"Man, she just keeps talking doesn't, she?" I said.
"Yeah, I know. I was just looking to get outta the rain, you know, man?"
"Me too. I'm waiting for a concert and have nowhere to stay until it starts. I'm down for the weekend from Boston."
"Dude, no way! Which concert?"
"Moxy Früvous. They're from Ontario; kind of like a bunch of street performers."
"Aaw. Hey, man, did you ever see KISS?"
"Nope."

I was lucky to get more than one syllable out at time for the next forty-five minues.

"Not even when you were in Boston? Aw, man, you're missing out. I love KISS, you know? I loved 'em even as a kid. Of course, I couldn't go to the concerts or nothin', but I always wanted to, you know? Guess what I dressed up as for Halloween when I was 8, huh? Gene Simmons. Here, take a look at the picture. That's me when I was 8 for Halloween. I was Gene Simmons. Man, he was so cool. I loved them when I was a kid, but I couldn't ever go to the shows, you know? You know, being 8 and all that. But I go see them now, man.

...

"I wanted to try to see them up in, uh, up in Boston, but I couldn't get tickets. I saw them when they were touring without their make-up on, but, you know, it just wasn't as good, you know? Yeah, you know. Without their make-up they just weren't the same. Not that the make-up made the band, but it made the band in a different way, right? Right, so if you look, just look at the ticket sales for their first concert back in make-up. Sold out in thirty minutes down here. That just shows you how much people like seeing them in the make-up. It makes the band.

...

"I mean, this leather jacket I have on is cool and all, but I really want the one from the KISS Fan Club catalog. The moment I saw it, I thought this was for me. It was all black, except for where they painted on the back, and on the back they painted they painted this great big 'KISS Army', just like the original leather jackets back in the day, man. Back in the day, when they wore all their make-up.

...

"Now this cassette, it's a new release and all, see that? It's see-through. Old tapes weren't like that. They were all vanilla and solid and you couldn't see through them. I mean, they both have the same music on them and all that, but this one is newer. The old one, if I had that, I could sell that for some serious money. One day, this tape'll be worth some money, too, but then the older tapes will be worth more. Not that this tape isn't worth anything, but it's, you know, see through. Oh, but I love this tape. You know this first song here? You must've heard it. It goes duh-nuh duh duh duh. Yeah, you know it, you know you know it.

...

"So this evil park manager makes these robots to go out and take over the town, robbing and beating up people and stuff. And they look just like KISS, right? So the cops come to arrest KISS and they're all like, "No, man, we were out playing the concert; didn't you see us?" and all that, you know? So by the end of the movie, KISS is out there fighting the robots. And you know their make-up-- it gives them magical powers. Paul Stanley, his star shoots out at people. And Ace Frehley, it's his hands, man. His hands.

..."

"Whoa, hey, I better get to that concert if I'm going to make it on time. Take care."
I still had about thirty minutes until doors were supposed to open, and it was still raining.