Thursday, May 21, 2009

Trixie had a gig

Way deep on the Downside.....a dive couldn't get much below this place....it was so far down it was at the top of the Downside, you see what I mean?  The Blue Geisha is a very strange place....for centuries it's been doing the same trip....blues music played by three ladies done up as geishas....when Felicita decided to marry her spaceman and get away from the damned Wandering City once and for all, she tossed her electric samisen and her silk robes and stuff to her roomie, and so Trixie got promoted from bar girl to blues singer.  And she was pretty good at it....sitting cross-legged on the bamboo mat, she would crank up the fuzz and "Look out your window at the break of dawn, see me down the road I'm gone"....or "If it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all".....that kind of tune.  The other two geishas pumped the back beat on bass and drums, and a bleary crowd of dopeheads and drunks and spacemen and other Downside trash would shag-dance and whistle and whoop and sometimes throw bottles....at the band, or at each other....good thing they only had those plastic bottles like they have at ball games, or somebody might get hurt.....the robobouncer would cause the really foolish clowns to chill.....he would hit them with a freezebeam, and then throw their frozen asses in the alley out back.  So you just kept up the boogie music and they would dance and buy drinks....or you slowed it down and really moaned a mean blues and they would all cry in their beer....and buy another round.....you got a share of the door, a share of the bar, and the hard money they tossed on the mat.  Trixie kept her blond hair cut short, and used Felicita's big wig, you know, with the chopsticks stuck through it.....there was this cyborg who would come in on sax some times....he was really good......

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