The Boy Who Heard Music - Chapter 18 - Thumbnail
"Birthday Treat"
Ray is a little more lucid on his 90th birthday in 2035 and, while wandering around the old neighborhood in his pajamas, sets himself to the task of tying up loose ends.
Turns out Leila's remark about the efficacy of Gabriel's sperm referred to her finding out about his love child with Angie. Leila leaves Gabriel and turns to Josh, getting into S&M games with him in a parallel with Rastus and Ruth Streeting's similar activities in Psychoderelict. And, as if to make this even more of a repeat of the earlier work, Gabriel becomes involved with the Glass fan Victoria who sends him a naughty e-mail and seeks his help in becoming a star. Gabriel ends up, not in a scandal, but having a solo hit with "Only One Hymie," a song about his son who died in a car accident along with Angie who was doing cocaine Gabriel had given her at the time. Gabriel's grief is used as the public reason why Gabriel refuses to participate in the big Glass reunion concert in New York. Privately, Gabriel has put the kibosh on the concert by denying Leila and John access to the songs he co-wrote.
Meanwhile in 2035, Ray says he is a purely voluntary resident in the asylum and that he and Damoo built the first Vox-Box at the studio and it was hooked up to the early Internet.
Ray is a little more lucid on his 90th birthday in 2035 and, while wandering around the old neighborhood in his pajamas, sets himself to the task of tying up loose ends.
Turns out Leila's remark about the efficacy of Gabriel's sperm referred to her finding out about his love child with Angie. Leila leaves Gabriel and turns to Josh, getting into S&M games with him in a parallel with Rastus and Ruth Streeting's similar activities in Psychoderelict. And, as if to make this even more of a repeat of the earlier work, Gabriel becomes involved with the Glass fan Victoria who sends him a naughty e-mail and seeks his help in becoming a star. Gabriel ends up, not in a scandal, but having a solo hit with "Only One Hymie," a song about his son who died in a car accident along with Angie who was doing cocaine Gabriel had given her at the time. Gabriel's grief is used as the public reason why Gabriel refuses to participate in the big Glass reunion concert in New York. Privately, Gabriel has put the kibosh on the concert by denying Leila and John access to the songs he co-wrote.
Meanwhile in 2035, Ray says he is a purely voluntary resident in the asylum and that he and Damoo built the first Vox-Box at the studio and it was hooked up to the early Internet.
posted by Brian in Atlanta at 1/15/2006 02:33:00 PM
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