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"Rock and/or Roll, Bitches"

Two Years Later  by justhoff
Two years later, Everything was found walking about of the Betty Ford Clinic with the spoon-player rolling behind. When asked why he was inside he said, "It was the Rolling Stones thing to do."

He apparently had been visited by a plastic surgeon, or many of them, as he looked younger than when he was touring with the Balzacs.

During the absense, fans thought he was dead and bought memorbilia at paramount prices. But no one was asking for him to return and produce a new album. Everything didn't care what the public thought. He was a new man, restored to a younger self. He went ahead with recording.

There was nothing left for him to draw funds on. The bank had forclosed on his last home to pay for rehab. The spoonsman was an experienced theft from his days in Ireland. As a child he had to steal his food after being tossed from the local orphanage. His name was McLaddle then, but it's Nowhere now. Just Nowhere, not "Nowhere now."

Everything charged Nowhere with robbing music stores for equipment and groceries for food. It took him seven minutes to strut out of Larry's Guitar on 7th with a '63 Stratocaster, gold trim and crimson-satin body. The drum kit took him almost a week; after all how can you walk with even a five-piece under your coat.

They set everything up under and overpass. Traffic swished by from two till four AM. The rest of the day it was quiet as most of the traffic was at a halt. "Crystal Jesus" was recorded during morning and evening rushhour. Everything provided all of the vocals and instruments. Nowhere was sound engineer.

Distribution was a bitch. The only bitch that Everything could not rock. He had to peddle his music to students and secretaries on city plazas. Nowhere found this to be a difficult time, having to steal sixty or seventy packs of batteries.

The public responded at their own speed. Sales weren't enough to buy Everything anything. He resorted to giving the albums away. Before the right hand came along, Nowhere turned ill. He began coughing blood speckled with bits of phlegm. He woke up three days after County Hospital admitted him, not remembering the past weeks. Everything stuck by his side.

"How's the album selling?" Nowhere asked.

"Not good," Everything said, fluffing his hair.

That's when the album starting selling. That very moment; right when Everything fluffed his hair.
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Date created: June 4, 2008
Date published: June 4, 2008
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