Tuesday, October 31, 2006
An odyssey
I watched 2001 last night. I was rather trepidatious putting the DVD on to play because when it had arrived in the post that morning I realised that my mother had taken me to see the film as a child, and it had scared the shit out of me. I was so shocked by the film at the age of ten that the event has lain in my memory like a repressed trauma ever since.
When I saw it again last night I felt that fear and then accepted what it really was that had freaked me out. I knew exactly what the film is about. It is about something that the mind cannot fully grasp; hence terror, or repression. I feel much better today.
Christ Ken
I found this site a while ago; http://www.iamachrist.com/
I thought, I would like to meet Ken. This morning Ken turned up. Ken is my brother in law's gardener. I just realised how amazing he is, and how everyone you meet has something to show you that could be jolly useful. He is 75 years old, and he is fitter than me, certainly fitter than my poor exhausted father. He works as a gardener, which is clearly something he loves to do, and also regularly flies out to Greece with his girlfriend to go dancing. He stays with family. I told him that I hope I am as fit and well as him at his age. He is very proud of this and rightly so. He tells me, 'I am never without a woman'. His current girlfriend is 71; she does gardening work too. He told me that this last weekend they went out dancing. 'I like to jive, rock and roll' Ken tells me. She drank ten vodka redbulls. 'She went loopy!' he says. He left his glasses in the cab on the way home because she would not stop jumping about. He had to call the cab company in the morning to ask about his glasses. He is, as far as I can see, the most contented and relaxed man I know. I hope my father can be like this soon.
Richard
Flower and the the lovely woman who runs the yoga yurt place have both spontaneously called me Richard. Richard is my middle name, my Father's name, and the name of the Lionheart King. My father showed me devotion to a woman even when she is very unhappy and hurts you. Thank you very much, dad. Thank you.
I watched 2001 last night. I was rather trepidatious putting the DVD on to play because when it had arrived in the post that morning I realised that my mother had taken me to see the film as a child, and it had scared the shit out of me. I was so shocked by the film at the age of ten that the event has lain in my memory like a repressed trauma ever since.
When I saw it again last night I felt that fear and then accepted what it really was that had freaked me out. I knew exactly what the film is about. It is about something that the mind cannot fully grasp; hence terror, or repression. I feel much better today.
Christ Ken
I found this site a while ago; http://www.iamachrist.com/
I thought, I would like to meet Ken. This morning Ken turned up. Ken is my brother in law's gardener. I just realised how amazing he is, and how everyone you meet has something to show you that could be jolly useful. He is 75 years old, and he is fitter than me, certainly fitter than my poor exhausted father. He works as a gardener, which is clearly something he loves to do, and also regularly flies out to Greece with his girlfriend to go dancing. He stays with family. I told him that I hope I am as fit and well as him at his age. He is very proud of this and rightly so. He tells me, 'I am never without a woman'. His current girlfriend is 71; she does gardening work too. He told me that this last weekend they went out dancing. 'I like to jive, rock and roll' Ken tells me. She drank ten vodka redbulls. 'She went loopy!' he says. He left his glasses in the cab on the way home because she would not stop jumping about. He had to call the cab company in the morning to ask about his glasses. He is, as far as I can see, the most contented and relaxed man I know. I hope my father can be like this soon.
Richard
Flower and the the lovely woman who runs the yoga yurt place have both spontaneously called me Richard. Richard is my middle name, my Father's name, and the name of the Lionheart King. My father showed me devotion to a woman even when she is very unhappy and hurts you. Thank you very much, dad. Thank you.
Sunday, October 15, 2006
Sun Ra
I watched again the fabulous BBC tv documentary on Sun Ra this week. I realised with shock and delight that I understand what Ra is talking about.
Some highlights;
Sun Ra was being clerked in a hospital, when asked where he was born he answered 'Saturn'. The doctor, rather annoyed, asked a co worker to come and examine him and see if he was crazy. The co worker, a jazz fan, said, 'that is Sun Ra. Of course he is from Saturn'.
The drummer from Kool and The Gang goes to see Ra in concert for the first time. 'just at that moment, Ra hit a chord so big, he had to just walk straight back out again'.
'Man, they were so out there, they weren't out on a limb, they were hanging in space'.
The police come to the door of the house where Ra lives communally with his Solar Arkestra, to investigate a complaint of noise. Ra gets his bible and quotes to the police, 'make a joyful noise'. The police leave immediately and do not bother him again.
I watched again the fabulous BBC tv documentary on Sun Ra this week. I realised with shock and delight that I understand what Ra is talking about.
Some highlights;
Sun Ra was being clerked in a hospital, when asked where he was born he answered 'Saturn'. The doctor, rather annoyed, asked a co worker to come and examine him and see if he was crazy. The co worker, a jazz fan, said, 'that is Sun Ra. Of course he is from Saturn'.
The drummer from Kool and The Gang goes to see Ra in concert for the first time. 'just at that moment, Ra hit a chord so big, he had to just walk straight back out again'.
'Man, they were so out there, they weren't out on a limb, they were hanging in space'.
The police come to the door of the house where Ra lives communally with his Solar Arkestra, to investigate a complaint of noise. Ra gets his bible and quotes to the police, 'make a joyful noise'. The police leave immediately and do not bother him again.
