I sat at my desk and consumed it. I start spinning a pen in my fingers fast and agitatedly. My feet bounce off the floor. They were bouncing before but this is even more so. After a few minutes I start losing concentration in what I'm doing on the computer. I can't help it. My mind is swimming. I feel as though I want to be genuinely enthusiastic about working with the people around me. I wanna be lively with my workmates and get along with them. My mind then switches to saxophone great John Coltrane's best piece: Giant Steps. I feel as though I'm playing the main riff on guitar and there is his band playing with me. We're being recorded in a studio. It's a very comforting feeling. I look around the office and realise that everyone must be feeling this. Wow. This is what they feel all day. Wow. Then I start feeling a cold chill through me. I look at my hand. It is shaking. My muscles are twitching all over. Even though it's a fine day I feel I really need my coat on now. I feel cold. I start fearing that I may have Parkinson's Disease. Shit. I don't want that. I start thinking about that as much as I like Back to the Future, I don't wanna be like Michael J. Fox. Marty McFly!!! Yeah!!!!
The trip faded out gradually from there. It lasted about 30 minutes. I hadn't felt anything like that before.
Not influenced at all by my holiday to trip-out-city, I bought a 1983 movie on DVD called Koyaanisqatsi. It's a Hopi-Indian word which means "life out of balance". It's a movie with music by wacky composer Philip Glass (main reason why I got it), features no dialogue and has mostly stock footage of various shit. It's an arty movie which I only saw 2 minutes of and decided: I've gotta see that. Unfortunately it's one of those films you need to see on a ten storey high screen to get the most out of. Ah fuck it.
2 comments:
yaya! another blog!
that trip out was awesome. i think about back to the future too when i think of parkinsons disease.
that's crazy awesome. i want to watch that film!
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