There is No Life In The Void
(FADEIN: Doc Silver standing in an arcade, the various bells and whistles of games going off in the background. Behind him Green Machine is playing DDR. "Dream A Dream" is his song of choice.)
DOC: Look, you can wave around a sword, and that's all pretty, but this begs the question...PYSCHO?! Your name is Pyscho...And yet you're a martial artist of the highest order...<Shakes head> Gimme a break...This whole relationship between me and you would have gone a lot smoother had you just gone with the name "James Smith" or something, anything that would not make a nth degree blackbelt seem like a fraud...
You're going to smack the smirk from my face? <Smiles> Many have, I'll bleed, I'll suffer, I'll be nearly maimed in that ring Pyscho, but I'll win, because I'm smarter then you, because deep down, I know who I am, I am not so conflicted as to give myself a name that has no reflection, no bearing, NOTHING to do with that which I am not...Why did you dub yourself Pyscho? In the hopes that the simple minded would fear a name like that? That your deadly skills in the martial arts wouldn't be enough to scare them, that your talents, your training, your skill wouldn't be enough to win? So you cover yourself in this myth that you are somehow in fact mentally unstable...It's sad really...Doc Silver...That's the name I go by, my first name is Patrick, or Pat...But nobody calls me that, I'm Doc...I changed the gimmick back when Garbage cut their first CD, I ditched the whole Ivy League pathologist and just said I got a 66 on a 'doctor's test' while in mexico and drunk off my ass...Just a slight justification to keep the "Doc" in the title...But I know who I am...As Rocky said, I can change, you can change, we call can change...Maybe it's not to late for ya...Maybe you can become something special, something real and not fantasy...
Rounders? <Shrugs> New part of the gimmick, not the only one, I'm what ya call...Multitalented...<Smiles> I mean, look where I am, an arcade, I've managed to somehow plug DDR into my promo...Because this arrow stomping game is fun, you should try it sometime...No playing cards, no over the top russian accent...What's next Pyscho, gonna tell me Garbage is overrated, that Shirley Manson can't really sing, that Vig was over rated for his producing of Nevermind? <Clutches heart> You cut me deep Shrek...Maybe next time you can tell me I never win my matches clean...That would be just spiffy...
Now you see, we crossed signals last time, you complained about some movie and I kinda put 2 and 2 together and well, I got it wrong, and I'm pretty sorry about that...Now next time like, chew an oreo, or hold up a pair of red aces...Something to lemme know where you're going with this...Just clue me in, it'll help us both out...Trust me...
And after this long winded promo goes on and on about ninja training, about the elite nature of your skills...The bull**** comes back...The Voices...Look, you can't have it both ways, you just CAN'T...I refuse to accept it...Just let it go...Get up to a podium and say "I'm not insane, I am sorry" and just break down sobbing like a <Bleep> I mean really...It's sad...The voices...There are NO Paranoid blackbelts in this world...It just DOESN'T HAPPEN...The amount of training, learning, self control, all that you need to become what you claim you are...CAN NOT BE DONE WITH A CRIPPLING MENTAL ILLNESS...You...You are a fraud, and a joke, and one that's about as unfunny as Carrot Top...
It's this simple...There's been no slow rolling here, no aces over Kings, no lyrics, nothing...I've been about as real as I can be...You want to talk fantasy, you want to talk dream world...That's you...And when we celebrate the life of Curt Henning, I'm gonna do it, by exposing you...As an IMPERFECT Fraud...Who'll be forced to walk the endless path of misery...Only Happy When It Rains...<FADEOUT>