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i had a bit of a moment last week, when i was heading out to catch a train. my place is next to a kindergarten, i head down a path that leads behind my house to get to the station. the path runs down the side of a grass play ground, which backs onto some low lying bush with tough, spiny ferns; eucalyptus trees, and blackboy plants. anyhow it was about 10am, and as i walked down this path i saw 6 or so toddlers standing as a group in the bushy section. one of them kept falling over. they talked together in their toddler-speak. i pictured myself as one of those kids, imagined the scene through their eyes, for me the situtation was like a kind of a safari, an adventure. as i continued on to the station i found myself in a great mood. i reflected on this later when i has my dad over for dinner, and i described this scene to him. he told me that i should write, granted, that half of it would be bollocks that most people would find hard to understand; but also he said i had a way with words, and a certain way of looking at things. so yeah when it occurs to me i try to put myself in the place of someone else. so often we apportion the wrong sentiments to other people, because we misunderstand or misperceive what it is like to be in their place. yet sometimes the answers can be so easy to know. |
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why not audio record it... add some manic drums all cut up and reversed etc and call it future folk. The story has got that sorta down home vibe that is just screaming for a HHat crash and cut up vocals or something |
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yeah i should sit down next to someone spinning drum and bass records and read from my book. i could be the for a new generation. |
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The person I used to be tried that once. I looked through the eyes of some stranger (the person who I am now). And through his eyes I looked back at myself, who was in a helpless other-person-eye-looking-through trance, with a desire to kill. Which of course I did and here I am today as the stranger. |
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thats exactly right though. if i know that my emotions are getting the better of my judgement, and that im behaving irrationally toward another person, then i find looking at myself through their eyes to be really sobering. |
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What if they are blind? |
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What if I am blind? |
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i dunno, stevie wonder seemed like he was in touch. |
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I met an Australian that looked like ...a wrinkled face and leathery skin. Sans the crocodile of course. I wonder what I would see throught the eyes of Paul Hogan. Hmm... |
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Write a t.v. cartoon series called, maybe, Rugrats, based on your experience! |
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thats brilliant, do you want a voice acting spot? |
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The co-composer on Rugrats is also Wes Anderson's film composer of choice (e.g. The Life Aquatic) |
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more importantly he was a member of devo. |
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It's part of empathy. Many people lack this ability, and they mostly vote for right-wing parties. |
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while my guitar gently weeps |
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I heard (from an American), that the U.S.A. is so corporate these days that there is an absolute lack of compassion and empathy: this source reported to me that a person was three cents short in a store and was not let off with it: this was right after I was twenty pence (sterling) short at a shop because I'd left my change in my other trousers; the person serving me took twenty of their own pence from their own pocket, saying "It's fine, I have twenty pence right here." I gave much thansk and departed the scene, buoyed by the compassion show to me by this stranger. |
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don't forget to post that in |
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Haha, wtf, three cents? That's nothing! Get your act together America! |
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