“I think I’ve created an environment in this forest that
allows me to dream and to think. I like to work in that state musically, I’m
very happy in that dream-like world…It’s a very internal type of sight, it’s a
memory really…There has to be some struggle, I think, to create something of
value, so there’s always that searching inwards.” - Howard Shore, composer
_________
The spiraling staircases in the inner lining of the
university campus stretch as with poor digestion in the expunging of this
semester’s students. It is our final few days. My friend, bound by the head
with heavy dreadlocks races down the stairs, his phone falls from his clothing.
On the phone, I see his experiments with asemic manuscript art. I am relatively unimpressed yet endeared
by his attempts to invigorate this little known art form that I have been so
adamantly embracing.
That summer, I board a ship-bound theatre. Is this a re-telling
of “Queen of the Nile”? I am unsure as to the exact play. Soon, I begin to
befriend those on board the ship in the starlight sun. All are jovial and
friendly as the high-spirited waters direct us further into the riverine
wilderness, high above atop the luxurious craft. In one scene, there is a
procession involving an African woman character as lead. Two African-American
ladies on board vie for the part. The scene calls for a booming voice. I
console the lady who was denied the part. She receives her secondary well and
smiles to me warmly when I whisper into her ear in Spanish. “You are the best
to play the African role.”
In a campfire setting, unseen by a gathering of people on
the banks of the palm-encrusted river banks, I sit with a Venezuelan friend as
the festivities prosper in our midst. He shows me his new guitar, an electric
Oud, played also by a Sudanese artist. Quickly, I mention my knowledge of the
doumbek, after which he invites me to play with him. Our music is fine and
elegant to the ears, as the fire spits rejuvenated glory into the dusky damp
canopies above. Shadows flit with gorgeous mystery.
__________
Ship
"To dream of ships, foretells honour and unexpected elevation to ranks above your mode of life...If you dream of being on a ship, you should listen to your instincts in waking life - they are powerful allies for helping you deal with everyday problems...if the voyage is calm you should go ahead with your plans."
________
"There is no more to say."
So I said nothing.
When no response is needed, you don’t even show a face.
“There is no room for necessity.
We are past that.
We live for ideology and we have abandoned spirit for the still death of the end.”
Feb. 19 2010
L.A. apartment
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