Story for performance #250
webcast from Sydney at 07:36PM, 25 Feb 06
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the sound of militiamen setting up their own checkpoints in defiance of the state.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will not believe your ears.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, no prayers will be spoken.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will be doing the right thing.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will be able to listen to winds over the desert in Morocco.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will see angels.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the mid-morning quiet of a Baghdad street.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will begin to find ways to escape this life.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, all your memories will be erased and replaced with new ones.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will find yourself standing on a chair in the middle of a busy road in a silent protest to defend your way of life.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, the gates of hell will slowly open.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will disappear from view.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will start running in circles wildly chasing your own tail.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, George will call for calm…
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, the thought of men will anger you.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will experience Happy Ever After, or whatever.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, noone should move.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, accusations will fly.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the sound of cars exploding all around you to the point of exhaustion.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you may begin to say to yourself: this is not a toy.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, colours will seem to fade.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will alter politics by turning John Howard into a strange worm-like creature that can be squashed and stepped on.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will realise that you can’t always get what you want.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will be all through with promises, promises…
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will become the resurrection.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will be over the rainbow.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear her say: Stand and deliver, kind sir, for if you do not, I will shoot you dead.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will begin to live under fear until nothing else remains.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the sound of cockroaches at your feet, on your skin, in your ears.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the words: you can’t have manslaughter without laughter.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will begin to struggle against the forces of urban civilisation, of technology, when it is exploited for profit during a time of economic depression.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will scream Blue Murder.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will see a blinding ray of light.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will be dead in 13 days.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, it will slowly dawn on you that we don’t need another hero.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will discover the beauty and pointlessness of Irony.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, someone will offer you Arak to drink out of seven ornate liqueur glasses.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, there will be many clues but also many holes.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, men and women will all be thrown together by fate, then left to fight for their own salvation.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will end up spending a sleepless night lying in the dirt.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you hear them speak in hushed tones as if it were they who were flirting with death.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, it will piss you off that even your last stand is going to be remembered as a joke.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will see her lips move for 1001 nights.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, you will hear the turning of pages of Saudi Arabian fashion magazines.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, the click of guns of soldiers in the background will keep you in line.
If you put on the headphones now and listen very carefully, sirens will blare in the distance.