It got me to thinking "What album's exploration do I think would make for an interesting read?"
So far, I have come up with David Bowie's Diamond Dogs (or Ziggy Stardust) or De La Soul's 3 Feet High and Rising.
What are your ideas?
As a teenager I crafted a screenplay to Diamond Dogs in my head. I would play it out like a noirish sci-fi movie behind my eyelids as I listened to the album.
Later in life I would develop a friendship with another music obsessive by the name of SD who wrote a short story inspired by the album during his formative years.
I never committed my screenplay to paper though, but lest you think I lacked the creative fire I must admit that I did write a short story based on this t-shirt...
I can't remember that much beyond the fact that it was a horror as social satire type plot. Society's fear of the misfit outcast would whip this swarm of vengeful rats into a killing frenzy.
Sadly this undoubted literary gem was written on an electric typewriter and lives on solely as a vague memory now.
I thought maybe if I could procure this t-shirt through an online marketplace maybe more details of this writing exercise would meander out from the fog of my adolescence.
Now I wish I had been a little more fastidious about keeping my old concert t-shirts. $159 bucks!?
That would be easy money, as opposed to all that research and writing those 33 1/3 books undoubtedly take. Ah well...
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