Secret Demons :: draft


 

A psychological thriller based on a dream of a film about vampires that soak blood through their skins in baths of blood, a concert promoter who is possessed by the devil, a stripper haunted by her own reality, and and other demons who interact in a web of the web while engaging the reader to listen, look, and read the horror. The horror.

 

   

Chapter one :: McDonald's on Ponce

  
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Chapter Two :: Pissing in the Sink

 

A spirit exits his body out of his back coming for me with the amorphous power of the devil, electric, arrogant, offensive, childlike, and fazing like the sound of a helicopter. The jagged edges of evil hover with static indecision, look around, then get sucked back in while he brushes his hair casually in the bathroom mirror and pisses in the sink at the same time.

Note to self. Find out how much an exorcism costs.

 

 

 

Chapter Three :: A Hero to the Kids
 

 

DON'T FORGET TO PRESS PLAY!!THEN COME BACK TO READ THE STORY.

to join the party.

Sleeping like a champion knocked out dreaming in bliss under cozy ass bed covers when the doorknob rattle wakes me up. An imperfect stranger walks into the darkness of the room directly into my personal purple tile bathroom and proceeds to take a mutherfucking shit while I lay there shitshocked. Sounds like my roommate came home from the club and brought half the mutherfuckers with them. It’s five something in the morning. All the lights are on in the house. There’s a line to the other bathroom five people deep. One punk ass mutherfuck has dropped his lit cigarette on the hard wood floor.  The blue tile bathroom door cracks open enough for me to see a grown man writhing on the floor with his eyes rolling back into his head so only the whites are showing.  Its like he’s possessed by the devil in this horror movie or a ridiculous toxic drug cocktail. Awesome. I love a party. It’s the after party and it’s at the house. Vietnam is here. Death from Above 1979, EMP and the Black Lips are here with all their sweet-rotten smelling groupies. There’s a creepy guy in the kitchen mixing liquid GHB drinks for all. Aren’t Monday mornings a mutherfucker

A mountain of the baby aspirin flavored orange alcohol infused drink Sparks was generously shipped to the house by Vice Magazine. I’m not proud. I take one back to my room mutherfucking shut the door and set up the marantz to record.

Hole up in my room with a 1974 wood grain analog television playing static thru a direct out, queue up brad pitt reads cormac mccarthy book on tape, turn on the analog electronic tambora, run the sound through a big muff distort pedal and build feedback from a set of baby moniters I play like an accordion. It’s loud in my room almost enough to drown out the rediculous early morning cocaine conversations. “Now that’s indie rock.” mutherfucker says from the hallway. His drug addled dry pit brain loves it. Title the song “Now that’s indie rock.” Another, “You are the devil. The next, “Satan was here but that’s OK so was Arunduthi Roy.” I finish an entire album in a few hours and call it Happy Birthday.

 

to hear Satan was here but that's OK so was Arunduthy Roy.

I stopped at Eats on the way home from work to pick up some black beans, rice and collards. It’s the night after the morning of the shit storm. The house feels like someone replaced all the bulbs with some fluorescent lights but they didn’t. I heard the guy who was overdosing in the bathroom woke up in a 10 year olds bedroom of the creepy guy with the roofies who took him home. Gross. I think this is the worst of it all, but it isn’t. Puddin Pants mutherfucking Randy’s girlfriend comes running out of the basement filled with appropriate 20-year-old drama crying, “I can’t take it anymore. I can’t!!” and exits the house.

“He’s pretty bad.” Roommate Tommy tells me defeated, nervous. I sit down to eat. Get prepared for the tempest downstairs.

He’s naked laying on his back on a bed that has no sheets, no covers, mutherfucking dirty sock on one foot with his head on a stained case less pillow. There’s fresh pink stains filled with bile mutherfucking snot and maybe blood. Not sure if they came from his stomach or chest. He’s breathing. Then he’s not. He’s breathing then he’s not. I stand there assessing the situation then yell his name loud. Louder. The loudest. No response. Shake him slap him lift him up and drop him. A low bassy gutteral inhuman sound oozes out with bubbles from his nose rotten below the septum and what looks lißke brain boil is struggling to bubble out of the hole but he’s not getting any air. Peel his eyelid back. His eyes are coated with a thick white glaze like death has started to set in mutherfucking vultures and satan is there waiting to take him back.

Get him off his back so he doesn’t drown in his own puke. Everyone knows this mutherfuckers right? His mouth is full of foamy phlegm and foodless vomit hacks of fleshy spew. I swipe as much out as I can and fling it aside. Pop a hole in the goo with my finger.  No signs of breathing. The paramedics assist me with mouth to mouth over the phone. It’s tough getting thru the slime.

The cops come first when you call the paramedics about a drug related overdose. They show up in less than ten minutes. “What did he take?” officer asks me. I recognize him. He’s been here before. I tell him, “Everything ” Cocaine mutherfuckers weed mutherfuckers alcohol mutherfuckers and I’m sure I saw him drink some GHB at around eight this morning mutherfuckers for breakfast. Not sure exactly though. Could have been anything: speed mutherfucking heroin mutherfucking sharpie. Who knows. Medical paper, tubes, bloody gauze and trash litter the room like the first leaves that fall at the beginning of autumn, scattered. They wheel him out shirtless strapped down to a wheelchair w/ an oxygen mask still unconscious.

Drugs are so cool. Great party.

 

 

 

 

 

 

chapter four:: wolf bear: wolf vs bear

  

 

 

John Cage & Marcel Duchamp walk into a bar. It is an empty bar. No furniture. No bartenders. Cage blares silence on a boombox that belonged to Basquiat. Duchamp stares out one of many windows. The room spins. Outside is blurred stationary moments of beauty.

Wolfbear stands in the middle of the room. He got in the room using his imagination. The artists hunt Wolfbear. They argue over who will use the spear because they both want the net.

Burning lavender against orange, the sunset shadows the bridge black. Figures coagulate with open faces. Silence blocks Wolfbear's path. Open mouths scream like teenage rockstar fans. Silence. They're faces say horror or joy.
 
The water beneath is a bubbling flourescent rapid flowing mess.

Lotus petals with fleshy thick skin tossed shredding in glass fragments and a bed of bloated cigarette butts.

Lining the eroding shore, massive unearthed worms chew the bleeding exposed roots of coconut trees. The gaping faces close in.  Wolfbear leaps over the bridge's ornate wood railing. And wakes up.

A dream.

He is pale, emaciated, and naked.  In a massive stone coffin. On his back, he sees he has breasts. A vagina bleeds from between his legs, lining the coffin. He tries to clamber from his mess. Long weak fingers find the lip.

"The difference between sympathy and empathy " is etched in the gold leafed ceiling over him, mimicking a loose panicked handwriting.

 

 

 

  

chapter 5:: urban yuppie vs bobby conn vs gregg

 

 

"I've got something for you," he said and curled his pointer finger in a follow me motion. Intrigued, I follow across the gallery space to the front by the windows where he pulls a plastic grocery bag from the other canvas bag he brought in earlier. Crouched down on the floor he pulls a brand new woman's black boot out of the bag and places it on the floor, gently... deliberately, as if it were Cinderella's own god damn glass slipper and looks at me for approval. "Nice." I say. He reaches for the other plastic bag and pulls out the jacket to a women's business suit circa 1985 and holds it up for display. "I don't wear business suits."

The front door opens. Thinking, another 7$ dollars the Bobby Conn. But no, it's Formica the ruthless resident from upstairs and he's upset. He's really sorry but its 12:30 and the music needs to be turned down. He needs to get up at 5:30am to go to work. He doesn't care if we play music till 8:00 in the morning on the weekend, but its Tuesday and he really needs to get some sleep.

"He really needs to turn it down," says the guy who moved into a downtown loft above a music venue. He. He. Why does he keep saying 'he' when there is obviously a full band playing downstairs. As if I can go downstairs and tell one guy. Hey! Could you turn it down! There is a guy upstairs who wants to sleep. He, Who is this he? Bobby Conn. I guess that is a he. Hey Bobby, could you turn it down?

An hour later Formica comes down again and this time he's insane. This guy was tortured with every violin noise and guitar lick that Bobby Conn birthed into a wave. He's Enraged, and yet composed. I tell him emphatically, seriously, compassionately, "I'll drive you to work." Apologies, apologies. And yes, I'll tell Him to stop. We are an hour and a half over the noise ordinance time and the "whole building" is up. He lives on the third floor and it is fucking loud. He's telling the owner of a gallery that has no owner. "This has got to stop! This has got to stop! I don't want to call the police but I will if I have to. So he did. And Greg, the scarecrow homeless guy who lives under the bridge up the street and self proclaimed cleaner of the gallery who was trying to sell me the shoes and grey pinstripe suit is now trying to get another 5 dollars off me. So I give it to him after he takes the trash out, not knowing that Alicia had already given him $5 and Bill gave him $2. That's $12 he made for picking up some cups and taking out 3 bags of trash.

None of us had a key to the closet, which Bobby Conn locked of course, because all of their stuff was in the closet, aka their dressing room where they changed into jogging outfits. At around 2:15ish we each take turns trying to break into the closet. Hopefull attempts to slide thru the crack at the top of the door didn't work. The violin player laments, "But all of our clothes are in there." And I get a nice visual of her having to go out, in public, in the fuscha satiny jogging suit pants. I retire to the bar to wait it out and Greg walks up to the closet door and opens it with a screwdriver in a matter of seconds, then asks for $5.

meanwhile for scenes from outside.