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Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'Oh--' Ari flinched slightly as Violet put her hands on his shoulder. He looked away and shook his head, stretching slightly. 'I know, I know... it took me like three months to record the first one... and then two for the second.. and then three for this last one. Maybe it'll be a fucking banger again since I have such a fucking short deadline for this one...'

Ari sighed. 'And everyone just fucking cancelled all the cool duets and collaborations and shit I had planned because of the world tour and the blanket...' The blanket of course referring to the incident at the 1990 Grammy Award ceremony where he got into a fistfight because someone tried to steal his blanket and he got kicked out and still won Record of the Year, Album of the Year, among two other awards...

Speaking of, where was his blanket?... Fuck! He left it in Georgia. Now he knows why he feels so uneasy. Great. He groans slightly at the realization.

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'Yeah, um, it's really weird what songs get popular from someone and what songs, um... rot and die. I think Overdrive is okay, it's um... really good at fifteen of course, but... yeah...'

Ari sighed. 'I guess I'm not helping myself by performing old material. I still need to fucking record and get the thing done by September and I'm barely even fucking done... and with the fucking tour...'

His stomach makes a weird noise. Every second he's rotting in here is taking away from meeting his fans and talking with his staff and just sleeping...

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

Ari swallowed. 'Um. Sunday Haze, Citrus, On A Boat, um.. Seventeen Candles, I really like the chorus on that, um, I'm in Love With You, um, Nasty--or Naz-ty, I don't know how to pronounce that and I think my record was weird and I couldn't make it out--it was really scratchy, um--'

He paused and then continued, 'Livewire, Crazy Pretender, Edge of.. yeah.' Ari sighed. 'I mean Overdrive is fine and all but I think on the record you just put out there's a lot stronger material. And besides I bet you can't name any song that I put out besides "Nagasaki", "The Coffin", "Castle of Broken Dreams", "Army of Me", and "Live For Me (Die For Me)" anyways, um...'

Ari continues talking mostly to himself about his music, 'Um, well maybe you can, but Live For Me was like the fucking worst song on King, like-- fucking "Purple Skies" was way better and of course there was "(Oh, My) King" which was okay I guess but I could have done a lot better on it...' Ari groans and begins talking faster, on the verge of breaking down at this point, 'A-and... and I feel like a piece of utter shit because there were only seven songs on King a-and two of them were remixes and and and I'm performing a lot of my old material when I really should have recorded more songs for i-it and...'

'God...'

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

quick give 10 song names

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'It's... yeah, I... yeah.' Ari thought that it might seem a bit ingenuine but he genuinly agreed. Ari's mildly comforted to hear another artist that he's certain that he listened to at some point that thought similar to he did. He genuinely enjoyed that particular song, as well as British Invaders, but he figured he shouldn't talk about that right now.

So she was blushing, that was weird. Ari began to bite his nails as he thought. Maybe talk about music with her. 'Um. I really like your music, um, all of it. I like punk rock, and, um, alternative or indie rock and stuff...'

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

Ari shakes his head. Ari doesn't know why she's covering her face with the hat. Ari sighs and responds earnestly, 'No, you still... you, um, you still are. This is really awkward. I don't even know what's going on anymore. I hate doing concerts so much. I hate touring, and I don't know why you're, I..'

'Ech...'

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'No..?'

Ari is very confused. She isn't -- atleast she says -- and now she's blushing? His brain can't handle this. He's so confused. He really wants to ask a lot of questions but at the same time he doesn't want to come across as rude or weird or anything. Ari pauses for a second while his brain works, and then timidly asks 'But you're blushing..? I... wh...'

He emits a series of speech-like sounds as he tries to process what was going on. Then he just sighs and mumbles, 'I'm really confused...'

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'Oh... I don't know if, um, I'm an artist per se but whatever, I guess..' Ari said. Of course he was critizing himself. He had no self esteem. Never had one to begin with. He needs to work on that but fuck his shoulders hurt so much. 'I don't even make good music anyways.' Ari shrugged.

'Why, um.. do you keep staring at me...?' Ari timidly asked Violet.

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'Mm..' Ari sighed and looked away. For a minute or two he didn't say anything as he tried again to take a nap or something.

But maybe he should get up and stop rotting and meet his fans and talk with his staff and get yelled at by people and then go.. wherever the fuck was next.

Ari sat back up. He turned and glanced at Violet as she applied the eyeliner.

'Uh... why here..?' Ari asked. He probably came across as confrontational or something of the sort, but it was a genuine question. He figures she'd get upset or mad or yell at him, because that usually happened when Ari asked a genuine question that seemed confrontational, or obvious, and so on.

Overdrive - the Deranged (and very weird) Love Between a Punk Rocker and a Dubstep Artist (erikh and tealrootssss)

'Oh!'

Ari took the bottle, looking at it for a second to see if it was an actual advil bottle or something else. Wow!.. Ari looked back at Violet for a second, seeming genuinly surprised. He scoffed. 'Oh--wow, um... thanks. You're a damn life saver... of course they have advil for me here, fucking...'

Ari forced the bottle open -- it had a childproof top but he was never able to figure out how to open those. Once the bottle was open, he scooped out a handful of the little tablets and shoved them down his throat. At least 12 tablets Ari has just swallowed in one sitting. He definetly would be overdosing on this soon.

Ari groans and wipes his mouth, before groaning again and leaning his head back. He doesn't even have any allergy medicine or zoloft, so he can't create his concoctions. Dissapointing.

'God...' Ari says to himself, holding his head. It'd take a half hour to work anyways. But then he'd feel great! Just make it through the next half hour and you'll be fine.