my friend peter (sellers) & emil & friends & my parrot
Prologue:
Peter Sellers died on July 24th 1980.
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I met Pete Sellers last week. His hair, what was left of it, was unkempt. Strands darted in every direction, but the majority lunged forward trying to jump ship. He was a lot thinner than I remembered from the movies. His clavicles, shoulders and neck formed a clothes hanger that propped up his head and hung his clothes loosely over his frail body. The glasses he wore were purely perfunctory as he could no longer see.
I asked, “How are you?”
He responded with “What?” while he cupped his hand against his ear.
I raised my voice and asked again.
He responded in the exact same fashion.
At this point I leaned in closely and began to shout my questions at him. “HOW ARE YOU?”
“What?”
“HOW! ARE! YOU!?”
“Okay.”
Emil and Friends – Downed Economy (Mr Vega Stimulus Remix)
Downed Economy 7″ (Downed Economy/Josephine) is out July 27th. Pre-order. Be-friend.
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Love On An Oil Rig is out in September. Be-friend.
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Epilogue:
Before I met Peter he had unsuccessfully tried to convince his female caretaker to help him do things with himself. His hands no longer functioned well enough to do it on his own. She was not pleased by this. Neither was he.
Well, he was Okay.
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The preceeding was a true story. The bands featured however, are imaginary.
