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Driven Up The Wall

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John?

“Shh.”

This is a terrible way to hide from Kim Jong-Un.

“I panicked.”

Oh, no. Don’t panic.

“I know that now, but I’m twenty stories up on the Trump Tower.”

Yeah, was that a political statement?

“Well, I’m running from a foreign dictator, so it’s kinda political.”

Sure. Did anything in particular set this ill-advised plan in motion?

“Again: did not think this through. In retrospect, a poor choice.”

Did you just have all that equipment?

“What, you don’t have a Human Fly guy?”

You bring this on yourself.

Um.

Your phone is supposed to be ringing.

“It’s not.”

Have it on vibrate?

“I never set my phone to vibrate; all my ring tones are me soloing.”

Sounds right.

Huh. Weird.

EXT – ONLY KOREA, DAY

“How you get us lost?”

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“So sorry, Your Handsomeness!”

“Are basketball players still alive?”

“Almost most, Your Relevance.

“Josh Meyer tweet back at me?”

“Not yet, Your Virtuosity.”

“This isn’t even a map!”

“Heaven conspires against its blessed child, Your Blessed Childishness.”

“Shut up, Only Korean Jenkins.”

“Yes, sir.”

There Can Be Only Only

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John?

“It’s Johanna now.”

Goddammit.

“I’m exploring my feminine side. And I’m not wearing a watch! I am without a net, man.”

John–

“Johanna.”

–are you hiding from Kim Jong-Un?

“Maybe.”

Just break up with him.

“How do you break up with the ruler of Only Korea?”

North Korea.

“Don’t fucking do that! Take your little running gags, and your dialogue tics, and your idiosyncratic punctuation and jam it up your unreliable ass. That guy is weird, and the fucking NSA is watching me now, and I’m not in Phish and I’m having a rough week, so I don’t need your bullshit right now.”

Wow.

“Yeah.”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“FUCK YOU. Stop giving him my GODDAMNED NUMBER!”

CELL PHONE NOISE

You should answer that.

“Fuck you.”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Wait…that’s not my phone.”

CELL PHONE NOISE

Holy shit, It’s mine.

“You should answer that.”

Hold on.

Weir here.

“Why you answer phone like Bob? You no Bob.”

How the fuck are you calling me?

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“Only Korea been real and semi-fictional for years. Father invented semi-fictionality.”

That actually sounds true, but you can’t be in the real world.

“There two Only Koreas now. Real one and us. Guess what happen now?”

Please don’t go to war with the real Only Korea.

“Already start. Look at Navy. So strong.”

Why are they on the beach?

“Yacht sank.”

I have to go. Get back in the bullshit universe.

“Fuck you, Hot Dog Dick.”

Dammit.

Palm, Sunday

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“You gotta help me out, Irving.”

“How did you even meet Kim Jong-Un in the first place?”

“It’s a long story. I got that guy bugging me, I got girl trouble, I got skank trouble, and I haven’t soloed in sixteen hours.”

“You were playing your guitar when I picked you up.”

“I mean in front of paying crowds.”

“Sure.”

“It doesn’t count, otherwise.”

“Right. Back to Kim Jong-Un. You can’t hang out with him. You have built up a lot of goodwill; this would not help.”

“I’m not hanging out with him! He’s obsessed with me. He hacked my Instagram account.”

“How’d he do that?”

“He’s got hackers! He’s from Only Korea.”

“Only Korea?”

“North Korea. I meant North Korea.”

“John, none of this is what I want to hear. You are on the cusp of a mid-career resurgence. This solo album hits, and you’re huge again. You want to be People‘s Sexiest Man Alive 2017?”

“I want that so badly, Irving.”

“Well, nightclubbing with dictators is not the way to get it.”

“I’ve tried to get rid of him. I don’t think he’s used to people telling him ‘no.’ He kinda just doesn’t process it.”

“Hmm, yeah. Don Henley does that.”

“The fat bastard’s insinuated himself, Irving. He insinuated, and now he’s all up in there. He’s having summit meetings with President Katy Perry; that is, when she’s not letting fading limey movie stars thwop their uncut dongs on her back. And Taylor Swift is now in charge of the Only Korean, DAMMIT, North Korean air force.”

“Are you taking drugs, John?”

“Irving.”

“Bad drugs, I mean. Are you taking bad drugs, John?”

“Irving.”

“Did the Grateful Dead do this to you?”

“Let’s go to a toy story and buy a doll, so you can show me on it where the Grateful Dead touched you.”

“I feel like you’re making fun of me.”

“A little bit. You need to concentrate, though. Very important to follow the plan and not get distracted.”

“Absolutely. Am I in Phish yet?”

“I said ‘don’t get distracted’ literally two seconds ago.”

“Irving, I made it perfectly clear that I wanted to be in Phish.”

“I ran up a trial balloon.”

“And?”

“They named the balloon ‘John,’ and said it couldn’t join the band.”

“Ow.”

“John, the end of this year is huge for you. Big press. Big shows. Album. We increase your fanbase and concurrent asking price so that next summer, when you play with your little hippie buddies, you play even bigger venues. You can’t be chasing around every jam band you see.”

“Yeah, I guess.”

“Are you thinking about asking Kim Jong-Un to have Trey assassinated?”

“Wow. How did you know that so fast?”

“I’m quite literally in charge of the American music industry. I’m a smart guy. Don’t have Trey assassinated, please.”

“Aw.”

A Deal Goes Down

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“SKAAAAAAANK!”

“Billy.”

“SKANK! SKANK! SKANK!”

“Billy, come on.”

“You in, kid? You gonna come sail the seven seas of skank with Captain Billy?”

“Seriously?”

“I never joke about skank.”

“I don’t even understand what the offer is.”

“You be the Bobby now. Bobby can’t be the Bobby any more. Hey, y’know what? Bobby’s a Billy now, just like me! Ha! Time turns us all to Billys! HAAAHAHHAHHAHHAHHAHHA!”

“You high or insane?”

“Yes.”

“How would I be the Bobby?”

“We leave you out. Like bait. The skank gets a whiff of ya, and comes running. You take the best skank and the rest of us pick off the stragglers.”

“Oh, God, that’s really what happened.”

“For years. And we were happy. Think of all the bands that didn’t have a Bobby. The Airplane didn’t have a Bobby, and their skank was sub-prime. Yeah, it’s settled: you’re the Bobby now. How much time do you spend on your hair?”

“A lot.”

“Wonderful. You’ll learn the ropes quick.”

“One condition.”

“I’m not paying you.”

“Something else.”

“What?”

“I want you punch Orlando Bloom in the dick.”

“Done. One question.”

“Is it ‘Who is Orlando Bloom?'”

“Yes.”

“I’ll show you.”

“Deal.”

“Great. Billy?”

“Yeah?”

“What’s my name?”

“No clue.”

“Okay.”

We’ve All Been There, Josh

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You don’t have to tell me, brother.

“Right?”

Chicks.

“Chicks, man.”

Turn your back for a second–

“–and they got some limey’s wet dong rubbing on their shoulder blades!”

Unbelievable.

“When was the last good movie Naked Nigel was in?”

Never. I just looked. He has quite literally never been in a movie that was good.

“What about Troy?”

Troy was entertaining, but not good.

“He was Legolas.”

And now he’s bottomless.

“Nice.”

Yeah, thanks.

“You didn’t like Lord of the Rings?”

I have hated that intellectual property in every format it’s been presented to me: book, cartoon, movie adaptation, role-playing game. Fuck hobbits and their furry feet and stupid wizards and dumb magic jewelry and shortcuts through mountains and volcano monsters and long walks and double fuck Sean Bean. Fuck all of it.

“Okay.”

You know he played Romeo in Romeo and Juliet?

“Makes sense.”

In 2014.

“Makes much less sense. He’s my age. Do you think I’m aging better than him?”

Please, John. Concentrate.

“I’m starting a podcast about my nightly facial-care regimen, if you’d like to be on it.”

No.

“That fucking guy. Slapping his schwanz against my Katydoodle’s back.”

Don’t call her that.

“Y’know what?”

I think I know where you’re going with this.

“Not great dong.”

Nope.

“Average at best.”

You’re being generous.

“And foreign. So, you know.”

Right. Just au naturel down there.

“God’s mistake.”

Cleanliness issue, as well.

“Smeg.”

Smeg.

“Smeg.

Smeg.

“John, who are you talking to?”

“No one, Katydoodle.”

“Don’t call me that.”

A New Record

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Your hair looks great.

“Big-Dicked Sheila isĀ  miracle worker.”

You got a little bit of a thousand-yard stare, though.

“Y’know, in most of the world, it’s a 914-meter stare.”

Sure. So tell me about the album.

You mean Blue Mountain, the long-awaited collection of cowboy tunes out on September 30 and available for pre-order at Amazon?

I didn’t say “plug the album,” I said to tell me about it.

“Sure, yeah. It’s 12 songs. Baker’s dozen.”

Baker’s dozen is 13, Bob.

“Ginger Baker’s dozen.”

Ah.

“And, you know: lots of roping and riding. Song called Ki-Yi Bossie.”

That is a very good title for a cowboy song.

“It’s the cowboyest thing we could think of.”

We?

“Me, Barlow, the guys from The National, the fellow who played the Ferengi on Deep Space Nine.”

The usual suspects.

“Uh-huh. Great bunch of guys. And, you know: Barlow’s a little shaky, so I fired off a pistol or two indoors to make him feel at home.”

Don’t get him started on politics.

“Why do you think I was firing the pistol?”

Good call. And there’s gonna be a short tour, too. Playing some real swanky joints.

“Ryman. Grand Ol’ Opry. Which is an impressive place. Three words in the name, and two are misspelled. That might be a record.”

Could be.

CELL PHONE NOISE

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Huh. Hold on, would ya? Gotta take this.”

Okee dokee.

“Weir here.”

“HOW COULD SHE DO THIS TO ME?”

“New phone. Who dis?”

“It’s John, Bob.”

“I don’t know any–”

“Josh Meyers.”

“–John.. Oh, hey, Josh. Great tour. Big-Dicked Sheila says hi.”

“That’s what I’m calling about, Bobby! Dicks! One specific one!”

“Sheila’s?”

“No.”

“It’s big.”

“Bob.”

“Not an ironic nickname.”

“Bob.”

“Like a huge dude named ‘Tiny.’ Not like that at all.”

“I did a line off it once, but it wasn’t gay because it was a lady’s dick.”

“No, Bob. Orlando Bloom.”

“The cherry blossoms?”

“Not ‘bloom’ as in ‘flower.’ And not ‘Orlando’ as in…the movie star.”

“He’s got a penis?”

“He does.”

“Good for him.”

“Even if you understand what I’m talking about, you’re going to pretend not to, right?”

“Little trick I picked up having daughters.”

“I’ll call Irving Azoff.

“Tell him Big-Dicked Sheila says ‘hi.'”

Top Un

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John?

“Welcome.”

What the fuck is this?

“It’s called Drinks With John Mayer. DVD I’m putting out.”

I don’t understand.

“It’s shot from the POV of a hot lady on a couch getting shitfaced off Bordeaux and watching my old concert tapes.”

I still don’t understand.

“It’s immersive technology.”

You put a cameraman in a dress and strapped a Go-Pro to his head in a hotel room while you played your YouTube videos.

“You’re a very dismissive person, y’know that? I’m kinda tired of it, honestly. Awful sick of your shit.”

Wow. Huh. Hey, John?

“What?”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Oh, FUCK YOU!”

Brought this on yourself, Meyers.

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Is it who I think it is?”

No, no. It’s a surprise. You’ll be happy. I promise.

CELL PHONE NOISE.

“Dammit.”

“This is John Mayer.”

“You can be my wingman anytime, Hot Dog Dick!”

kim-jong-un-plane
“YOU SAID IT WASN’T HIM!”

Yeah. I lied.

“Why would you do that?”

I found it amusing.

“Hey, Kim Jong-Un.”

“Call me Maverick.”

“I will not.”

“You can be Goose.”

“I most certainly am not gonna be fucking Goose.”

“You Goose.”

“No Goose.”

“You Goose!”

“No Goose!”

“Is my plane. You not be Goose, I take plane home to Only Korea. Father invent plane.”

“Please! Please take all your shoddy weapons and vehicles back to your hellhole and leave me alone.”

“I love when we banter.”

“Not banter! I shouldn’t be talking to you at all, not even semi-fictionally. I think my phone is tapped now.”

“It is. What this button do?”

Shwoooooom

KaBLAAAAAAAAAAM

“Is missile button.”

“Yeah, I got that.”

“Have to go. Call you back. We hit Phish on New Year?”

“Stop calling me.”

“Jong-Un, Hot Dog Dick hang dai.”

“That’s Cantonese, jackass.”

“Got to go. I send assassin to kill Katy Perry. Talk later.”

“Wait, what?”

Walking Blues, Talking Cure

jm rando convo

“Thanks for coming to see me.”

“My pleasure, John. My pleasure. How’s it going?”

“Honestly? Rough! Rough. It’s weird. Weird and rough.”

“Oh, no.”

“Katy thinks she’s the president, and I was doing some research in the Dead’s law library last night–”

“The Dead has a law library?”

“–and I think she may actually be president. Something about an Electoral Graduate School. So that’s great: Katy Perry has the nuclear football.”

“What? Really?”

“I have NO idea where the Earthroamer is. Or if it’s still in this dimension, really. God only knows what Soup did to the toilets.”

“Who?”

“Jeff and Oteil haven’t been in a storyline in forever.”

“A what now?”

“Plus I got–”

CELL PHONE NOISE

CELL PHONE NOISE

“Goddammit. I gotta take this.”

“Hot Dog Dick!”

kim jong un submarine

“Stop calling me.”

“Road trip!”

“No.”

“Get out of my dreams, get into my submarine.”

“That thing looks like a death trap.”

“You can see me?”

“Don’t worry about it. Stop calling me. I cannot be friends with you, Kim Jong-Un.”

“We not friends.”

“Thank you.”

“We best friends.”

“Fuck you.”

“Okay, I come get you in best submarine. Father invent submarine.”

“Stay away from me.”

“I text when close. Leaving Only Korea now.”

“NO!”

DIAL TONE NOISE EVEN THOUGH PHONES DO NOT DO THAT ANY MORE

“You see what I’m talking about?”

“Wow.”

“Weird, right?”

“Downright peculiar.”

“So, what do you think I should do, doctor?”

“I’m not a doctor, John.”

“You’re not the shrink I sent for?”

“No.”

“You’re a rando?”

“That’s a bit insulting.”

“I implied no value judgment.”

“Still.”

“Sooo…how much did you hear?”

“All of it, I suppose.”

“Uh-huh.”

“I won’t tell anyone, John.”

“I know. I know you won’t. Hey, do you want to meet Billy?”

“Wow, sure!”

“Follow me, buddy.”

Kim Jong-Un: Friendship Is Magic

CELL PHONE NOISE

CELL PHONE NOISE

“This is John Mayer. Please don’t be, like, half-a-dozen people.”

“Please hold for the president.”

“What? Really? The what? Yeah, I’ll hold. Of course.”

“Hello, John. I’m the president now.”

“You are not the president, Katydoodle.”

“That’s Madam Katydoodle, John. And it’s customary to stand when the president enters the room.”

“We’re on the phone.”

“But I’m in a room.”

“Where are exactly?”

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“I’m polling my constituents, John. And showing them my power. Like Jeff Chimenti, but richer.”

“You’re very impressive.”

“I wanted to sing Don’t Cry for Me, Argentina. A lot of people explained how hilariously inappropriate that would have been, so I didn’t do it. But I still did Evita Arms.”

“You snuck it in.”

“I am the hottest president, John.”

“Who was your competition?”

“I would bang Teddy Roosevelt.”

“Everybody would bang Teddy Roosevelt, but the guy wasn’t attractive.”

“I appointed Doctor Gary to the CDC, John.”

“That’s a bad idea.”

“The first thing he did was get a map of all the reservoirs in the country, and then he went in his office and locked the door.”

“I think none of this is actually happening, Katy.”

“President Perry.”

“I think Doctor Gary has once more fed you something that made you allergic to reality, and now you’re hallucinating wildly in a closet and bothering me.”

“Then why is he here, John?”

“He who?”

“I got a helicopter, hot dog dick!”

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“Oh, for fuck’s sake.”

“I fuck you up, Tablecloth Face. Only Korea number one, Grateful Dead number ten.”

“Please stop being racist.”

“Suck my heavenly balls, Meyers! I got nuke and Taylor Swift yanky my cranky.”

“I’m begging you to stop being racist. Why are you Lego?”

“Everybody else Lego. Only Korea invent Lego.”

“Sure. But, uh, that storyline’s over. Sir Paul sobered up and drove away.”

“When this happen?”

“Last night.”

“Huh. I stop reading. Beg for money. Make me cringe.”

“It got rough, yeah.”

“No more Lego?”

“No.”

“Huh.”

“I look like asshole.”

“You don’t! Kimmy buddy–”

“Do not call that.”

“–you look fine. I mean, you look a lot more like your father than you, but whatever.”

“Kim Jong-Il great man. Invent miniature golf.”

“Okay, sure.”

“I go change. We no talk about this or nuke drop on all hot dog dicks.”

“Great. Lips are sealed.”

“You are now best friend of Kim Jong-Un, Josh Meyer.”

“I have to pass.”

“Cannot pass. Is honor.”

“Respectfully.”

“No respectfully. You best friend. We road trip.”

“NO!”

“Good. We bro now. I change into checkered jumpsuit.”

“Oh, please, God: don’t let anyone Photoshop a checkered jumpsuit on you.”

“Okay, okay. Love you, Hot Dog Dick.”

“Please don’t capitalize that.”

“I signed a number of treaties, John.”

“I’m hanging up the phone and getting drunk.”

Worlds Collide, And Coexist, Like Checkers On A Board

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Is this your thing now?

“I identify as an Italian restaurant.”

That’s not a gender.

“It is on Tumblr.”

What would Garcia think?

“He would think it was as funny as I’m intending it to be.”

Dammit.

“Gotcha there a little, huh?”

Awful smug for someone who’s about to be yelled at by Taylor Swift.

“What?”

CELL PHONE NOISE

“MotherFUCKER!”

CELL PHONE NOISE

You should pick that up. It’s going to keep ringing.

“Why do I feel like Daffy Duck?”

Because I stole this bit from a Daffy Duck cartoon.

“Hey, Taylor.”

“Shut the FUCK UP, you ASSHOLE FULL OF AIDS.”

“Whatcha doing?”

“You are as FUCKING USELESS as QUEEN ELIZABETH’S COCK, you SWEATSOCK FULL OF VOMIT. You do NOTHING for me, FUCKING NOTHING, so I took care of things BECAUSE I’M THE ONLY ONE AROUND HERE WITH A PAIR OF FUCKING BALLS!”

“You took care of things? What does that mean?”

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“I’m dating Kim Jong-Un now.”

“Look what I got, cocksucka! Number one white girl is queen of Only Korea now!

“I truly didn’t sign up for this. I just wanted to solo for hippies.”

“Tell your fat little whore Katy that I GOT NUKES NOW, TOO!”

“I’m not going to tell her that.”

“What the fuck are you wearing? Is this your thing now?”

“Taylor Swift, Kim Jong-Un: hang dai!”

“It’s really gotten too weird around here.”

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