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A week without work, Mr. Hollywood and His Sinister Pro Street 'Vette
A week without work means eating my brother-in-law’s (good) leftovers (good) for lunch in a half-packed room with one Shiba Inu sighing lying down and pushing his face into my unmade bed. Means lots of questions about how I’m feeling—pretty good, thanks well. Means finding all the cool places in Columbus all of a sudden but also feeling a rush rising tide of anticipatory adrenaline whenever I hear certain cover songs: “When You Were Young” by The Killers, or “Sex on Fire.”
Means acknowledging tipping my cap to the unpayable debts I’ve accrued here. Means recognizing the deficit of energy and enthusiasm required to put together a decent admissible satisfactory thank-you.
Means having feelings set to clichés and then feeling clichéd, then turning to see the slits of a dog’s eyes a dog dreaming with his eyes barely halfway open, being twitchy and weird so that I wake him up and he stares at me in disbelief.
Mr. Hollywood is selling his one and only ‘86 Pro Street Corvette on Facebook for $85,000. There’s too much there for $85,000. If you’re not interested, don’t waste his time. He’s left several pictures, but the last picture has a link to a YouTube video, which, if you don’t have time to watch it the time to watch, is a video of exactly 180 seconds in length with exactly 0 words showing the ins, outs, and what-have-you oblique obscure bizarre sonic possibilities vested within of this absolutely Sinister Pro Street ‘Vette.
It wheezes, it whines, growls and gurgles. It can be very loud, but it can also be very quiet occasionally when it is turned off. It can also move forward and backward but and likes to hog the spotlight.
This is most evident during Take, for instance, the nighttime scene starting at 2:11 in above the aforementioned video when a petite, Herbie-esque car attempt tries to get some camera time, is denied largely ignored, and must approach the cameraman but is then startled (at 2:50) when the camera does pan toward it its way.
Mr. Hollywood’s Sinister ‘86 Pro Street Corvette would not shrink from the limelight like this!