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Pajama Party in a Haunted Hive [[Pitch black]] / [[Pair of eyes open]] Girl: I can't sleep. / [[Another pair of eyes open]] Cat: I haven't slept since Tuesday. / Girl: I'm worried-- / Cat: Or last Tuesday. It was a Tuesday in March. / Girl: Life is meaningless [[frowns]] / Cat: Now all the colors are brighter - and my ideas sound...
Gravedigger Blues [[A clod of dirt flies out of a grave.]] / <> / Voice: Is it a SECRET? / Voice: It's a / Voice: It's an arrowhead. / Voice: The secrets must be buried deeper. / [[Girl is digging while Cat reads a map.]] / Cat: Deep dark secrets - deep personal secrets / <> / Cat: HA! / [[He opens a...
Cast a Shadow [[Cat and Girl strolling outside, Cat holding phone ]] / Girl: What if we ARE in a cave- / Girl: And everything we see and experience / Girl: Is just SHADOWS of the REAL THING / Cat: We need a vacation / Girl: {{ shaded }} or / Girl: {{ heavy shading }} GASP / Girl: What if WE'RE the real thing / Girl:...
Bonfire <> / [[Girl takes her photo in the bathroom mirror]] / <> / [[On the other side of the mirror, a dark Girl covered in blood does the same.]] / <> / [[Girl takes her photo.]] / <> / [[Bloody Girl takes her own photo.]] / Cat: And one for the Christmas card! / <> / [[Bloody...
T.V. Girl [[Cat and Girl watch television.]] / Girl: We've learned to be watched / Girl: We exists not to do but to be observed doing / Girl: When everything's recorded we act for the recording / Girl: When every thought has an audience you think for the audience! / [[Girls' voice is obscured by static]] / <http://catandgirl.com/?p=2917
 
Playhouse [[Cat and Girl are hiding behind some bushes.]] / Girl: Does the world exist only in our observation of it - or do we exist only as observed by the world? / Cat: So should we WATCH TV - or BE on TV? / Girl: Are we the photographer or the photographed? / Cat: To ACT is to LIVE / Girl: To observe is to...
Cat and Girl ? Archive ? Ponytail Girl: What's up?
Apologies [[Girl is angry.]] / Cat: I got you a CARD / [[Girl holds the card.]] / Girl: "People do terrible things to one another." / <> / Girl: "Surprise." / [[She looks up.]] / [[She looks angry.]] / Girl: I WASN'T SURPRISED.
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Peak Nostalgia Production Girl: Everything old is new again - / Cat: Anything new can look old! / Girl: Polaroid apps / Cat: Civil War reenactments / Girl: Retro Soul / Cat: Soul music is back! / Girl: Retro swing is back - same suits - new referents / Cat: Using our NEW technologies to perfectly recreate the past / Girl: There's...
 
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Apostles Girl: I can't believe that there's anything out there / Cat: Then the WORLD is what's important. / Girl: I don't believe in the world. / Cat: You BELIEVE in your COUNTRY. / [[Cat waves a flag.]] / Girl: I don't believe in my country! / Cat: So your subculture gives meaning - / Girl: I don't believe...
Cat and Girl ? Archive ? March to the See [[bright...]] / Girl: There's no point in being smart. / [[...with clouds gathering...]] / Girl: There's no point in being clever. / Grrrl: Good! / Girl: There's no point in being right. / Grrrl: Nothing obscures the truth like fact. / Girl: Like a bon mot to a flame. / Grrl: There's no point in being...
Conservation of Matter Girl: I don't want an NPR tote bag. / Girl: I don't want my photograph taken on a roller coaster / Girl: and I don't want the typed instructions of a conceptual art piece calling itself the work! / Cat: Birthdays will be tough this year. / Girl: Why does every value and experience have to be interpreted...
 
Conversation of Matter [[Conservation of Matter drawing, ripped to pieces]]
Main Street Girl: TV - or movies? / Cat: Is that a riddle? / Girl: movies end / Cat: Can I win a magic apple? / Girl: but television - RETURNS. / Cat: I'll share it with my magic horse? / Girl: It's a reason to keep going - an appointment - a RELATIONSHIP / Girl: A CHOICE - of one way communication / Cat: I'm sorry...
Destiny's Child Girl: Bills, bills, bills. / Girl: Everyone wants to be real. / Cat: Gates, Clinton, Cosby. / Cat: Hickok, Buffalo. / Girl: I want to be fake. / Cat: - Bo Baggins, - The Cat. / Girl: We shouldn't have to match our ideals to our biography. / Girl: Or disappear into the minutiae of everyday life. / Cat:...
Begins with a Single Misstep [[Girl and Cat stand behind a suitcase and a duffel bag.]] / Girl: Everything we love goes away - / Girl: so I packed your bags / Girl: and made you some sandwiches. / [[Girl hands Cat a small paper bag.]] / Cat: What if you're the one who goes away? / [[Both Cat and Girl look at the luggage.]] / Girl:...
The View From Here [[Cat and Girl are in a boat. Girl bails water.]] / <> / [[Cat smokes his pipe.]] / <> / [[Girl is sweating.]] / Girl: We'll never GET there like THIS! / [[Cat looks in the bucket.]] / [[He puts the bucket on his head.]] / [[Darkness.]] / Cat: Right now I'm anywhere I want to be. / Girl:...
 
Bottle Episode [[Beatnik Vampire is increasingly surrounded by beer cans.]] / [[Grrrl is increasingly surrounded by records.]] / Girl: We're ALL in bottles / Girl: bottles we made ourselves / Girl: to insulate us from the world / Girl: and from each other. / [[Cat is inside a giant bottle.]] / Cat: Have you...
Google Translate Girl: People say "borrow" when they mean have. / Girl: When they mean "borrow" they say "see" / Girl: Words can be so ambiguous. / Girl: So I'm being buried with all of my stuff. / [[Girl leaves.]] / Cat: We should finish watching "The Wire" first!
In Lieu of Donations Send Flowers Girl: Privacy is DEAD. / Cat: How did it die? / Girl: That's all ANYBODY asks! / Girl: We spend years living - and just minutes dying - / Girl: and all anybody wants to know is - how did they die - how did they die / Girl: Hoping for an answer we can misinterpret as THAT WILL NEVER HAPPEN TO ME. / Cat:...
A Night at the Opera [[Cat sits in front of the TV, watch out, anticipating]] Cat: Ready...ready... / Cat: Hooray! / [[Cat and Girl sit on the couch in front of the TV]] Cat: TV is classy now! / Girl: Already? / Cat: So I guess I'm classy now / Girl: I guess anything gets classy if you wait long enough- / Cat: All my life...
Contentment Provider [[Bad Decision Dinosaur sees a sign...]] / {{FREE LUNCH}} / [[He stuffs hot dogs in his mouth.]] / [[He gorges on the muck from buckets labeled "More."]] / [[Mayonnaise runs down his face.]] / Bad Decision Dinosaur: OOOOOOOOOOO / Offscreen Voice: FREE DINNER / Bad Decision Dinosaur: YESSSS
 
I want to be forgotten but not too soon Cat: I want to be FAMOUS / Girl: I want to be important / Girl: Famous is like important but for stupid things / Cat: Important is like famous but nobody cares! / Cat: Now you can pretend that people care what you think! / Girl: Now you can pretend that people care who you are! / Cat and Girl: Now...
Soft Shelled Crabs Girl: Any pose held too long calcifies. / Cat: Garbage kept too long becomes history. / Girl: A belief believed too long becomes dogma. / Cat: An opinion said too much becomes fact. / Girl: Any expression held too long will harden into a mask. / Cat: Apple juice left too long becomes vinegar. / [[Cat...
Everybody Else [[In the background is a supermarket shelf stocked with coffee.]] / Girl: What did people do before stores played music? / Cat: They didn't dance in stores? / [[Hot dogs.]] / Girl: Before stores had cameras everywhere. / Cat: They weren't recorded dancing! / [[Peppers.]] / Cat and Girl: It's a two way street! / [[Floor.]] / Girl:...
New is the New Old Cat: BOOOOO / Cat: Authority - Boo / Girl: Disorganized self-interest is the new authority / Cat: What was the old authority? / Girl: Moral certitude / Girl: And disorganized self-interest. / Girl: And television. / Cat: Television is the new morality play? / Cat: Computers are the new televisions. / Girl:...
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