So much noise, but you can hear me and I'll trouble your mind

[sovay]

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.

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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[sovay]

I suspect the party with the cell phones were playing an immersive augmented reality game, like Ingress.

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.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Ingress is, indeed a real thing. d|p and I play. The game overlays a series of portals on real geography, to which you walk (or drive) and get stuff from or switch from the other team's color to yours (blue or green. We're green). You run links from portal to portal, make triangles, get points and, yeah, there's a story, but it's not something into which I have gotten. d|p is far more into the game than I have and holy crap has it done good things for her social anxiety - there's a lot of team-based stuff you can do (making big triangles that overlay for big points) that she does often with other ingress people. Me, I'm more an ingress partner. I play with her, and that's about it.

[sovay]

d|p is far more into the game than I have and holy crap has it done good things for her social anxiety - there's a lot of team-based stuff you can do (making big triangles that overlay for big points) that she does often with other ingress people.

That's fascinating and I had no idea. Thank you!

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

That's roughly what I was going to say. :) I've been playing Ingress a little under a year.

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.

[sovay]

"and the wax heart weeps and blisters/and it's burning where he kissed her"

Yes! I love that song.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

I do too. That was the first Dave and Tracy song I ever heard, followed by I Go Like the Raven.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

If you decide to give it a try, go enlightened...