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Podcast 20: Start A Show & Tell Club
Out with the old, in with the new, right? That’s what I always say. I can’t tell if I am actually hung up on Saddam Hussein’s death or if it just seems somehow symbolically appropriate for what I - and all of us maybe - am going through…
This podcast isn’t about that though. It’s just a striking photo. This is actually kind of more on the bright side of things than this dire image would make it seem. It’s basically about the idea that each of us has things that are important to us. And that each of us has an experience of life which is different from everybody else’s and that’s just a normal natural thing. And we can celebrate it or we can use it to rip each other to shreds and not get anywhere.
My vote has something to do with starting a cult of show & tell cells across the world and universe where we just try to be honest with each other about what we’re experiencing out of life, and basically not be too harsh with anybody else. I think it’s kind of a fun idea and I am trying to use it to the greatest impact of just being honest with myself. That these are the things that I feel that are important. They may or may not be important tomorrow. I don’t even know what they mean. They just seemed neat so I picked them up and brought them home with me while I was out walking.
Hopefully that is suitably cryptic! Enjoy the New Year!
Also in this episode: I talk about what albums I have been listening to, what movies I have been watching, do some rambling about stuff and read notes out of a little book I carry around with me sometimes and jot down things in. Oh, and I eat a couple things and pause for a moment or two to listen to Steely Dan saxophone solos…
And just in case people have totally fucking lost track of what the hell I have been on about lately, just think of my recent experiments as poetry. I am trying to capture the underlying essence, the experience of what it is to be who we are and talk and think about the things we do. I am not sure where all of this is going. My life is even opaque to me. I don’t expect anyone else to necessarily understand it either.
December 31st, 2006 at 6:20 am
Holy shit this sounds hilarious. I can’t even listen to it. I’m fucking eating chips during it!
January 4th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
I liked the mental image of the key that’s been copied so many times that it now can’t open it’s original door…but might e able to open another one.
I watched Over the Edge again recently. That movie always seems to exist outside of time for me, personally.
January 4th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Yeah what a weird awesome movie!
January 4th, 2007 at 5:41 pm
yeah…there’s a weird alternate reality feel to that movie, IMO. I guess there always kinda was.
also, whatever that was that Claude was watching on TV was nuts!
January 4th, 2007 at 5:53 pm
I don’t remember what you’re talking about with regards to Claude. Somebody told me that movie was allegedly an inspiration behind the Columbine shootings
My favorite part of that movie is when they are at the construction site and the one kid says to the girl that she’s pretty or something. And then she says that he has nice eyelashes. I don’t know. There’s just something so perfect and simple about that interaction. All the kid actors in that are freakin rad.
January 4th, 2007 at 7:26 pm
He and his brother are watching TV in their room at one point and either one of them or both of them are staring at the TV screen and there’s like this looped animation…I can’t remember it exactly, but my brain seems to be going with the image of one of those “God’s Eye”, mandala sorta shapes….but it kept repeating. I kinda like to think of it as a weird abstract pattern-message sent by a rogue Atari 2600 video game console that figured out how to do motion graphics on it’s own, if that helps.
yeah, I remember that part. I really liked how the kids seemed like real kids. the characters were never too far one way or the other. I liked that. It reminded me a lot of friends I had in junior high.
speaking of columbine…have you seen “elephant”?
January 4th, 2007 at 7:47 pm
No but somebody else mentioned that movie recently as well. A few people actually. What’s it all about?