Author: Elf Asato
Written: July 3, 2005
Summary: Yuuto flips channels.
Disclaimer: I neither own X (CLAMP) nor Coffee and TV (Blur).
Notes: Written because I felt like writing something, and when Coffee and TV came on my playlist, a vague idea popped into my head.
By Elf Asato
On channel seven there's a special on soybean planting, but then on channel ten there's a talkshow with guests with horrible, self-inflicted experiences.
Flip.
Fourteen has a romantic comedy about two clumsy but fated people who meet while walking their dogs. The movie's halfway over.
Flip.
An action-packed martial arts film on channel seventeen, but he's seen this before. It's not very good, so continue on down the line.
Flip.
Political "discussion" and talking heads on twenty. They don't say anything relevant or worthwhile, though.
Flip.
On channel twenty-seven there's a popular gameshow for those with quick hands and brains, but since the questions are hard this round it's no fun to play along. Channel twenty-eight has an anime on, though, which he feels more comfortable watching. But it turns out to be sophomoric and boring.
Flip.
His favorite soap opera is on channel thirty-one, but it's been ages since he's watched so he feels lost.
Flip.
A steamy, seductive drama about cheating salarymen is about to come on channel thirty-four, but it's too long and he doesn't have the time to watch.
Flip.
Someone he knows is on the local channel thirty-nine, interviewing a popular novelist. It only reminds him that he doesn't have much time.
Flip.
He skips a few dozen channels to watch baseball on sixty-three. It's the bottom of the ninth, though, so after a few minutes of easy entertainment, the game's over.
Flip.
Sixty-eight has a strange, indie film about a psychotic young woman and her incestuous relationship with her father, but it's too convulted and confusing to follow.
Flip.
The history of coffee and caffeine is on channel seventy-four, and the narrator has a sexy, alluring voice, but it's a little too sexy and alluring...
Flip.
He's about to watch lesbian porn on channel eighty-two, but by that time he's run out of free time.
Yuuto turns off the television and gets his coat, leaving the apartment to meet with this woman he had a date with once, Kanoe. She has a proposition for him.