Industry Schmindustry!
Background:So, I worked "in the industry". I could talk about it
in detail, but in deference to the people who still work at Studio Ironcat
I will not. However, on July 15, 1999 Kuni Kimura tendered his resignation
and no longer works for Studio Ironcat L.L.C. so it's open season on him!
I joke, but Kuni was the primary reason I quit after three months.
Recently I found an e-mail I wrote right before I resigned. It was
for a few friends and we called it Exquisite Corpse Ironcat (if you don't
know what an Exquisite Corpse is you should bone up on your
Dada).
I think you've all heard me talk about the fantastical English grammar
Kuni is capable of hatching when he has pulled an all-nighter. By the
combined suggestions of Mark, and my friend Drew, I have decided to
transmogrify one of the raw translations of Mr. Kimura ( The text
comes from his first translation of Gun Crisis by Masaomi Kanzaki
-Ed.) into a Dadaist play. Keep in mind Kuni had pulled an
all-nighter . I intend this not for ridicule, but for entertainment...it
entertains me.
I have chopped his script into direct lines from the translation. I
have then given these short lines to two
speakers, Man One and Man Two ( think: Waiting for Godot)
and thus have turned a very, very, very raw translation into .... DADA
Theater!
Kathryn Ruth Robarts Presents: Exquisite Corpse
Ironcat!
Man One: Dead body found just now is very brand-new American
dead!And this
is killed stabbing on medulla...Killing is professional level, but taking
care of the dead is amateur!
Man Two: He is not listed on the weapon smugglers, but he should be
on the ordinary list. Isn't the suspects impatient for something, I
guess?
One: Chief!!
Two:1-3!! Investigate the dead and the owner of the room to find
the
client! Do you hear me, you yellow mouth, 1-3!!
One: Y-yes, sir!
Two:Poor girl!
One: report regularly!!
Two: Commander, he'll go to kill his client!! Permission to go
back her up!
One: Permission granted!
(Time passes, One follows Two, who in turn does the
same…They circle the stage, barely steping on eachother's heels)
Two: Now, the mission is over... will I charge or stay, I must make
decision...
One: Did you see the POW on TV?
Two: He is my only son...
One: I become a POW in Viet Num... it was living hell...
Two: If my friend, who is the president of this company did not
help me out, I would still be in Viet Num.
One: Since they love their country, we America should not have make
our hands stained with another war not while the scar by Viet Num war is
heal!!
Two: You use force to kill and destroy others!!
One: No matter what when you use physical force, it is terrorism!
Eat my shit, you killer militants!!
Two: Man has words!!
One: We have no resident domicile, on the record we're dead. Dead
can do anything in the forest, right?!
The two turn the audience and proclaim: I not I as self.
pronounced
"E" what means stomach in Japanese.
The End
Thank you all! Do not get me in trouble with my dear boss.
-Kayt
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