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[a1enzo]

It was difficult sneaking the guitar into the utility tunnels without attracting comment, especially since the most convenient entrance is via the restroom off the student lounge, but Enzo managed it. He's on a sofa now, trying out some of the sheet music Tommy gave him for Christmas. Happily, he's gotten a lot of practice recently, and his voice is decent enough, so no one's ears are actually likely to bleed.

^♫From early days of infancy,
Through trembling years of youth,
Long murky middle age
And final hours long in the tooth...^♫

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[jokerswildwest.livejournal.com]

Well, now this is interesting. The kid is green.

The music, he recognizes. He ain't half bad either.

[a1enzo]

Well, he ain't half bad for a ten-year-old trying to sight-read Jethro Tull on a guitar that's a bit too big for him.

^♫He is the hundred... cruft... hundred names of terror,
Creature you love the least...^♫

[jokerswildwest.livejournal.com]

Alex isn't going to interrupt so he sits nearby to listen. The kid's better than he is, at least, but the guitar has never been his thing.

[a1enzo]

It comes of being made of mathematics. You pick up how it should go pretty easily. It's the execution that's the tricky bit.

^♫Picture his name before you
And exorcise... -cise... Aargh! And exorcise the beast! What's 'exorcise', anyway?"

[jokerswildwest.livejournal.com]

"Usually it means to get rid of something. Usually something bad. Like a demon, at least where I'm from."

[a1enzo]

Enzo glances up. "Oh! That makes sense. Thanks!"

[jokerswildwest.livejournal.com]

"You're welcome. You're pretty good, and I didn't expect you to be playing something I knew." He smiles and offers a nod of his head. "I'm Alex."

[a1enzo]

"I'm Enzo." He looks down at the music. "I don't know it. Tommy gave me a bunch of User music. A lot of it doesn't make sense for my world. This one's okay, but..." He shuffles Something's On The Move out of the sheaf of music and passes it to Alex for inspection. "We don't have weather in cyberspace."

[jokerswildwest.livejournal.com]

"Cyberspace? Like...computer related cyberspace?"

This would explain the fact that the kid was green.

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

"Hey, Enzo." Pause. "I didn't know you played..." Another pause. "What is that?"

Did I mention that Bonzo isn't musically inclined?

[a1enzo]

"Hi, Bonzo! Don't they have guitars in your world? Tommy gave it to me back on my birthday."

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

Blink. "So that's what they look like these days..."

[a1enzo]

"Sure. They look like this in cyberspace, too. Are they different where you come from?"

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

Nod. "Yeah..." Pause. "Then again, I've only seen a few very old ones. Sheltered childhood and all."

[a1enzo]

"What'd they look like?"

[mandercommander.livejournal.com]

A pad of paper and a pencil appear, and Bonzo draws a rough sketch of a classical guitar. Basically, a very simple design. "They're not even electronic."

[a1enzo]

"Oooooh, yeah. Bob got an analog guitar here. I mean, what's it, acoustic. We don't have 'em much in cyberspace, but sometimes you see 'em in Games."

[singintheoven.livejournal.com]

Like a glitter-painted moth to a flame, is Hedwig to rock music.

So she is there, cup of coffee in hand, listening.

[a1enzo]

^♫He is the hundred... tab it!... hundred names of terror...^♫

Oh, for hands as large as Matrix's! Enzo's main problem here is stretching his fingers far enough. Matrix's biggest worry would be gripping the neck too hard and breaking it.

[singintheoven.livejournal.com]

"You're doing very well," she says quietly. "Don't worry about getting the right notes--the spirit is the important thing. That's what makes music."

[a1enzo]

Enzo looks up. "Yeah, but it'd sound better if I got 'em right."

[singintheoven.livejournal.com]

She chuckles, shaking her head. "You've never heard the Stooges? You can play all the wrong notes and nobody'll even notice, if you've got the right attitude. Not that you're doing that--you're doing very well--but it helps to let go and not worry."

[a1enzo]

"Are they a human group? I don't know a lot of User music. Dani's played a bunch of Dumpty Humpty for me, but that's mostly it."

[singintheoven.livejournal.com]

"Can you get recordings of music in here? If you can, you should, sometime. I'd offer you mine, but they're all back in New York."

She takes a sip of coffee. "All the groups I know are human, except maybe David Bowie, but he's in a class by himself, isn't he?"

[a1enzo]

"Prob'ly? You can get almost anything else. What do you play?"

Enzo shan't comment on David Bowie, since he's no clue who the man is. Of course, if you asked him about Ziggy Start-bit...