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Yo, Ellie! I'm out of town for a while, but... y'know, maybe I just wanna talk. Deal with it.

What kinda music did you know back home? I gotta catch you up.

Oh, hey Marceline!

[ Oh man getting phone calls is the coolest thing. ]

Uhhhh, I mean, I have an old mix tape that I used to listen to all the time. I don't know the name of the artists or anything, but a lot of the stuff I listened to was from...

I think like the 1970s up to the 1980s?

All right, uh... that's something. [she's willing to work with this.]

Gimme some beats, lyrics, whatever. I figure we start you out with some similar stuff and spread from there, know what I'm sayin'?

[ She laughs. ]

Seriously? So you want me to like. Sing the last song I've listened to or something?

You got any better ideas? [she laughs right back.] But y'know - let's try this. The Clash. They're '70s-'80s punk with crazy influences from all over. I've been thinking about them a lot lately, and if you don't like this album, there's probably no hope for you anyway.

[and she texts an ustube link as she's talking.]

Oh yeah, I can just show you the shit I've listened to, huh? Sorry, I'm still getting used to this... Internet thing.

[ She opens the video, listening to it a bit and starts to dance along. ]

Oh man, awesome! I've never heard of these guys before!

Uh.

Here's what I've been listening to lately. My friend, Peter, had me in the mood for this again so I got all their tapes.

[ It takes her a moment, but she eventually links her to this ]

I listened to these guys whenever I found their stuff back where I'm from.

[still getting used to it. it's a minor thing, but it's another reminder that no matter how fresh the wasteland was in her memory, experiences like ellie's hadn't been hers in a long, long time.

hopefully ellie'd be able to get some more distance, too.]

Oh, wait - Quill? He's all right. [she makes a little face as the music starts. noooot so much her scene, but whatever]

I'm not a big Jackson girl. Thriller's cool, but... [vague shrugging and a noncommittal sound.]

Oh man, Quill's awesome. Funny as shit, too.

[ She frowns when Marceline isn't impressed by her music choice. ]

Well...

I mean, neither am I. But it's super catchy and you sort of learn to fall in love with whatever you can get your hands on back there.

[ She's making excuses. ]

Relax, you don't gotta explain your Motown love affair to me. I'm not gonna judge.

[ellie.]

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