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So much noise, but you can hear me and I'll trouble your mind
Because I do not carry a camera with me, I did not take a picture of the cherry-colored wax heart slowly melting on the asphalt of a parking lot as I walked back from Harvard Square and Pemberton's this afternoon. It was really striking, though.
It would probably have been intrusive to take a picture of the three people I met walking up my street as I continued home, but two of them were looking at their phones and one of them was studying a tablet, so maybe they wouldn't have noticed. They were walking in a group, none of them talking to the others. I wondered if they were part of some kind of scavenger hunt, but maybe they were just conversing in print.
My walk home this afternoon was slightly more like a surrealist film than I was expecting, is what I think I'm saying. Or at least a near-future science fiction.
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handful_ofdust's recommendation, I'm going. I really think the only movies I've seen by Raimi are Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). I keep associating him with Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), but that's just because of Bruce Campbell.
It would probably have been intrusive to take a picture of the three people I met walking up my street as I continued home, but two of them were looking at their phones and one of them was studying a tablet, so maybe they wouldn't have noticed. They were walking in a group, none of them talking to the others. I wondered if they were part of some kind of scavenger hunt, but maybe they were just conversing in print.
My walk home this afternoon was slightly more like a surrealist film than I was expecting, is what I think I'm saying. Or at least a near-future science fiction.
The late show at the Brattle tonight is Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990). On
handful_ofdust's recommendation, I'm going. I really think the only movies I've seen by Raimi are Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004). I keep associating him with Bubba Ho-Tep (2002), but that's just because of Bruce Campbell.
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Indeed! Was it a valentine-shaped heart or an anatomical heart?
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Valentine-shaped—it looked like one of those small red candies, except it was about the size of a golf ball and glistening in the heat. I have no idea what it was doing there. It would have made a great Tarot card.
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That sounds right. Or it's own trump, entirely...
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Great; now I'm going to be thinking about that. A few weeks ago I was writing a fictitious Tarot deck for a story fragment, with suits of stones, tides, storms, immolations. A melting heart would definitely be Immolations.
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This is a real thing?
Of course, given the surrealist bent of your walk, it might have been something entirely different.
My brain kept trying to draw connections between the two incidents. I couldn't make a narrative of it, but they still felt like they chimed. You could have juxtaposed them in a film. Wordlessly, to music. Preferably in Derek Jarman's Super 8 mm.
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That's fascinating and I had no idea. Thank you!
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Also, I finally worked out what the image of the melting heart was making me think of. It's Dave Carter's lyric in Kate and the Ghost of Lost Love "and the wax heart weeps and blisters/and it's burning where he kissed her", which calls back to the candle imagery earlier in the song. Oh look, an earworm.
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Yes! I love that song.
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Sadly, my phone's camera is actually terrible. I don't have a smartphone; I have one of the dumbest phones I could still buy in this day and age. It makes calls, it sends and receives texts, and it takes the blurriest, most pixellated, often falsely colored pictures imaginable. I still take pictures with it anyway, but they're the kind that are useful as records, not as objects of art in their own right.
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not communicating due to devices
The Dixie single-use serving ware company (like Dixie cups) is running ads on TV with the hashtag #darkfordinner, suggesting that people turn off all their devices for a family or friends dinner tonight (the 14th). A viewer of the ad doesn't realize the point until near the end of the ad. For most of the time, one just sees people chatting, telling stories, someone getting up from the table to show a dance move, lots of laughing. Nobody is seen whining that they are without texts for half an hour.
Re: not communicating due to devices
It just startled me to see three of them walking so closely together on an otherwise (except for me) unoccupied street, making absolutely no verbal or physical contact. Like, two people talking and one on their phone, whatever. The combined total electronic silence was the futuristic part.
For most of the time, one just sees people chatting, telling stories, someone getting up from the table to show a dance move, lots of laughing. Nobody is seen whining that they are without texts for half an hour.
Interesting. I wonder if it will work.
My parents used to insist that I not read all the way through dinner every night. I still think I classify that differently from having a conversation with people who aren't at the table.
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You know about Vivian Maier right? (http://vivianmaier.blogspot.com/)
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I do! I haven't seen the documentary, or even the book of her photography, but I've seen her images online. Thanks for the link, though—I had not seen that site.
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