Notes Towards a Script

Kyrie: Obedience To Authority

In Which:

a victim is systematically destroyed
by an ‘innocent’
under the instruction of an (unseen?) authority.

there are harsh lights
there are harsh shadows
there is a voice
there are pure tones and feedback
is it all blamed on the audience?

Texts:

• our houses
• on milgram
• first gleaning/last light
• concentric circles, cyclical motion, habitual duplication
• "me, a sinner"
• "I can kill you but instead I hold you tight"

Gloria: Lady GaGa, Priest 

In Which:

Lady GaGa leads us
in a song-and-dance
in a dog-and-pony
in the can-can (because we can can can)
while people fall
- in love
- in hate
- in embarrassment
- in humiliation
- in sudden grief
- in anxiety
- in dread
- in distraction
- in envy
- in greed
- in lust

there are flashing lights
there is loud, catchy, music
there is sex and drinking and dancing
the space becomes rubble

Texts:

•  on random emotion 
•  Lady GaGa Lyrics?
• "I am Prahlada, born among the demons, and of all that measures, I am time."
• "I am I am the cow that fulfills I am the power of sex and the king."
• "If you would not be martyred slaves of time, be drunken continually."

Credo: An Army of God

In Which:

voices explicate on
- facebook/twitter updates
- fascism
- the news
- personal lives
- feminism
- terrorism
- queer theory
- war
- lucky’s think
to the point of violence
where everything is a rejection
and the words eat themselves
not trailing off, but growing in absurdist violence

there are no bodies, only words
the music moves from structure to mathematic deconstruction
are there projected words?

Texts:

• concentric circles, cyclical motion, habitual duplication
• Creeedo 
• credo motherfuckers
• Lucky's "Think" (Waiting For Godot) 

Sanctus: Ripples When You Stop

In Which:

bodies appear in the rubble
they shift / adjust / shift with the light
mirroring and repeating random emotions
but
it is all wrong
and now
there’s a war on
there is self memorialization
- of soldiers
- of suicide
objects are given meaning
sex is vore
Lady Gaga jumps from the Acropolis
and/or hangs herself
to save us all
there is slow pseudo-music
things stop and adjust as ripples
in all but silence

there is a candle
there is a shower/bath
there is making love in the darkness
there is standing up, sitting down, kneeling
things are repeated
does Brandon fail?

Texts:

• Sacrifice
• "my hell comes from inside myself. why fight this?"
• "no one’s gonna play the harp when you die"
• chants/kyrie 
• "what happens when the heart just stops?"
• "life feeds on life feeds on life feeds on life feeds…"
• "as man breathes, so does the universe"
• "what else do I have to do today?"
• Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note

Agnus Dei: A Conspiracy of Us

In Which:

Lady GaGa
is in rubble
finding her breath
with an object
which has meaning
and
one by one, others approach
and a chant begins a cappella
and ends in breathing
and light or darkness
or something

there is music in 6/8
there is food
are they somehow eating from Lady GaGa?

Texts:

• "My grandmother survived the war barefoot, scavenging other people’s inedibles: rotting potatoes, discarded scraps of meat, skins, and the bits that clung to bones"
• "no more to breathe, no more to grieve, coming home"
• "food is not food. it is terror, dignity, gratitude, vengeance, joyfulness, humiliation, religion, history, and, of course, love."
• "everyone’s afraid of their own life / remember to live before you die"