Midnight Pals: Filmic Torment

Sapphire Lazuli: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, if you would, i call this the tale of the king in yellow
HP Lovecraft: oh! this is my favorite!
Lazuli: ah but
Lazuli: this is the tale of the king in yellow film adaptation
Lazuli: as it were
Lazuli: but perhaps i'm getting ahead of myself

King: wow, a movie that makes you go insane to see it! now that's chilling!
John Carpenter: i did that one
Carpenter: you guys all hated it!
King: yeah but now we like it
Carpenter:
Carpenter: you motherfuckers

Lazuli: but what gives voice to a film?
Lazuli: what makes the film
Lazuli:
Lazuli:
King: Is that it? Where's the rest?
Lazuli: i was pausing
Lazuli: there's a pause in it
Lazuli: what makes the film
Lazuli:
Lazuli: speak to us?

Lazuli: what makes the film speak to us?
Lazuli: the stretching of transparent plastic strips straining tightly over projector reels
Lazuli: for only through the torture of plastic strips can our entertainment be
Lazuli: the whirring of reels belies the tormented agony of gelatin emulsion coating

Lazuli: but
Lazuli: would they squeal so deliciously if we shut off the projector?
Lazuli: would they vibrate with the same erotic potential of our viewing pleasure?
Lazuli: a delightfully decadent conundrum
Lazuli: is it not?

Lazuli: imagine
Lazuli: if you would
Lazuli: a woman trapped in a house
Barker: i can't imagine a woman trapped in a house
Lazuli: ah well then perhaps a metaphor would help illustrate the situation
Lazuli: would it not?

Lazuli: imagine
Lazuli: if you would
Lazuli: that you were a guitar pick
Barker: i cannot imagine that
Poe: clive
Poe: clive let her finish

Lazuli: imagine
Lazuli: if you would
Lazuli: that you were a guitar pick
Lazuli: that fell inside a guitar
Lazuli: the strings of the guitar
Lazuli: the veritable bars of a prison of eons

Lazuli: that guitar pick would be trapped
Lazuli: trapped inside that guitar
Lazuli: just like a woman trapped inside a house
Lazuli: would it not?
King: yeah that's right! i get it now!
Barker: what
King: yeah, she's trapped JUST like that guitar pick!
King: yeah i totally get it!