Groovy Tunes, Saturday

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Alright, if Jono was going to do some kind of terrible-idea Valentine's party at the Boards, he was going to need... something. Something in particular, in fact, that he didn't usually keep at the Boards. Fortunately, he just so happened to carry that something at his other job.

Which was why Jono was spending most of his Groovy Tunes shift today asking he little blue guys what their opinions on particular karaoke machines happened to be. He'd check them out himself, but... well...

Look, he had no mouth. Clearly the karaoke machine wasn't for him.

It just meant that he was going to spend the rest of the day listening to the blue guys singing 'la la la' into various microphones. Sigh.

[OOC: Open!]

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That...was a sight that Peter couldn't exactly pass by.

He stuck his head in the door, watched for a moment, then gave Jono a bemused look. "What - do I want to know?"

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//Mate, there are times when I wished even I didn't know,// Jono replied, glancing up at Peter and nodding as he peered in. //Mostly it's just that I needed an assist checking the quality of this equipment, since, ah...//

Look, he had a bit of a technical difficulty in that area.

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"Oh. Right." Peter shifted awkwardly, then decided if Jono wasn't going to be cagey about it, neither would he.

"What's the equipment for? And...who are they?" They were very blue.

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//The equipment's for a Valentine's party at the Boards,// Jono replied, shrugging. //Friend of mine is putting me up to it. Bad karaoke, drunken charades, all sorts of stupidity. With any luck it'll at the very least remind people that the business still exist--//

He was cut off by another exuberant chorus of 'La la la la la!'

//... Right. And these are my tenants. Sort of. They live under the shelving. I'm charging them rent.//

Thanks for that, Fandom.

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"Oh. That sounds like fun. The party, I mean. I'm...not sure about little blue people living in your shelving. They don't seem dangerous, though."

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//They're fairly harmless,// Jono agreed. //Every now and again they get little blue berries into everything, but for the most part they're tolerable tenants.//

If the weird, shirtless, Lilliputian equivalent of himself, back in the day.

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And much less ripped.

And without fish lips.

"They seem to appreciate singing, at least."

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//I imagine that's why they wound up here in the first place,// Jono mused. //I picked the karaoke system I want to use about three hours ago. Now I really don't have the heart to stop them.//

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Peter laughed. "They do seem to be having fun. I don't recognize what they're singing, but I don't know if that's because it's theirs or because I'm a couple decades behind in...well, everything."

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//I... I think it's theirs,// Jono offered. //I've been working in this shop for years, and I've never come across anything quite like it outside of the children's section.//

Which he'd only spent limited amounts of time in, admittedly, and had kind of been avoiding lately anyhow.

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"Does this place carry things from all the different dimension it has access to?" Peter asked curiously. "Or is it just one Earth?"

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//From as many as possible,// Jono replied. //I figure it'd be a waste not to, especially since we've had so many students through the school come in and make requests, or go on and become successful musicians in their own rights in whatever reality they head off to. I mean, hell, even my world has musicians that they don't have in this one. Ever hear of Dazzler?//

Dazzler hadn't been the first musician to jump to mind, admittedly. But if he had to choose between Alison and Sugar, it really wasn't any contest.

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"I don't think so," Peter said. "But I haven't really caught up on things between 1999 and now."

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//She was big in the eighties,// Jono said wryly. //If you didn't hear of her, trust me, she doesn't exist in your reality. 'Big' is an understatement.//

And how.

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"Then no, I don't think we have her. Unless she goes by Madonna." Peter shrugged. "Have you got her music, then?"

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//That depends entirely on how you feel about disco,// Jono replied, shrugging his shoulders. //Of course I carry her music. Alison would never forgive me if I didn't.//

Yes, he was on a first-name basis with Dazzler, by virtue of them both being idiots with an occasional X.

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"Some of it was good, some of it was bad," Peter said. He shrugged. "The polyester felt awful."

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//Well, then if you have anything at home to play it on, I'll be happy to dig out some of her music for you,// Jono replied. //Unless these blokes do requests.//

He jerked a thumb in the direction of the little blue guys.

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Peter eyed the little blue guys. "I don't have a CD player or anything yet. Do you sell those, too?"

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//As a matter of fact,// Jono said, nodding toward a display near the counter, //I do. If it's musical, I've probably made some effort to bring something like it in. Do you want something simple to get you started, or a more involved setup?//

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"Simple would be good. Something small," Peter said. "I just need to be able to play music, not have a whole experience."

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//I might argue that music is an experience,// Jono teased. //Not in order to sell you something more expensive, just out of principle, really.//

Because music.

//But we can hook you up with a basic stereo. Plays CDs and radio. If you're feeling extra ambitious you can even plug an mp3 player into it. Though admittedly that's most things these days.//

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"If I had one, I suppose," Peter said. He shrugged.

There was one on his phone. He hadn't figured that out yet.

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And Jono wouldn't even think to ask.

Sigh.

//Well, sooner or later that's how it's all gonna be, and I'll be out of the CD business,// Jono replied, shrugging his shoulders. //Which isn't the end of the world, just so long as people still buy instruments and sound equipment, I suppose.//

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"MP3s are all electronic, right?" Peter had grasped that much. "Couldn't you just sell them instead?"

Hey, he was still getting the hang of the internet!