Tom GellieBig Picture Skiing Pty Ltd · Coach/Director

Silver Star Mens Day 2009

15 Mar 2009 · 4 min

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This excerpt captures a fragment of a live performance recorded at the Silver Star Mens Day 2009 event. Multiple speakers (A, B, D, E) deliver short, overlapping lines that blend cryptic poetic imagery, references to drugs and danger, personal appeals, and pop‑culture nods. The dialogue includes mentions of "potions," "motors on fire," an apology to Charlie Murphy, repeated calls to a character named Valerie, and a brief lament about legal and financial troubles. The piece appears to be a staged musical or spoken‑word segment that juxtaposes intense, tension‑filled language with a conversational, almost improvisational tone.

Potions, these drugs are just an hour away. Come on in. Electronic, apolophonic, prostitute, the motors on fire, messiah for the animals.
Oh, come on, we got our backs to the wall. Get on and watch out, say you're trying to kill us.
All right, it's rolling. I'm sorry, Charlie Murphy, I was having too much fun.
your ginger hair and the way your life drags.
I want you to come on over and stop making a fool out of me.
Why don't you come on over, Valerie?
Valerie?
Valerie? Valerie?
Did you have to go to jail, put your house on an open sale, did you get a good lawyer?
Hope you didn't catch a 10, hope you found the right man who'll fix it for you. Are you shopping anywhere? Change the color of your hair? Are you busy? And did you have to pay that fine? You was dodging all the time, are you used to Well, sometimes I go out by myself and I look across the border and I think about all the things that's what I do. And in my head I paint a picture. But since I come home, well, my body's been a mess and I miss your