Journal sielwolf's Journal: Soft Eyes 1
Today, In the Lab
Me: "A dolphin goes: 'Ort! Ort! Or- waitaminute. That's more of an otter. A dolphin really goes 'Eek! Eek! Eek!' A Manatee goes: 'Uhhh... I'm so fat! Where are my fat jeans?!?"
J: "C, don't you miss working in your office?"
C: "I don't get entertained when I sit up there."
Yesterday
Me: "Did I ever tell you about the woodpecker that got in my parents' chimney? It would peck away at the metal lining because it was mating season or something. Made all kinds of racket. This was in their second to last new house. Not their new new house. Anyway, so my dad bought a pellet gun and waited for the bird to perch itself on the the chimney and then *makes motion like aiming rifle. pulls trigger* PSSHT! Tink! 'Eekeekeek!' And the woodpecker never came back."
J: "I really got to meet your father some day."
Later Today
[Walking out of Trapeze. A restaurant that just went up. Underwhelming. It's like Surf Bar 'cause Surf Bar sucks now]
Me: *Does 'Entrance of the Gladiators'*
Me: "If I was a gladiator, I would never come out to 'Entrance of the Gladiators'. I'd just let the Emperor kill me."
J: "'Entrance of the Gladiators'?"
Me: *Does 'Entrance of the Gladiators'*
J: "You mean that circus music?"
Me: "Yes. 'Entrance of the Gladiators'"
J: "No way."
Me: "Yes. Doesn't sound bad ass at all. Even the 'Sabre Dance' doesn't sound like something Cossacks would go rocking out to."
J: "The 'Sabre Dance'?"
Me: *Does 'Sabre Dance'*
J: "Hmm."
Me: "Though now most people would probably know The Gayne Ballet Suite for 'Lullaby'. It's used in every sci-fi movie set in space. 2001, Aliens."
J: "Really?"
Me: "Very slow and majestic. Khatchaturian, one of those great 20th century composers. So good that Stalin loved him and he got his ass thrown in a gulag."
J: "What?"
Me: "Yes. He wrote a symphony that the High Soviet found to be-"
C: "How do you know this?"
J: "I wish I had a photographic memory."
Me: "I don't have a photographic memory."
C: "But you remember all of this stuff."
J: "I bet you only read about that stuff once before, right? You have a photographic memory."
Me: "I dunno."
C: "What's a gulag?"
Me: "A forced labor camp for criminals and political undesireables."
[I don't have a photographic memory. I don't read things and the data gets sucked off of them. I remember things but a lot of it is hazy. I can remember parts of songs, the pages of this month's Esquire. The blurb at the bottom of one page about memory. The color of the page. The bubbled shape of the sidebar. I can see pages and know the information is there, but I can't produce the words and letters. There are so many gaps. I struggle to remember things. But then I like information. Information is interesting and interesting stuff is easy to remember. I can't just remember a line of numbers if you asked me]
Two weeks ago in Orlando, sitting around J's hotel room after the per diem buster meal
Me: "Shit, it's 10:30. We've been sitting here for three hours shooting the shit."
J: "I haven't been doing anything. You've been talking and I've just been agreeing with you."
Me: "Thanks. Now I sound like a fourteen year old girl."
J: "It didn't mean anything. You're just more observant than I am. You bring up all this stuff I never notice."
Two weeks ago, on The Wire
Teacher [to Prez]: "You need Soft Eyes."
Prez: "Soft eyes?"
Today, as I was Leaving Work
T: "Hey s." [She always says my name. But then J and I share the same name. This really tickles her to no end]
Me: "Hey T."
T: "Haha. I love watching you walk."
Me: "What? What's so interesting about how I walk?"
T: "I dunno. You are always so *leans to the side as to demonstrate* laid back."
Me: "Huh."
T: "Have a good weekend."
Me: "You too."
Various
J [to me]: "I'd love to be in your brain- just once. To see what it's like in there."
Ah -- _The Wire_ (Score:2)
Bunk said the same thing to Nakima, 2 episodes later.
God, I love that show. It's real, it's poignant, it's depressing. It's live, served up in HD goodness, begging people to look at it for what it is and praying to god that someone can do something about it. Alas, still waiting on that doer. BTW -- Anyone check out Showtime's Dexter?