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]

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...