I just got out of a two-hour conference call that made me want to tear my hair out. I need something to lighten my mood. So...
Last week, as a result of playing Kingdom of Loathing,
Boyfriend and I discovered this website:
Roy Orbison in Clingfilm . That's right. It's a guy who writes stories about Roy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm. We only read one (
"Roy in Clingfilm in Space") because
Boyfriend was rather traumatized, but...wow. It's, like, the most bizarre fetishizing I've read, as there's nothing even vaguely sexual, the author just...enjoys the thought of wrapping Roy Orbison in clingfilm. Observe:
I retrieve some cling-film from the Clingfilm Stowage Compartment where several hundred of the translucent rolls of joy glint softly in the cabin lights.
Roy Orbison unbuckles from his seat and floats out into the middle of the cabin, his black clothing billowing about him in the zero gravity like the folds of some black cloth manta ray. 'Commence,' he says.
I won't give away the surprise twist ending, but let's just say, if you're intrigued by the thought of wrapping Roy Orbison in clingfilm, it will definitely delight and satiate you. When you read the stories, and you
will read the stories, picture Dieter from
Sprockets as the author, reading it aloud to you. That makes it all the more delectable.
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE EXIST IN THIS WORLD? IDGI.
Freud/Jung? Oh, man. I'm not sure I could take psychiatrist slash.
Why Roy, why clingfilm?
I cannot tell! I have had this fantasy since my earliest years. I tried to answer this question in more detail in a previous interview but without satisfaction. To be short, the urge to bring Roy Orbison and Clingfilm together seems to me the most natural thing in the world, and I am surprised to find that other people find that surprising. But I cannot explain it. Why does the butterfly sing when it beholds the flower? Who can say??
LOL WHUT???
I think the weird syntax might be because he's German and English is his second language (I think?). SO WEIRD.
I wonder what he's like IRL? *ponders*
ETA: so I just read a bunch of interviews, and I found myself going, "Aww, he's LONELY." LOL *facepalm* Apparently when his family found out about his clingfilm obsession, his wife divorced him and he was written off from the will. He also says his only friend is his pet turtle Jetta. OH and that he works as a banker but has gotten fired before for daydreaming about clingfilm.
...he also calls fanfic "Obsession Art." Which is awesome. HA!
Edited at 2008-10-31 10:09 am (UTC)