2003-06-27 - 2:13 p.m. Rock Your Body This is my favorite entry to date. It stems from things I hate. 1) Talking to people on the train while I am reading AND listing to music. 2) People who put song lyrics in their entries. It�s set on the Commuter Rail and I sit in a seat where someone sits across from you. I am reading my new Novel and listing to a burned CD. You will here four voices in this passage. ----- The centered and italicized text is the song I am listing to, Justin Timberlake�s Rock your Body. ----- The Gumphood is me talking ----- The Lady is this nice lady who sometimes talks to me when I am in a good mood. ----- The bolded words are my inner dialogue I hope you enjoy it because I have been working on this one for a while now and put a lot of effort into making it all fit. Enjoy. Train Lady: Good Morning Gump; how are you today. *lady sits down across from me* Gumphood: Good Morning Not today� WHY!!! I just want to read my book. Train Lady: Oh that looks interesting, is it about Nostradamus? Oh god lady. It says it�s a Novel right there. I can barley hear you. Gumphood: Well, it�s a novel, so it�s not about Nostradamus the guy. Train Lady: Oh�so what is it? Dear God; let her be silenced Gumphood: A novel. A story. Train Lady: Well why did they call it Hey Nostradamus? I can�t believe this song is so good. I can�t believe she is talking to me Gumphood: Do you want to know what its about; or why its named that? You idiot, that�s an engaging question�OH GOD. She�s gonna talk to you everyday Train Lady: I guess both�but start with what it�s about? I just want to rock you lady� Gumphood: It�s about school shootings Train Lady: Oh�so it�s about Columbine. Its about time you shut up and let me find out what it IS about Gumphood: No, not really. It�s a novel three times the charm Gumphood: About school shootings. It takes place in 19Train Lady, until 2002. A group of students kill their classmates during their lunch period in the caf�. She looks stunned�maybe I am being to mean�I really want to dance. This guy�s like a young Michael Jackson Train Lady: Oh�that�s a long school shooting? Did he say �The air; The stink is smelling right? Gumphood: What was that�sorry? Train Lady: Oh, just that it seems like a long time for a shooting in a school. Yes it was a 14 year holdup�they ate sloppy Joe�s to stay alive. Gumphood: No you see it�s told from four different perspectives. It�s about the reactions to the incident. Gumphood: The first is the girl who was murdered narrating her own death. She is really religious. She just got married to her boyfriend in secrete. Gumphood: The second is the Boyfriend/Husband, who doesn�t die in the shootings, but can�t get past seeing her killed. He can�t let go, but tries to move on by dating someone else. Gumphood: The last two are his new girlfriend (the dead girls friend) who tries to turn HIS life around, and then finally the Dad of the Husband/Boyfriend who has imposed such strict religion onto his son. I came to dance with you Well that was a narrative in of itself. I hope I didn�t bore her. This song is so good. Good lord. I must be getting old. I came to romance with you Train Lady: That sounds really interesting Is that lip service? Gumphood: I think it is�. It's time to take a chance If love is here on the floor, girl Train Lady: So what happens? maybe if I could read? Gumphood: Well I am not sure yet, but I�ll kept you in the loop YES FREEDOM Train Lady: So then why is it called Hey Nostradamus? ugh
I can�t believe I just clapped to a Justin Timberlake song Gumphood: Well, there is a twist. Train Lady: More of a twist? Gumphood: Yes. The girl who dies�she leaves something cryptic on her binder before she dies Why am I doing this? Gumphood: She leaves her last will and testament in the binder. But its more of a note about the future�to Jason her husband and father of her child; the child dies in her womb in the shooting. Dance with me Just let me rock you (Do do do do) Till the break of day (Come on and) Dance with me Train Lady: Wow. So what does it say? Gumphood: Well I am not sure yet, but I think the title is more clever than just that. Gumphood: You see I think that it�s about time for you to stop talking to me Gumphood: About the connections between people. Gumphood: As the girl dies she doesn�t understand why God would engineer a school shooting; why that�s part of his plan. Gumphood: I think it�s about how things fit together even though sometimes they don�t seem to be related. How actions have their consequences; in the absence of God. Train Lady: That sounds really exciting. But I am not sure how it all relates? Gumphood: I just think that we always use God as the reason why things happen, when in reality it has mostly to do with choices we make. Train Lady: I think I understand. The novel sounds very dense. NOVEL! Now you on your horse. Are we at the station yet? Gumphood: You would be surprised how so much confusion reads very quickly. We are. Great�Early too!!! Train Lady: I don�t know�I think I just might be confused the whole time and not get what the author is trying to do. Gumphood: I think that he spells it out pretty clearly, or at least he hopes he does. Last stop; North Station. Time to get off. I�m gonna rock my body, on the way. | |||||||||||
