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Groovy Tunes, Wednesday

Alice had a strange sort of wanderlust as she opened Groovy Tunes today. The mood where you took what you needed, and hoped it would last, and kept it close to you as you dashed out the doorway. Something was calling for her. It was exactly this sort of mood that had led her to Wonderland, a long time ago, and Looking-Glass Land shortly after. Perhaps she needed to go adventuring, once more.

Groovy Tunes was open, and Alice was humming to herself distractedly.

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The empty-handed painter from your streets

Agnes walked into the store and looked around. "...Is Chad not here?" she asked.

"Not today, he isn't," Alice said cheerfully. "He has a dreadful case of the Wednesdays. It's a condition where you hire strange girls to open the shop for you other days so you needn't stay yourself. Might I help you?"

"Oh..." Agnes turned pink from embarrassment. "I, uh, just wanted to apologize to him for missing the music club yesterday. I'll have to find him some other time, then."

She looked around the store, and came to a quick decision. "And I'd like to buy a CD player and some music," she added, firmly. She had money, now, after all, and hadn't spent it on anything much that wasn't from the Magic Box. "What would you recommend?" she asked. "I'm afraid I still don't know much about your world."

"I could leave him a note," Alice offered. "Somewhere that he'll find it, once he comes in. I believe he works Fridays, if you would rather come then."

She stepped out from behind the cash register. "It's not my world, either, exactly," she explained as she led Agnes over to the music selections. "Or rather, it is, but I'm well over a century out of place, so all of this is new to me, as well. I've been using this job rather shamelessly to explore music, so I know a moderate amount of everything up to J, and very little thereafter. Let's start at the beginning. What sorts of things do you like?"

"I.. don't know," Agnes answered. "I don't really know what's out there. I... I think I'm just about done with folk music and opera. I'd like something..."

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Agnes smiled weakly. "...More assertive."

"Assertive," Alice said, with a very mischievous grin, "we can most certainly do. All the very loud, rude things that young ladies certainly shouldn't listen to, and most definitely shouldn't sing along to? That variety of assertive?"

She was already taking out CDs.

Agnes returned Alice's grin. "EXACTLY," she agreed. "But perhaps not too far overboard. Sex, drugs, and Music With Rocks In, but not mayhem and murder, you know?"

"I don't know if any of this music has rocks in it," Alice said apologetically. "It says rock, on the heading, but I'm not sure why rocks are necessary. You can let me know if any of them have rocks or not."

She held out a considerable stack of CDs -- Garbage, Jack Off Jill, Staind, Tool, Alice in Chains, Bif Naked, Paramore, and other ~~moddable~~ selections -- and gestured to one of the listening areas. "Put one in, slip the headphones on, see if it's at all something you'd be interested in. We can refine the search from there. I highly recommend female vocalists, I must say. It lets you screech along more effectively, in that particularly mood."

"No, it's... metaphorical, I think?" Agnes answered. "Not ACTUAL rocks?" She looked at the CDs thoughtfully. "I've a considerable range," she commented. "I could sing along to anything. But... I think women probably have more interesting things to say. ESPECIALLY since most musicians are men."

She selected, at random, Jack Off Jill, and after a few moments of fumbling with the player, got it started. "Oh, my."

Alice couldn't help lingering nearby, especially once she'd seen what CD Agnes was starting with.

"I don't think she's been a proper young lady in years," she said delightedly. "I bought that one for cross Tuesdays and days when it won't quite rain."

"But she doesn't sound like an immature brat, either," Agnes agreed. "That's sort of what I'm trying to avoid."

Who are you calling an immature brat?

"I think I like it," she declared.

Then she gave Alice an odd look. "Is there a reason Tuesdays are especially cross?" she asked.

"If you like that, be sure to check the Garbage, next," Alice grinned. "No reason, except that Tuesdays are disobedient as a rule. One must keep a close watch on one's Tuesdays, you know. Let me see what else I can turn up."

With that, she had disappeared into the rows, hunting down more selections.

"Sure, you know those... Tuesdays," Agnes replied, slowly. "Always jumping out at you when you least expect it."

She leaned over to look in the wastebasket as Alice left, before realizing that one of the BANDS was apparently named Garbage. Blushing furiously, she hoped the other girl hadn't seen that. Some fumbling later, Jack Off Jill was out of the player and in the "to keep" pile, and Garbage was in. She... hadn't realized music could be so angry and so freeing all at once.

Tuesdays lurked behind Mondays. Everyone suspected Mondays. That was how Tuesday preferred it.

Alice returned a few minutes later, carrying another stack of CDs. "More," she said. "If this grows tiresome, you can tell me to stop. But good, proper yelling music is something no girl should be without."

Especially not one who'd been told many times to be a lady. That made a girl need a good yell.

"Oh, I'm quite good at yelling," Agnes assured her. "I've just never been able to do it to music before." She smiled. "I'm Agnes, by the way. Agnes Nitt, witch."

"Alice Liddell, occasional queen," she said, dropping a rather proper curtsy. "I believe we've had a class or two together. You have a rather smashing hat."

Agnes bowed majestically. "Why thank you, Your Majesty," she replied with a smile. "Are you perhaps not queen on Tuesdays?"

Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets

The sky, too, is folding under you

And it's all over now, Baby Blue

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