perspective, anyway.
nice piece. very nice.
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13556, made me smile Posted by guest, Tue Feb-03-04 05:49 AM
so...
up
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13557, What An Imagination You Have?!?!? Posted by PhotoSynthesis, Wed Feb-04-04 03:59 PM
(((Awesome)))
And very tight storytellin' skills displayed thru~out -- (Tellin' YOUR OWN story -- with a Sci-Fi Twist) -- *smiles*
I Likes --
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13558, what Photo said... Posted by Foneticcus, Fri Feb-06-04 08:00 AM
abt imagination & dels said abt entertaining...both so spot on. u really locked the characterization down 4 this, man. that's sum actor's stuff, not even writer's stuff man. u brought this kid's (yrself, i guess) personality out 2 the fullest...w/ all those jumps & deviations & colloquialisms ("kind of gross" - ha!). very nice, very insightful too. loved 2 much abt this 2 list...& the way u grew the list of adjectives 4 the robot was simply brilliant. oh & the robot jokes = classic. i had a few problems as a reader tho' -- "but beyond that" didnt seem a strong enuff transition. perhaps simply diff wording or a more abrupt change. just an overall classic pCe tho...really really memorable, fam.
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13559, RE: kick-ass robot Posted by blak_yukon, Sat Feb-07-04 11:18 AM
kick ass,m'man...kick ass... why do i see the star and sickle on dmitri,ha...nah,he's american made,s'all good.
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13560, i want a robot tooooooo Posted by 3rd i, Sat Feb-07-04 04:19 PM
that was awesome, original and FRESH!
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13561, RE: i want a robot tooooooo Posted by Imagination_7, Mon Feb-09-04 03:59 AM
Cosign that! I never wanted anything of the sort but sounds cool the way you put it. :) It really turned into something I didn't expect and that was awesome... a kick ass robot and love. What a perfect match. :)
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13562, made me... Posted by Natalie, Mon Feb-09-04 05:59 AM
feel like the little kid sitting on the swings alone just pushing a toe in the dirt dreaming up big schemes to escape the hurt of not having enough every day love...and it made me think of dennis the menace and charlie brown and that little boy robot with the giant one...
simply, i enjoyed all of this for many of the reasons that everyone has already mentioned.
peace,
n.
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13563, I want the scematics... Posted by PG, Mon Feb-09-04 09:09 AM
mad dope just wicked mad dope!
Pappa
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13564, ^UP^ 4 Witty Creativity --- Posted by PhotoSynthesis, Fri Feb-13-04 08:37 AM
^On Point^
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13565, RE: kick-ass robot Posted by Mahogany5952, Fri Feb-13-04 10:54 AM
This. . .I don't even know what to say about this. I am speechless. Do you have any clue how hard that is to do? (I have to go off on a tangent here. I HATE the phrase, "I am speecheless" even tho' I just used it. You're NOT speechless, cuz, um, you just spoke to utter the phrase. But I digress.) Okay, I'm back now. Phenomenal does not even begin to do this piece justice. It's like the desires and reality of the man wrapped up in the wishes and dreams of the boy tempered with the cynicism and transition and awkwardness and hesitation of the adolescent. It's time warp, acid trip of a piece (not that I'm a trippy kinda girl in the least) set to the music of Aquaboogie by Parliament and I LOVE IT!! Ridiculously, insanely, psychotically love it!
Mahogany5952
p.s. Not that you're responsible for the odd twists and turns of my mind, but thanks a lot. . .now I can't stop singing "PsychoAlphaDiscoBetaBioAquaDoodaloop! A motion picture underwater starring most of youdaloop!"
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13566, thanks, everyone... Posted by RatpackSlim, Fri Feb-13-04 11:07 AM
wow
from charlie brown to p-funk
y'all are too damn nice.
peace and robot grease, slim
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13567, RE: thanks, everyone... Posted by Mahogany5952, Fri Feb-13-04 11:12 AM
No, dearest. We're not too nice. We're just giving you the honest reactions. You are so unique. Sometimes you read and read and read stuff and it all starts to blur and be the same (thankfully I don't experience that on OKP), but that is something you will NEVER have to worry about. You're a true original. Now be nice and go read my stuff!!! Tho' the ones I've posted in the past couple days I don't like as much as the ones I posted a month or 2 ago.
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13568, this is the best poem... Posted by BarefootAquarian, Fri Feb-13-04 11:59 AM
I have ever read on OKP. Truly. And you know I always calls'em like I sees'em.
Dammit. Back to the lab.
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13569, Can We Get An ARCHIVE On This? Posted by PhotoSynthesis, Mon Feb-16-04 02:53 PM
I'll INBOX Know or Del -- Just 2 be sure! -- ;^)
We'll NEVER see another flow like this -- Unless Slim outdoes himself and tops this one -- *smiles*
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13570, co-sign on the ARCHIVE! Posted by Natalie, Mon Feb-16-04 03:47 PM
n/m.
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13571, Co~Co~Co~Signage -- Posted by PhotoSynthesis, Thu Feb-19-04 12:32 PM
With a kick~ass robot on top!
Let's put dimitri on his lil' "Archive" pedestal, puhleeeeze?
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