Sleep Robot

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Member Since: 4/18/2005
Band Members: Mostly my name is Henry. Mostly.We ordered the sleep robot over the internet. Originally, they were a batch of 500 exercise robots that had a feature malfunction, doing exactly the opposite of what they were supposed to do. Ours was no. 234. We got it out of the box, and powered it up. Nothing happened. At least, it didn't move. Its eyes stayed closed, its arms didn't flail wildly, its body remained perfectly still. After a few minutes, the lights on its body started to flicker dimly, and we thought perhaps it was starting to power up; but the lights just kept flickering, so low that you could believe it was just reflected and not of its own power. Some of us got bored - wondered off and made cups of tea, read the newspaper or listened to the radio. Some of us stayed and listened to the humming and whirring and the occasional beep that quietly eminated from its solid metal frame. The cups of tea went cold, the newspapers became yellow and out of date, the radio turned to static. But the sleep robot remained where it was, impervious to anything. We silently gathered around it, caught up in our private imaginings of what was going on in its metal mind. We imagined dreams of silver and gold, flying robots with wings of plastic, robot friends meeting and running and playing under a lamplight sun. We slept around it, the clicks and buzzes soothing us to sleep. When we went out, it was safe in the knowledge that the sleep robot would be there to keep the furniture company. We returned always to find it there, constant and still. We dropped off one by one, got married, had children, died. The sleep robot remained where it was, wrapped up in its silent somnic state.
Influences: windy & carl stars of the lid double leopards black dice sonic youth the quiet hum of computers during dreams
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