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September 23, 2004
in ribbons
this morning on my way to work i stopped by my neighbours’ and weaved a little something to honour pogo’s birthday. all my fondest wishes!
I have stretched ropes from steeple to steeple ; garlands from window to window ; golden chains from star to star, and I dance.
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September 14, 2004
“this pesky tape recorder tried to sleep in the light”
I knew that if I would just indulge myself with a stay-home-sick day for this little cold that’s been bothering me lately, mysteries would be explained and revelations would abound! I just knew it! Why, just this morning I stumbled across the lyrics transcription of Disco Inferno’s “A Little Something”… Need I mention that they are one of my most favourite bands ever, and I have been attempting to decipher its lyrics since times immemorial, for it holds an urgent secret - a song to keep the demons at bay during difficult nights, a song to make sure you never wake up from 25 years in an office job!
When I was young
I was taught a little song
I only ever sing it
when things are going horribly wrong
It goes : “Take a trip to the beach
to see the master plan, a baby hyena and an olive branch
stick it all in a fruit blender
With some mottos and some lovers and a vintage Fender”
I feel so satisfied now… And now who knows what this day still holds for me.
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September 06, 2004
surely the world is full of ghosts
When I can’t fall asleep my mind always play the same trick, a rooten habit from I don’t remember when that has since become a reflex – when I want to find sleep, I always picture a book that I’m closing. Some people advised me to picture a grain of rice, getting smaller and smaller, then backwards. A wiser friend told me to not go to sleep unless I am tired. Yet this isn’t always practical, nor what I want really.
Another thing I used to do is make imaginary music videos. Or imagine myself leading educational sequences, documenting random little things. This similar technique was mainly done not at bedtime, but in moments of boredom, mainly in the bus, or waiting for someone or something to start. Anyway, it might just be described as dreaming awake.
I have no doubt that within my lifetime, brain monitoring technology will be advanced enough to map out in images the brain activity during sleep, and perhaps even to graphically recreate the memories of an awake subject. I find this much more exciting than any promises of weekend trips to the moon, or personal jetpacks.
Well, I don’t know why I went on this tangent..! My holiday weekend was quite relaxing and warm, and though I didn’t spent Labour Day in New York, I went to see another great show by Electrelane, finished reading a book, and digitalized old family Super-8 movies to make music videos in iMovie. They are a pain to edit on my old G3, but I keep thinking of new ones I want to make or songs to use. I made small web versions of my first two, here and here if anyone wants to look, but they don’t seem to work very well unless you have Quicktime 6, and even then. But if it does work, please stay tuned. Next on iMovie theatre, a dynamic bioepic of Chomi the cat!
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