CHAPTER ONE

[perturbator]

[The video comes in rather unfocused at first, until some noisy fiddling brings a pair of 80s style Air Jordans into view.]

There's probably other things I should be asking first, but I only have two questions right now. One: How's the weather in California this time of year?

[If this place really is different, the forecast won't be nuclear fallout. People will be there again. America might be whole again.

Quickly, the camera shifts to a small coffee table with several different newspapers strewn all over it, but with a DVD copy of Terminator 2 on top.]

Two: How the fuck do you rewind this thing?

Comments

[perturbator]

[Don't be jealous that he's from 1989 Jeff ok]

No rewind?

[His voice, despite his situation, has stayed fairly blase, but he almost sounds appalled now.]

How do you go back, then?

[textualhealing]

[He is so jealous. Great times, man.]

Just skip back. I mean you can still technically rewind but now you got chapters and crap for ease, or just skip frames.

[perturbator]

Individual frames? No shit.

[He may have found this DVD player in a dumpster. It may not have a remote. He'll get there.]

[textualhealing]

Yup. Motherfucking wizardry. And pause actually pauses crap now, rather than sends the whole screen into some crazy jive. And wait until you see blu ray on a hi-def TV.

[perturbator]

Pause paused before.

[Doesn't sound like he'll be moved on that opinion.]

What the fuck is blue ray? That like that laser disc shit?

[textualhealing]

Yeah, sure, something like that. It's the hi-def of hi-def. You've come to a good time, other than the whole Cold War crap going on.

When you from, anyway?

[perturbator]

[AS CLOSE TO THIS FACE AS HE'LL EVER GET because ew laser discs THEIR STORAGE CAPACITY WAS A NIGHTMARE]

1989.

["When." He must be stoned.]

[textualhealing]

[Omg hdu say a bad word against laser discs!!!1]

'89, huh? Ghostbusters, Indiana Jones, Licence to Kill... good year. Not so great with the fashion though.

[perturbator]

[Did you really experience that pain Jeff]

Isn't Ghostbusters a kid's movie?

[Not really, but compared to the schlock he watches, it looks like it.]

[textualhealing]

[So offended! Except not really.]

Nah, a family film at most. A good one. Scares the crap out of kids. You didn't see it?

[perturbator]

What was that--- '84? Nah, if you wanted a horror movie then, it was C.H.U.D.

[Hello my name is not really Jacket and I love B movie crap]

[textualhealing]

Second one was out in '89. You got that to look forward to.

C.H.U.D though? Really not that great.

[perturbator]

It wasn't a kids' movie.

[textualhealing]

Neither is Ghostbusters! At least Ghostbusters wasn't about sone weird... underground dweller. It was more comical than creepy.

[perturbator]

I dunno, C.H.U.D. was pretty hilarious.

[As over the top violence was considered back then. Healthy times.]

[textualhealing]

And lacked in any actual horror. It was lame.

[perturbator]

Had blood in it, though. Not the shitty squib kind, either.

[textualhealing]

Eh. Still sucked pretty bad. It had nothing on Ghostbusters.