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The bucket-seater theater is his car stuck in traffic, presumably on the way to pay his ticket, and he refers to it as a theater because of what’s going on outside: the animated lives of other people that are constantly on display when you live in a city. (See the lyrics to “6B Panorama”:Aesop enjoys people-watching.)

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Breakdancers (breakers) belong on Breakdance Beach, where they can realize their full potential. A breaker at Breakdance Beach will become the Babe Ruth of breakdancing (Babe Ruth is the Great Bambino).

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Memo
To: All Breakdancers
From: Rob Sonic

Please, breakdancers, keep your moves fresh, innovative, and physically demanding at all times. Impress me.

Best regards,
Rob

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Aesop playing a security officer at a daycare. Refers to the fact that breakdancers typically peak young.

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Refers to a scratch effect, popular in DJing, where the music is brought to a sudden stop. This signals a change-up for breakdancers.

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More breakdance fashion. A Gucci frock is a flowing designer dress worn by models and fashionistas–here a young astronomy nerd (breakdancer) is wearing it.

Imagine one of these

on one of these

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A maître d' is a headwaiter. An eggplant Sammy is a vegetarian equivalent of a hamburger, where an eggplant is fried and put on a bun, usually with cheese.

This could be a metaphor of Rob wondering if he, ordering meat (the real deal) is associated with those who order vegetarian substitutes (phonies).

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On the boardwalk ordering a Philly.

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A&P is a chain of grocery stores throughout the Northeast. The acronym stands for The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. The protagonist here is standing outside the A&P selling heroin and ecstasy.

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Sage here is talking to those young men and women who don’t know what they yet believe because they haven’t had the chance to explore all opinions or have their childhood beliefs challenged. Some of these kids haven’t even finished puberty.

“You’re 22 and your frontal lobe is incomplete. Argue all you will, but it’s a scientific fact. And part of having a frontal lobe still in development is the sense that you have a right to scorn everything around you, but all you really are is a biological cliché. Your brain has a few more years to go, so for the time being, you’re this judgment robot and everything you think and feel is the product of incomplete cortical hookups and hormone-driven whims. At this moment, what you consider to be your personality is an unwanted and boring obstacle in the way of finding out what you need to know.”
–Douglas Coupland, Generation A

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