Month: July 2008
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #4
“My sister says that she did. When we were very young and living in Lebanon, Ohio” I’d done Interview 2 with Niki but it hadn’t made it into the recorder, so we had planned to do the interview again the next evening. Niki showed up with her roommate, Gretchen, who was just as game, and…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #3
Ben was loading a dresser into his truck. I asked him if he’d like to do an interview. He asked what it would be about. This was only my third interview and no one had asked me what it would be about before and I wondered how best to answer that question without ruining the…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #2
“Maybe tomorrow is better,” I said. “I’ve not figured out the recorder yet and H.o.p.’s camera isn’t charged.” I knew an arrangement where I’d be using H.o.p.’s digital camera to capture interviews for transcription wasn’t going to work out as he is using his camera all the time and I never know when it’s going…
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"Have you ever seen a UFO?" #1
No. “You asked the wrong person!” George has the honor of being my very first interviewee. I saw him outside the window and decided I might as well start now and we could use H.o.p.’s little digital camera to record a movie from which I could make a transcription. Knowing the battery in H.o.p.’s camera…
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Dear Santa
For Christmas, right? Right? On top of the tree where the angel should be?
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H.o.p. Art – Modeling Clay Creatures and notes on films you'll never see
H.o.p. should be blogging these things on his blog but he never thinks to do it. He’s been on another modeling clay kick the past few months. We have literally hundreds of his creations all over the apartment, most of which he fabricates intending to use in little films, but then he doesn’t get around…
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Some notes after viewing "Aguirre, the Wrath of God"
[clear] Not like it’s an uncommon subject around here, but the other night Marty and I briefly discussed those big life changes where either through a sudden disruption or a slow, almost unnoticed disintegration, one opens one’s eyes to find that one is either on the edge or dead center of not just a spiritual…
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Maybe a new little side project
The other day this came to my mind, something which I thought could be an interesting project to pursue on a long term basis, something which would be perfect for blogging, which could be possibly entertaining while offering a tiny, unassuming window on a narrow spectrum of experience that is infrequently talked about and often…
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Scratching the sacred itch of secular mysteries
We’re big appreciators of Tom Waits around here. H.o.p. as well. He’s been an avid listener since he was little. When he was two or three he listened to “Bone Machine” non stop for a year. Back in 2004 when he was, what, 6, he did the below picture as a tribute to Waits’ “What’s…