video; @star.lord

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[ Distinguished and not-so distinguished residents of Riverview, hello.

Currently, you are graced with a mugshot of one Peter “Space-Duke” Quill and a view of the messier half of his shared apartment. In his hand is his trusty mp3 player – which boasts at least three hundred songs, holy crap, y’all – and while he has one bud in his ear, the other dangles from the wire. ]

So. Apparently if nothing else, this place has, like, all the music ever. So if I’ve gotta be stuck here, might as well make the most of it, right?

I’m on the hunt for somethin’ new. Tryin’ to play a whole lot of catch up. If anyone’s got any music recommendations, I’m all ears. Songs, artists, albums, weird, avant-garde stuff with a guy saying “number nine” over and over – hit me with your best shot. I’ll try anything once.

Also, uh.

[ A pause, and he turns the mp3 player’s face toward the camera. The screen happily displays the album art of The Best of Earth, Wind & Fire, Vol. 1 while “September” plays. Zunes, man!! Aren’t they rad? ]

Don’t suppose anyone here’s familiar enough with this that they can show me how to add stuff?

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[thelast]

[it's k. she won't tell anyone about the more embarrassing ones.]

Cool. It feels good to share this stuff.

[Not something she got to do often until now. rip your storage space, quill.]

How do you feel about movie songs?

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[ It's cool, dude, Peter has thirty whole gigs. ]

Depends. Do you mean "movie songs" as in "songs written for movies"? Like "St. Elmo's Fire" or "A View to a Kill"? Or do you mean like, musicals? Like stuff from Xanadu or Grease?

[ A pause, then he clicks his tongue. ]

I don't even know why I'm asking. I'm good with both.

[thelast]

[Hearing Xanadu makes her give a small smile.]

Good, because I was going to suggest both types. I have a soft spot for Take My Breath Away if that'll help fill in the mid-eighties for you.

["Soft spot" because there's no such thing as "guilty pleasures" in her book.]

How did you get into being such a big music lover? That's usually reserved for people with a lot of spare time on their hands.

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[ ... why is that title so familiar. He frowns for a second, and when it finally clicks, he flashes a delighted smile. ]

Wait. That's from Top Gun, isn't it? [ Only one of the best movies ever?

Her question, though, seems to subdue him a little, though he still keeps the smile. ]

I guess I— sort of inherited it. The radio was kind of constantly on when I was a kid. Didn't really get a chance to keep up the habit, but I've got nothing but time now, you know? Considering—

[ A vague wave of his hand, as if to say, You know, the way the portal kidnapped us. ]

[thelast]

[No one's ever been more patient and pleased with themselves as Death is when it dawns on him.]

Got it in one!

[There are talkers and there are listeners. Definitely leaning to the latter when she holds up her cheek as if it's story time.]

So kind of a legacy thing. Not everyone inherits a cool one from their family, or gets a chance like this to fulfill it.

[The Bright Side: A novel by Death.]

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[ Peter breathes out a single, joyless sort of laugh at that, fiddling with the wire of his headphones. ]

Yeah. Tell me about it.

[ Because sometimes instead of something cool, like a love of music, you might inherit something seriously crappy, like insane, megalomaniacal ideas about taking over the universe and painting the cosmos in your image.

Which is lame. ]

I’m lucky I got this instead of, like, an affinity for stamp-collecting.

[thelast]

Stamp Lord.

[After a second she laughs silently through her mostly closed lips.]

Yeah, doesn't have the same ring Star does.

[At least he got a sweet username out of it all. In her opinion anyway.]

Hm. I'll jump ahead a little and give you another. Dreams by The Cranberries. [Almost a decade is a little for her, ok.] One of the "feel good" ones.

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[ His nose wrinkles at that.

"Stamp-Lord."

Lame. ]

I'll add that one to the list. Hell, if you wanna just dump a giant list of songs on me, I'm open to it.

[thelast]

Oh I think I can put a nice list together for you. I've got the time now. Want that in person or just have it sent to star.lord?

[Death does deliveries. Who knew?]

[nostalgiabomb]

I'm good with either. A list might help in case I need to come back around to it later. But if you wanna do this face-to-face, I'm living on the Love Boat with practically everyone else.

[ He means the community housing, of course. ]

So if you'd rather meet in a common area or something, I'm game.

[thelast]

All right then. Face-to-face works best for me. The balcony on your foor's nice, I'll be out there when you're ready.

No rush, Peter.

[She smiles and waves before her video goes blank.]