#lotsofquestions

Your assigned kin is... Gunner from episodes 5 and 6!

StOP MAKING GREAT FANFIC IDEAS I CANT GO READ ANYWHERE

I would rather be a brainless monkey than a heartless monster.  ~ Goku

whats the tiny table for? : )

I have a few reasons to put my toe in the water (I can't start anything until I ask the doctor).

1 - tomato! (On the do not eat list) Every time we eat nachos or tacos I have insane pain - BUT it's everywhere, so I was dismissing it as something I cannot eat, like bananas (also on the list)

2 - I've had one allergy test in my life as a kid and I was allergic to strawberries, chocolate, spinach and cheese (all of which I figure I grew out of as I got older). I've mentioned strawberries to my doctor because it was the only one I reacted to. They are all on the list.

3 - Sensitivity to SSRIs. This one made me cry. It made me cry because if there is something out there that makes people sick when they take antidepressants it means it is not all in my head, which I know, but haven't been able to convince anyone. Literally a blob of malaise and I've forced myself to take them to prove to numerous doctors that I just can't, no matter how bad I want to.

There are a million other reasons. The main one being -> I need an answer, I need a starting point. Momentum. I have no momentum.

“COCKSUCKER BLUES PART 3″ by DJS

More.

8. We’re back at the pool.

Mick Taylor pops out of the water. He is interviewed by the side of the pool.

INTERVIEW       Since coming on, have you noticed a change in the band? Has the group dynamic itself changed? How have things shifted? Are you able to assert some kind of authority or style on the band? Is this change for the better or the worse you think? What’s your relationship like with Keith? Is there a healthy competition there? Do you think you ever might supplant him as a creative force? How deep does the rivalry go, and is that healthy? Have you had much input into the songwriting process? Would you like more? Are you content? To what level are you content? Or is discontent a good thing for an artist? How do you find the road? Is it hard being away from your wife and daughter for so long? Can we address the temptations inherent in such a lifestyle? Do you find yourself easily succumbing?

MICK T                Do I find myself what?

INTERVIEW       Easily succumbing. Can we talk about the quote-unquote groupie situation? Do you partake? Can we talk about the drug situation? Do you partake? Or do you consider it as part of your role to be the sober level-headed one, the stabilizing influence in the group, a role model of sorts, as opposed to the more hedonistic exploits of Mick & Keith? Do you feel an obligation to refrain as it were, to help rehabilitate the band’s image? Do you consider yourself to be the quiet one, how George was the quiet one? The quiet brooding one? The mature one? Where do you go from here? Where does the group go from here? What’s left? When you’re playing the biggest venues in the world, selling them out night after night, well, eventually you have to come down don’t you? Eventually there must be a fall? Or price to pay for such success? How many years do you think the band has left? How many good years? Or is it running out of steam as we speak? Are you immune to all this fame? Is the money really that good? I heard you were all in debt, I heard the tax situation was rather grim. Or was that only the original members? Can you comment on this? Can you comment on that? Can you see through it? Can you be objective to the fact that nothing lasts forever? Have you set aside any money for retirement? Can rock stars like yourselves age gracefully or is it all for not in the end? Exactly how old are you?

Mick T doesn’t say anything. Instead he spits water in the interviewer’s face. Playfully.

 9. Outside stadium. A local TV news crew talks to fans waiting to get inside.

TV                         Can you rate your level of excitement to see the Rolling Stones tonight on a scale of 1 to 10?

Ad-lib excited responses, “we love the Stones” “I’ve seen them however many times”

                             Was anyone at Altamont?

More ad-lib responses, “it was crazy” “I was right there, I saw them kill that guy” etc.

FANATIC            There’s like no security. Anybody could get in and just do anything. That’s what they don’t think about.

TV                         Were you at Altamont?

FANATIC            No but I wish I had been.

HYPE MAN  cutting in          Hey man! Hey! Hey, the guy you should be talking to is my friend over here boy!

TV                         Your friend? Who –?

HYPE MAN         He’s selling tickets man, he’ll hook you up. Front row, whatever you want. Ask him.

TV                         Is that right? Are you a scalper?

SCALPER            No

HYPE MAN         Oh he’s lying! We been out here all afternoon, made about two thousand so far. Tell him, man.

He doesn’t want to get in trouble with the police.

TV                         And how are you connected with –?

HYPE MAN         See what I do is, my job I go around the parking lot, round the crowd and see who needs what. Then I direct them to my man here for the exchange.

TV                         Uh-huh. Two thousand dollars. That must be quite the mark-up.