kaleidoscope eyes

electrojazz

last night, longish duets between a laptop and a jazz drummer made my weekend.

thanks kieran hebden (four tet) & steve reid for bringing two genres together in soul oscillating fluidity.  the whole time, you could tell they were really feeling the music they were creating and having fun with the merging of sounds as they kept looking over at each other like, "yea, we rock!"  mmm yea, it was a good show.

confucius say -

we have a narrow little drawer in our kitchen full of fortune cookies.  it's the drawer where we keep the tin foil, and for some reason, leftover soy sauce from chinese take out.  since no one's been eating those complimentary little things, they've been accumulating in there alongside the reynolds wrap and yi pin packets.  

so i told myself i should reach in there and crack one open to see what kind of badly written destiny was foreseen for me - confidently printed in bright red ink, snuggled between two assuring smiley faces across that familiarly sized strip.  and of course, check out my lucky numbers & learn some chinese :)

i guess the future's mysterious, so we're more likely to believe in, or at least ponder, a darling piece of paper we had to work a little to get to.  i'm not saying that anyone takes fortune cookies seriously (except maybe in freaky friday), but i think most of us look forward to reading that little bit of insight about you and deciding if it's absurd or "so true."  

watch as your friends read them aloud; humans are so curious about themselves.  what a fun little phenomenon.  we're naturally always eager to learn and know more about the self.

thirsty boots

BLUR

a thing that cannot be  heard or seen clearly.

hazy to the eyes and mind.

an indistinct memory

or impression of events

typically because they happened very fast.

"and although it seems heaven sent, we ain't ready, to see a black president"

today, I'm hoping 2pac was wrong.

...But when his Democratic crowds jeer at the mere mention of Senator John McCain, he offers a gentle scolding, "You don't need to boo, you just need to vote."

wildcat

Living in NYC:

Positive: i picked up a video game proposal out of some recycling, and now i know what video game proposals look like; their formats, proposed budgets & milestones.  learning random shit by picking through the trash; its like some hobo intellectual fantasy.

Negative: i get texts that go like this: "guys just a warning - the crips are having an initiation this weekend, which will involve attacking a woman"

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"I feel the pain of fleeting joy."

-Nadja, the postmodern vampire

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how often do you see butterflies?

oxygenation

from sap green to yellow ochre and burnt sienna.  autumn leaves are dynamos.  and awfully pretty too.