tales from an ordinary world

2001-01-10

I'm eternally grateful
to my past influences
but they will not free me
I am not diseased
all the people ask me
how I wrote "Elastic Man".
The Fall.

The beat goes on.

I'm masking out noise with other noise. This CD does better than the first one.

and on.

They both apologized, for having made me listen to it all. "No, it's fine, I do this all the time. Really." As we crossed the road, I was trying to think of the right way of saying "I guess in some ways, this is my life - this is what I do, more than anything else", but the moment had passed and the conversation had already moved on.

and on.

The night before Christmas, my housemate was channel-surfing, and for a few minutes we ended up watching a Christianity documentary that was talking about sculptures of Christ, surrounded by women who were depicted, the narrator explained, in "conventional latitudes of grief."

and on.

It's not the voices that put me to sleep, it's the music.

and on.

Now listening to an old Mission of Burma CD and The Fall's This Nation's Saving Grace.