Chapter 9: Viva La Vie Boheme
*The next day Mimi's house*
"Damn Mimi you have a lot of cool clothing." Maureen said as she dug through Mimi's closet.
"Thanks Maureen. I try." Mimi laughed as Maureen pulled out tight leather pants to go with her black dragon shirt.
"You look great in that outfit Mimi." Joanne said about Mimi's blue mini dress with black pantyhose and tan boots with a royal blue sweatshirt. (As worn in La vie boheme in the movie)
"Thanks Jo. You look great also. All in tan." Mimi said with a little bit of laughter in her voice.
"Hey now look…" Joanne started to say but then looked at her outfit then thought otherwise.
"She got you there Jo." Angel said with laughter in her voice.
"Yes she did." Joanne laughed.
"You girls almost done?" They heard Mimi's dad call up to them.
"We're coming papa." Mimi yelled back and then they all exited Mimi's old room and went down stairs.
*Richard Grey's mansion dinner time*
"You all 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; A fallacy in your head; This is Calcutta; Bohemia is dead." Benny said to everyone at the out cast or what Benny and Allison called the outcast table which was all the cousins that weren't as perfect like Allison was in the eyes of their parents.
"MARK
Dearly beloved, we gather here to say
our goodbyes
COLLINS & ROGER
Dies Irae - Dies Illa
Kyrie Eleison
Yitgadal V' Yitkadash (etc.)
MARK
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 glass- You bet your ass to-
La Vie Boheme
ALL
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
MARK
To days of inspiration,
Playing hookey, making something
Out of nothing, 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-
ALL
La Vie Boheme
La Vie Boheme
MIMI'S MOTHER
AHHEMM
MAUREEN
Hey Mister- She's my sister
WAITER
So that's five miso soup,
Four seaweed salad
Three soy burger dinner,
Two tofu dog platter
And one pasta with meatless balls
ROGER
Eww
COLLINS
It tastes the same
MIMI
If you close your eyes
WAITER
And thirteen orders of fries
Is that it here?
ALL
Wine and beer!
MIMI & ANGEL
To hand-crafted 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
MAUREEN & COLLINS
Emotion, devotion, to causing a commotion,
Creation, Vacation
MARK
Mucho masturbation
MAUREEN & COLLINS
Compassion, to fashion, to passion
When it's new
COLLINS
To Sontag
ANGEL
To Sondheim
FOUR PEOPLE
To anything taboo
COLLINS & ROGER
Ginsberg, Dylan, Cunningham and Cage
COLLINS
Lenny Bruce
ROGER
Langston Hughes
MAUREEN
To the stage!
PERSON #1
To Uta
PERSON #2
To Buddha
PERSON #3
Pablo Neruda, too
MARK & MIMI
Why Dorothy and Toto went over the rainbow
To blow off Auntie Em
ALL
La Vie Boheme
MIMI'S MOTHER
Sisters?
MAUREEN
We're close
ANGEL, COLLINS, MAUREEN, MARK & MR GREY
Brothers!
MARK, ANGEL, MIMI & 3 OTHERS
Bisexuals, trisexuals, Homo Sapiens,
Carcinogens, hallucinogens, men,
Pee Wee Herman
German wine, turpentine, Gertrude Stein
Antonioni, Bertolucci, Kurosawa
Carmina Burana
ALL
To apathy, to entropy, to empathy, ecstasy
Vaclav Havel- The Sex Pistols, 8BC
To no shame- Never playing the fame game
COLLINS
To marijuana
ALL
To sodomy
It's between God and me
To S & M
ALL
La Vie Boheme
COLLINS
In honor of the death of Bohemia an impromtu salon will commence immediately following dinner... Maureen Johnson, will sing Native American tribal chants backwards through her vocoder, while accompanying herself on the electric cello- Which she has never
studied.
ROGER
And Mark Cohen will preview his new documentary about his inability to hold an erection on high holy days.
MARK
And Mimi Marquez, clad only in bubble wrap, will perform her famous lawn chair-handcuff dance to the sounds of iced tea being
stirred.
MARK
And Roger will attempt to write a bittersweet, evocative song
(Roger picks up a guiter and plays)
MARK
That doesn't remind us of 'Musetta's
Waltz'
COLLINS
Angel Dumott Schunard will model the latest fall fashions from Paris while accompanying herself on the 10-gallon plastic pickle tub.
ANGEL
And Collins will recount his exploits
as an Anarchist- Including the tale of
his successful reprogramming of the
MIT virtual reality equipment to self-destruct as it broadcasts the words:
ALL
'Actual Reality - Act Up - Fight AIDS!'" (Just like the movie)
"Mimi come with me." Roger said as he dragged Mimi outside.
"You ok Roger?" Mimi asked as they got outside.
"ROGER
I should tell you I'm disaster
I forget how to begin it
MIMI
Let's just make this part go faster
I have yet - to be in it
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell I blew the candle out
Just to get back in
ROGER
I'd forgotten how to smile
Until your candle burned my skin
MIMI
I should tell you
ROGER
I should tell you
MIMI
I should tell you
BOTH
I should tell
Well, here we go
Now we -
MIMI
Oh no
ROGER
I know - this something is
Here goes -
MIMI
Here goes
ROGER
Guess so
It's starting to
-Who knows?
MIMI
Who knows
BOTH
Who knows where
Who goes there
Who knows
Here goes
Trusting desire - starting to learn
Walking through fire without a burn
Clinging - a shoulder, a leap begins
Stinging and older, asleep on pins
So here we go
Now we -
ROGER
Oh no
MIMI
I know
ROGER
Oh no
BOTH
Who knows where - who goes there
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes
Here goes - here goes"
"Lets go back inside." Roger said as he kissed Mimi passionately on the lips.
When they got inside everyone was cheering as Mimi and Roger started kissing again.
"Mimi!" Mimi's mother yelled with furry.
"ALL
Yeah!
(Pandemonium erupts in the house.)
To dance!
MIMI
No way to make a living, masochism, pain, perfection
Muscle spasms, chiropractors, short careers, eating disorders!
ALL
Film!
MARK
Adventure, tedium, no family, boring locations,
Dark rooms, perfect faces, egos, money, Hollywood and sleaze!
ALL
Music!
ANGEL
Food of love, emotion, mathematics, isolation,
Rhythm, feeling, power, harmony, and heavy competition!
ALL
Anarchy!
COLLINS & MAUREEN
Revolution, justice, screaming for solutions,
Forcing changes, risk, and danger
Making noise and making pleas!
ALL
To faggots, lezzies, dykes, cross dressers too
MAUREEN
To me
MARK
To me
COLLINS & ANGEL
To me
ALL
To you, and you and you, you and you
To people living with, living with, living with
Not dying from disease
Let he among us without sin
Be the first to condemn
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
La vie Boheme
MARK
Anyone out of the mainstream
Is anyone in the mainstream?
Anyone alive-with a sex drive
OTHERS
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
La vie boheme
MARK
Tear down the wall
Aren't we all?
The opposite of war isn't peace...
It's creation!
ALL
La vie Boheme
Viva la vie Boheme!"