your library is your portrait

Is there such thing as a good Christmas request? 

Yes, there is. Are you always so grumpy?

Exactly. The season for guilt free indulgence, for sure. 

Your mother sounds adorable. I’m surprised any of those mugs have made it what with having 8 kids running around. 

That is a pretty good description of the Christmas holidays.... and I love it.

So I take it a love connection won’t be happening anytime soon?

No, probably not.

I may have one or two tucked away somewhere. Purely for aesthetic purposes. Otherwise I take my eggnog in a nice hearty cup. Damn the calories.

That’s true. It’s Christmas, so who cares? The tiny mugs are kind of cute though. My mama has, like, an entire collection.

Ah shit, my bad. I usually perform in Times Square. Probably the most traffic.

I’ll be there, maybe tomorrow. Expect some good Christmas requests.

Eight.

A regular Brady Bunch crew then. Sounds…..chaotic? 

That’s a fair reference. I guess so, but most families seem to be chaotic in one way or another. My family’s all very close, so it’s always been a good chaos? If that’s a thing.

Rock, mostly. That’s my main genre. 

I mean, like... your physical location. You’re a street musician, right? I’ll keep the genre in mind though. I like rock too.

Ah. I guess that’s a little less romantic.

He is cute. But the drink was gross, so I can’t forgive him for that.

It’s the only one that matters.

Maybe the one you think is the hottest one isn’t the one I think is the hottest twin.

Maybe not. 

But the looks on their faces would be well worth it. 

This is true. It might’ve been more peaceful in a way too. Because it always ended up with all of us playing our music really, really loudly... I’ve got eight siblings.

You know… I’ve seen several parodies, but not the actual film. Is it one of your go-to’s?

Oh, yeah. It definitely is. I’ve watched it every Christmas for as long as I can remember... probably because it’s one of my mother’s favorites.

As long as I can play it, and I can play most songs by ear. If I haven’t heard it before you might need to pull up a video or something.    

I’ve got a few suggestions. Where do you usually play?

Toss a fiver in my guitar case and I’ll perform whatever song you want. Catch me around sometime and maybe you’ll hear me do it. 

Any song?

Well isn’t that an idea. I, personally, used to destroy my siblings boomboxes when they were blasting the undesirable tunes. So this is a level of petty that I can relate to. 

That is also one way to do it. I’m not sure I would’ve survived doing that, though.

Someone’s gotta make sure you live to pay your portion of the rent at the end of the month, right?

Why does it sound like the dude has a crush on you? Did he sign it with little x’s and o’s?

That is true.