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Entropy Girl: I've been having trouble sleeping - / Cat: My head is swimming - / Cat: I'll get towels! / Girl: with THOUGHT / [[Cat comes back in a bathing suit carrying a towel and a water noodle.]] / Cat: Thinking is the OPPOSITE of doing / Girl: What has DOING ever done for anyone? / Girl: Except to habituate us to FAILURE / Cat: It's not everything - it's the only thing - / Girl: and if failure is inevitable / Cat: free with every purchase / Girl: is anything worth doing / Cat: mortality in fun-size bars.
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The Sandwich Artist Girl: What's the point of making anything / Girl: when everything's already been made / Cat: Everything has always already been made / Girl: and is AVAILABLE to us - all the time. / Girl: Every MOVIE is a remake - every BOOK is a conversation with the past - / Girl: every song is a pastiche of the songs that came before it. / Cat: If you wrote a book - / Cat: you write that book ONCE / Cat: and people can read it FOREVER - or until people stop reading books - / Cat: but you can make a hamburger a MILLION times - and whenever someone wants to eat your hamburger - you get to make it all over again! / [[Cat's tongue hangs out of his mouth.]] / Girl: This is why we pickle. / Cat: I knit.
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On Broadway [[Cat stands outside a ticket window waving two tickets in the air.]] / Cat: Got them! / Girl: Nice seats. / Girl: What are we seeing? / Cat: Schrodinger's CATS. / [[Girl frowns.]] / Girl: Comedy or tragedy? / Cat: BOTH.
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Holy Orders Girl: What is everything? / Cat: A thing is a thing. / Girl: A thing is what you bring to it- / Cat: A thing is what it is. A thing! / Girl: Your frame of reference- Your personal history- / Cat: You can't tell me things aren't just what I can see. / Girl: And every time you've seen them before! / Cat: A sandwich is a sandwich is a sandwich. / Girl: And red wine is just red wine? / Girl: There is something out there. / Cat: Something you made up! / Girl: Something we all made up. / Cat: Why did we do such a bad job?
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Climb Every [[Grrrl, sweating, approaches a mountain peak.]] / [[Grrrl, looking pleased, reaches the peak and sticks a flag into the ground.]] / <> / Grrrl [[raising fist]]: I claim this mountain for OBSCURITY! / [[Girl approaches from the other side of the peak.]] / Girl: I was here earlier. / Grrrl: Really? Oh. / [[Girl and Grrrl are on a slightly lower mountain.]] / Grrrl: I claim THIS mountain for obscurity. / Girl: I read about this mountain online. / [[On an even lower mountain...]] / Grrrl: I claim THIS mountain? / Girl: My friend told me about this mountain. Apparently EVERYBODY likes this mountain now. / [[On a very small hill...]] / Grrrl: I claim this mountain. / Girl: I hear this is the next big mountain. / [[Grrrl frowns.]] / [[Grrrl angrily sticks the flag into a small pile of rocks.]] / <>
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Culture Refereces About Pop Culture References Cat: You are what you do. / Girl: You are what music you listen to / Cat: You are where you came from. / Girl: You are your lunch selection. You are your bicycle. / Cat: You are the clothes you wear? / Girl: You are the clothes your FRIENDS wear. / Girl: You are photographs of yourself at a party / You are lists of your favorite books, movies and television shows / and NOTHING else. / Cat: Kids today. / Cat: Forced to grow up so slow.
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Stowaways [[Cat, in a sailor suit on the deck of the USS Context]] / Cat: ALL ABOARD / [[Grimacing girl, running while carrying a large bag and a smaller piece of luggage]] / <> / [[Cat, on the deck, frowning and looking at his watch]] / [[Girl, climbing up ladder on side of ship with her luggage]] / [[Girl, on deck with Cat]] / Girl: Reporting for duty! / [[Cat and Girl on deck of the USS Context, surveying the scene in silence]] / Girl: Everything looks so small from here.
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Etsed [[Girl and Grrl are at a market.]] / Girl: These vegetables look terrible. / Grrrl: That's because they're REAL! / Girl: The real is imperfect. / Grrrl: They're not filled with pesticides like your FAKE PLASTIC SUPERMARKET VEGETABLES! / Girl: Attaining perfection used to be a good thing. / Grrrl: Perfection is for advertisers and assembly lines. / [[Girl and Grrrl leave the market.]] / Girl: Even if it WAS impossible... / Grrrl: The dizzying heights belong to the corporations... / Girl: ...we got as close as we could. / Grrrl: ...the small, the imperfect the handmade - THESE are OURS. / Girl: And what's Icarus to do? / Grrrl: Take the bus!
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The Princess and the Pea [[Girl, flushed and smiling, walks into a kitchen.]] / [[Girl opens the refrigerator.]] / [[Girl opens a bottle of soda.]] / <> / [[Girl takes a sip of soda.]] / [[Girl frowns.]] / [[A sunny day outside. Cat sits on a beach chair, reading a book and smoking a pipe. Girl looks angry.]] / Girl: This isn't made with cane sugar!
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The Whole Ball of Yarn [[Silent panel. Cat and Girl are inside a house. Girl is knitting; Cat is holding yarn.]] / [[Girl is now holding a shovel. Cat is still holding yarn.]] / Girl: It feels GOOD to spend time... / [[Cat and Girl are outside on a farm.]] / Girl: ...making something SIMPLE and USEFUL... / Girl: ...SPECIAL... / Girl: ...but I don't know WHY. / Cat: I am waiting... / [[The sky grows darker.]] / Girl: Is it the romance of the object in the age of information? / [[The sky grows darker still.]] / Girl: The fetishizing of once-mundane chores... / Cat: ...for organic small-batch laundry. / Girl: ...or just the collective abandonment of larger ambitions? / [[Silent panel. Cat and Girl look at night sky.]] / Cat: You say that like it's a bad thing.
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Tie Me to the Mast [[Cat and Girl are walking outside.]] / Cat: I miss the simple things - / Girl: Uh oh. / [[Gray clouds gather.]] / Cat: Cassette tapes. Rotary phones! / Girl: We must be near a... / [[The sky grows black.]] / Cat: Summer camp. Starry nights. Eating beans out of a can. No hobo. / Girl: ...REALLY dangerous... / [[A large black hole appears, floating in mid-air.]] / Cat: Ah! / Girl: ...It's a NOSTALGIA HOLE. / [[Cat reaches an arm towards the hole.]] / Cat: What's inside? / Girl: DON'T GO IN! People get LOST in there FOREVER - / [[Cat puts his hand into the hole.]] / [[The hole is surrounded by musical notes. Rays of light shine out of it.]] / [[Cat's hand is covered in goop.]] / Cat: Evites? / Girl: What's that sound. / [[Girl puts her hands into the hole. Cat's mouth is covered in goop.]] / Cat: My selective memory isn't selective enough. / Girl: I hear my Tamagotchi calling!
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Just the Three of Us [[ Cat and Girl standing in white space ]] / Girl: Do you ever get the feeling you're being watched? / Cat: Only by the security cameras- / Girl: That privacy is a luxury- / Cat: And at the airport. / Girl: Most of us can't afford / Cat: And by bridges. / [[Cat observes rectangular device]] / [[Four arrows in a circle]] / Cat: And at Spencer Gifts / Cat: Now / Girl: <> / Cat: WHAT / Girl: Grrrl's making sorbet. / Cat: Do you have know what other people are doing CONSTANTLY / Girl: It makes me feel like / Girl: Life is moving forward. / Cat: <> / Girl: WHAT ARE YOU WRITING
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Chinatown [[Cat and Girl are browsing items in an outdoor market]] / Cat: Copies are getting better and better- / Girl: And BETTER means / Girl: more like the original? / [[Cat is hugging boxes]] / Cat: I'm never going to the movies again! / Girl: Because there is WRONG / Girl: and then there is DIFFERENT. / Girl: IF we accept that the only goal of a copy is to approximate the original- / Cat: and a pair of those / [[ Cat is wearing sunglasses with a cents tag]] / Girl: Then the more similar the copy and the original / Girl: The more important it is for one to be REAL and the other to be FAKE / Girl: Pinning their marketplace values on the theoretical existence of authenticity in a consumer culture. / Cat: It's the copy! / Girl: Its the original! / Cat: It's the copy AND the original!
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This Used to Be My Playground [[Surrounded by homes and houses, Cat and Girl look on]] / Girl: They built them faster than anyone could live in them / Girl: And now they just sit / Girl: Remnants of Dead possibilities / Cat: It's hard to believe now / Girl: A ghost town / Cat: That anyone thought there were enough people in the world for all these Blogs / [[Wind blows, Cat and Girl look nervous]] / Cat: Did you hear something? / Girl: Let's go back to Tumblr
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We've Got a Fuse Box and We're Gonna Use It Girl: YAWN / Cat: You've got sleepydust! / Girl: A little. / Cat: I've got some on my head! / Girl: That's dandruff - / Girl: We are constellations of gross things / Cat: BLOOD and GUTS - MUCUS and SNOT - / Girl: held together by ego / Cat: surrounded by OTHER constellations / Girl: and the delusional promise of something beyond ourselves. / Cat: The only lights in our dark sky! / [[Cat and Girl's hands reach out to each other.]] / [[The lights go out.]]
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