- There... There was a death in the Family.
- Who died?
- Our Akita
- Evita.
- You make fun. Yet I'm the one attempting to do some good
Or do you really want a neighborhood
where people piss on your stoop every night?
Bohemia Bohemia's fallacy in your head
This is Calcutta
Bohemia is Death
- Dearly beloved
we gather here to say our goodbyes
Here she lies
No one knew her worth
The late, great daughter of Mother Earth
On these nights when we celebrate the birth
In that little town of Bethlehem
we raise our galss you bet your ass
to....
La vie Boheme.
- To days of inspiration
playin' hooky makin' somethin' out of nothin'
the need to express to communicate
to going against the grain going insane
going mad.
To loving tension no pension to more than one dimension
to starving for attention, Hating convention, hating pretension
not to mention, of course
hating dear old Mom and Dad.
To riding your bike midday past the three-piece suits
to fruits to no absolutes
to absolut to choice
to the Village Voice
to any passing fad
To being an us for once instead of a them
La vie Boheme.
- mm...
- Hey, mister. She's my sister.
- So that's five miso soup, four seaweed salad,
three soy-burger dinner, two tofu-dog platter,
and one pasta with meatless balls
- Ew....
- It tastes the same.
- If you close your eyes.
- And 13 orders of firies, is that it here?
- Wine and beer!
- To hadcrafted beers made in local breweries
to yoga to yogurt
to rice and beans and cheese
to leather to dildos
to curry vindaloo to huevos rancheros
and Maya Angelou
- Emotion, Devotion to causing a commotion
creation vacation
- Mucho masturbation
- compassion to fashion
to passion when it's new
- to Sontag
- to Sondheim
- to anything taboo
- Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage. Lenny Bruce. Langston Hughes.
- to the stage.
- to Uta
- to Buddha
Pablo Neruda too
why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
to blow off Auntie Em
La vie boheme
- Sisters?
- We're close.
- Brothers!
- Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo sapines,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee-wee Herman
German wine, turpentine
Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
to apathy to entropy
to empathy Ecstasy
Vaclav Havel the Sex Pistols
8BC to no shame
never playin' the fame game
- to marijuana
- to sodomy
it's between god and me
to S & M
-Waiter, waiter, waiter, waiter!
- La vie boheme
- In honor of the death of bohemia
and impromptu salon will commence immediately following dinner.
Maureen Johnson, back from her spectacular
one-night engagement at the 11th street lot
will perform tribal chants backwards
through her vocoder, accompanying herself on the electric cello.
Which she ain't never studied.
- And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary
about his inability to hold an erection on the High Holy Days.
- And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubblewrap
will perform her famous lawn-chair handcuff dance
to the sounds of iced tea bing stirred.
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song....
..... that doesn't remind us of "Musetta's Walts."
- Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris
while accompanying herself on the 10-gallon plastic pickle tub.
- And Collins will recount his exploits as anarchist
including his successsful reprogramming
of the MIT retro-reality equipment to self-destruct
as it broadcasts the words:
Actual reality. ACT UP. Fight AIDS.
- Excuse me did I do somethin' wrong?
I get invited, then ignored all night long
- I've been trying'
I'm not lyin'
No one's perfect I've got baggage
- Life's too short, bebe time is flyin'
I'm lookin' for baggage that goes with mine
- I should tell you
- I've got baggage too
- Should tell you-- Baggage
- Baggage
- Wine and beer!