VIDEO Track 001

[sweetdreamsare]

[ It took Peter a while to figure out the whole smartphone thing. To be fair though for him 'a while' was like... five minutes. Maybe six. Oh he still hadn't figured out EVERYTHING yet, but like the basics? Totally down. He had to fight the urge to try and take it apart and put it back together again. He had a feeling it was waaaay more complicated then the walkmans and arcade cabinets he pulled apart and tweaked. ]

This thing is so awesome... Like something outta a scifi flick or something...

[ There's a guy with a silver mullet and motorcycle goggles perched on his head on the screen. No really. Dude looks like he walked right outta the 80s. He pretty much did too. There's also an odd high pitched buzzing noise in the background. Technically it was music. A mix of Queen, David Bowie, Rush, and Pink Floyd. Not that most would notice. It was being plaid at like... several hundred times the normal speed. Luckily Peter notices he left his walkman on and he flips it off after a couple seconds. ]

Anyway, hey. Name's Peter Maximoff and it's come to my attention that it is the year 2016. Last I checked it was 1983.  That means I'm missing out on 33 years worth of music and that's a damn tragedy. [Clearly that's his most important issue here now. ] So y'know. I need recs from all you future people! What's good? What sucks? I'm not too picky about genre but I gotta have music or I'll probably go crazy.

[ OK so really he's still worrying about his mom and his sisters and the kids at the Prof's school and other family issues that he just really doesn't wanna think about daddy issues don't ask. So to keep his mind off things he's just gonna think about music and stuff because running more laps around the city really isn't helping him much. ]

Oh! And video games. There's gotta be like at least a dozen new versions of the Atari and ColecoVision by now, right?

Comments

[penthesileia]

The theory of relativity states that as one approaches light speed, they will experience time more slowly. If two clocks are synchronized and one sent into orbit and the other left on earth, the one in orbit will eventually fall behind the one on the surface.

I could accept that as an easy explanation for you experiencing the world at a different pace than others, but you aren't moving that fast right now.

[sweetdreamsare]

Okay I think I get where you're going here. When I'm running around and shit that's when things really do slow to a everyone-is-statues crawl. When I'm doing the normal everyday force myself to slow down dealio, because trust me I'm honestly way more comfortable skipping around at just past the sound barrier, I'm probably perceiving the world about the same as you or whatever but that doesn't stop me from thinking everything is soooo sloooooow.

[ He's talking rather quickly here. ]

Like picture this you're at a store and you got like this one item you cam in to get real quick and you have somewhere you need to be like riiiiight after. But there's only one register open and the person in front of you keeps asking the cashier all these dumb things about each of the hundred things they got in their carriage and they keep asking the same things over and over again and you just keep getting more and MORE impatient because you need to get wherever you're going and you know if it was your turn you'd be in and out in less then a minute no hassle but instead YOU'RE STUUUUCK behind the slowest person imaginable and it's just really really annoying and you wanna shake 'em and be like PLEASE HURRY IT UP SOME OF US HAVE LIVES YOU KNOW.

[ DEEP BREATH. ]

Anyways that's my life.

[penthesileia]

[That is... honestly very difficult to keep up with. She does a fairly admirable job of it, though.] That sounds frustrating, to say the least.

I'm imagining you always talk that quickly, then. [She says dryly.]

[sweetdreamsare]

Yeah pretty much. Sometimes I talk quicker. The more I talk the faster it gets. You can yell at me if it gets too much I can take it down a notch.

[penthesileia]

I see. That's fair.

...why don't you just listen to faster genres of music?

[sweetdreamsare]

Because I love ALL the music! If I just looked for one type of thing I'd miss all the other cool songs out there.

[penthesileia]

Reasonable.

I wonder if there's some way to listen to the radio at an altered speed... these devices are so advanced, after all. Perhaps they can record several channels at once, allowing you to play one back at the frequency you're used to-- and then switch when you've caught up?

[sweetdreamsare]

That would be SO rad. You think something like that's really possible? Are you good with that kinda thing?

[penthesileia]

Ah... maybe? I'm not sure, you'd really have to find someone good with that sort of thing; I'm really not, I'm afraid. But I'm certain there are inventors here who might be able to help.