( mystic crystal revelations and the mind's true liberation. )

[The sound of glasses clinking, people laughing, and Jailhouse Rock. Charles' voice comes over the device, sounding like he may have been doing some drinking and laughing himself.]

Elvis is in residence in the bar I'm living above.

He looks older in person.

[The music segues into Viva Las Vegas.]

Though I'm very much a fan of the new material.

[A man sits at a bar. He'd look like the typical sorrow-drowning patron if he weren't too young and still too smartly dressed for it. The device has been switched on deliberately; the screen catching him withdrawing his hand with a small twitch of satisfaction as it starts to record.]This would all be fascinating if it weren't so inconvenient. ( Read more... )