StarCat/CatStar
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
StarCat/CatStar is dedicated to the memory of David Bowie, that cosmic subversive who’s returned at last to his ethereal home.
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THE SUBURB (SATIRE)<br />
By Kevin Maus<br />
[Voice Over]<br />
In major cities throughout the US, due to rapid gentrification of inner-city areas<br />
[People shrieking with laughter, dragging a blue, plastic bag of dog shit on a leash<br />
along the ground, while other people sitting at outdoor tables at a cafe shriek with<br />
laughter into their phones.]<br />
...the criminal and poor element...<br />
[A youth in a red baseball cap turned backwards, and in a silk letterman jacket,<br />
spray paints the word “Hood” onto a concrete brick wall while gunshoots and<br />
women's screams can be heard in the background. Nearby, an old hobo with<br />
wrung out lips and a rat-tail necklace smokes a crackpipe and shakes. Police<br />
lights play in super-imposed transparence over the scene.]<br />
are forced out to the suburbs.<br />
[Title]<br />
“The Suburbs”, in bleeding Warrior's-like spraypaint before an indistinct<br />
cityscape, the sun setting beyond like an inferno.<br />
A synth buzz reaches a crescendo: “There goes the neighborhood”.<br />
[Lead]<br />
A deer is eating grass on the sprawling lawn of a suburban manor, when a<br />
gangster in a pink silk turban, a tooth-pick in his gold teeth, leans out the window<br />
of an Escalade and lets fly with an MP5, obliterating the creature, that whiplashes