Kind of how I imagined “Gamma World” to be. Except, a laser-eyed security robot should cruise through every 45 minutes, you can hear it coming by the soft whirr of some important gears grinding, and its semi-sentient software has driven it into a terrifying kind of psychotic loneliness and paranoia. It fears visitors, while desperately longing for someone to talk to.
Also, the potted plants are mutants who will eat you.
That mall is not abandoned, but merely closed for the night.
I submit this for your internet pedantry consideration of the day.
Music played in an empty shopping mall seems to be a sub-genre on YouTube.
The next time I find the PA system of a place I am inspecting, I will make this happen.
My favorite from that is the assistant modeling the “headdress” made out of toilet seat and sanitation band!
Here’s the antidote:
First Toto, then Men At Work?
This is making a dark empty place in my pre-teen early 80’s soul.
(GO OLD TOWNE MALL with awesome book store, churro stand with weird animatronics, rides, and the Time-Out arcade!)
Why are you folks trying to hurt us so?
Am… Am I dead?
No joke, this song is so sticky it actually got into my head BEFORE I saw this post on Boing Boing.
About an hour before the song Africa appeared in my mind and I was singing it out loud as I set out on a dog walk.
Came home, and saw this post.
Weird.
Someone even has a Patreon for taking requests. I don’t know. The acoustics seem … off … for a large space like that. The right filter in Audacity and stock pictures of empty malls, and you’re ready to go.
Heavens, I was very young when I last went in there (>40 years ago). I don’t even remember any actual stores there (although I’m sure they existed), just bumper cars and sword-swallowers.
Am I imagining (or remembering a different place), or was there a building or structure that looked like a rocket ship in the parking lot? Also remembering (again, maybe somewhere else in Torrance) a liquor store shaped like a boot, complete with a rotating spur.
and you are in hell.
Someone has rewatched the original Dawn of the Dead recently!
Hmmmmmm… /me opens audacity
That’s how I always felt when I got too near an Abercrombie and Fitch.
As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti
Are you thinking the discovery center down in the OC? They’ve got a rocket (and a shuttle replica).
As for the liquor store with a boot, not that I remember, but I didn’t frequent but one liquor store (and that was for the candy and video games)… Prince market liquor… Good times.
Toto’s Africa? More like Toto’s Shithole! - Donald Trump
Seriously though, that’s a cool-looking toilet. It looks like the head of an angry mech, like it just needs ears and it could be in Patlabor or something.
I was thinking the same - this is a construct.
