The balloon pops…

November 15, 2009 at 2:04 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Thisisalloneword is having a bad Christmas Day. He is with friends and they are eating, watching TV and swapping presents. Oh yes, they are also awaiting the inevitable appearance of a massive demon who will come to drag some of them back to the underworld. Someone was trying to keep secret the small amount demon blood that they carried through their veins. Thisisalloneword is waiting and planning both an attack, an escape and a survival strategy for being in hell.
There are small children present and this is the type of thing that can put them off Christmas for life.
But no demon ever shows and thisisalloneword finds himself watching Christmas TV with everyone else. It’s the local news and it’s Chris Coneybeer reporting from some fishing town on the south coast; he’s working on Christmas day, fair play to him, hope he’s getting overtime. Anyway the news story is that a strange canoe shaped speedboat had been seen going really fast along some river/lake and the river/lake had recently that day been bought by corrupt fishermen from China. The boat was actually some sort of fishing boat that had killed all the fish in the whole river/lake within minutes! The waters ran red with fish blood. Local people were very angry.
Chris does his piece to camera which is a bit odd because he stands still but his arms and hands keep motioning from left to right and the camera man follows the movements of his hands so the whole piece is decidedly odd. These corrupt no good people want all the fish right away to sell over the holidays and to hell with the fish stock (no pun intended) after that. Chris then passes over to some sort of expert who proceeds to interrogate two fishermen and ask the opinion of an angry local.
The two fishermen insult the interviewers mother and so he offers to fight them. They except and now we have a live broadcast fight. The interviewer hits one of them with a door and then puts the boot into his head – he soon dispatches them both.
Odd. Most odd.
Thisisalloneword then finds himself in Lymington High Street and the two fishermen are looking for him. They meet on the corner of New St and thisisalloneword duffs them up. But they will be back we more people soon so he starts making his way up the High St towards the church. Four of them attack him now and he punches one a few times and then realises that the man is also somehow a balloon and so he changes tack from hitting to bitting the ’skin’ of his opponent who suddenly deflates and shrinks to the size of a balloon with a slow puncture.
The rest of them chase him and someone who thisisalloneword guesses is on his side, a younger guy with a large afro, to the church. The church is a massive Gothic building with gargoyles and spires and balconies and spikes and in a creepy overgrown graveyard. Thisisalloneword has remembered that he can fly at this point so he nips up to the top of the church awaiting his foes. The afro guy runs inside the church and disappears. Thisisalloneword glides with (and he’s never seen these before) thin wings, down to the end of the graveyard where there is an old shed. He gets caught up in the branches of trees though – damn these wings! – and one of the fishermen finds him…
…as they chase each other around the graveyard they then see a game in progress near the church and they stop fighting and forget all about their differences to watch the game. This involves people throwing a large rock at each others heads – what fun! No-one is angry about being hit by the heavy rock because when hit they forget all about everything and their brains fell no pain. Everyone laughs and agrees to be best friends when they see this fun game and the dozens of happy people playing it…

Past and Present Tents

November 15, 2009 at 1:39 am | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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Thisisalloneword is (please feel free to act mock surprised at this point) in a record store. To be precise(ish) he is in an HMV – possible the one on Oxford street. He is shopping for a kids book for a friends 3 yr old for Christmas. Where have the books been moved? He walks upstairs and follows a path which cuts between two tall glass-mirror buildings in some city-banking type area – the occasional power pressed women runs between doors either on their way to get a coffee or return with one.
Thisisalloneword hangs a left and up an escalator which builds itself before his very eyes, it’s more a travelator with steps but that curves in a large semi circle high above a collection of music hardware; amplifiers, mixers, and suchlike. There is no barrier and thisisalloneword has to trust that the moving platform he is on will not suddenly jar and let him fall. The journey ends, pretty near back to where he got on the escalator, and he sees three tents and a collection of clothes. Hang on! They are his clothes and one of those tents is his…
…people appear to tell him that he left his tent and clothes here after a Glastonbury Festival when he needed to crash out on his way home, seemingly in some weird store room somewhere in London… he jokingly asks “wow, had I taken a fair bit of LSD that day?” to which he is told, “yes, you had, during band x”. Oh! He then finds that the whole area is filling up with friends and that they are under a massive marquee which is protecting them from the rain. “It was a great idea to bring this marquee,” says someone, “well worth it”.
It seems with that comment that they are actually at the festival and not in some storeroom at all. Oh well, lets all get some kip then, under our nice warm massive marquee…

The Physics of Dreaming (from 27th Sep 06)

November 11, 2009 at 6:53 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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There is a ball tied by a thin piece of string to a cube that sits on the floor. I throw the ball against the cube and watch the path the ball takes as it bounces off, away from the cube until the string swings its path back towards the cube. I notice two things;

  1. The angle of the bounce of the ball is often a reflection of what you would expect. E.g. I throw the ball at an angle of 45 degrees to one side of the cube and instead of the ball bouncing away form me at an angle close to 45 degrees in bounces back towards me at the same angle.
  2. The potential speed of the ball is pretty constant. It does not seem slowed down by gravity or friction. There is some loss of energy but far, far less than you would imagine.

As the ball spins, bounces, and flies around I see its path as a line, a line that seems to be coloured and so an abstract pattern emerges in reds and blues.

 

The starting conditions of the throw determine the path and even a tiny difference in angle, position or force leads to wildly different patterns.

Follow the Sun (from 26th Sep 06)

November 11, 2009 at 6:52 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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Thisisalloneword has escaped from the claws of fashionistas in London Docklands and the Beer Boys sat around the picnic tables under the canvas walkthrough area who would look to start a fight with him, especially after the recent horrendous make-over that was inflicted on him – skinny rib t-shirts, mesh tops and clip on metal objects – well, exactly…

…later he finds himself outside on the plains with family and he follows the path of the sunbeam as it crooks and turns across the land. This only works on one day of the year, walking the sun-path has always been family tradition, for generations and generations. Even when the sun dissapears behind clouds the path is easily recognisable because it has become so worn away over the years. The path wends its way, strangely backwards and zigzagging up the hill towards the old stone castle. The family Foster follow as they have always done. Thisisalloneword finds comfort in this slow, friendly repitiiton. This is his religion, this is his path.

Cheese and dreams (from 21st Sep 06)

November 10, 2009 at 8:44 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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It’s been a week or so now since I last had a dream that I could remember. What happened? There’s still plenty going on there, I can feel it, and I am still pressing my snooze button within a second of the alarm buzzing so that I will hopefully fall straight back into the dream – but when I’m properly awake I have no idea what it was I was just dreaming. I’ve never had this problem before – I hope that it’s merely a small blip. I even ate cheese last night in some hope that it might help. Is that an old wives tale or is it true? Let me see…

This is a great article; http://www.britishcheese.com/news.cfm?page_id=240 so there you go, its scientific fact! So, Cheddar or Red Leicester before bed this evening? I’m not much of a soft cheese fan mores the pity…

Comedy

September 4, 2009 at 1:06 pm | In Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
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‘How did I end up here?’ thinks thisisalloneword ‘This is not a good idea’. These phrases are repeated, the evening mantras, over and over again as he stands, sometimes sits, always shaking, backstage at the comedy night.
It was Fox’s fault, if blame need be assigned, he was the one who decided that they should both attempt to get through a night alive performing stand up. This isn’t even one of those free-to-get-in try out nights that they have in pub back rooms. This is a proper night of quality entertainment.
Thisisalloneword has no plan, no jokes, no ideas, nothing close to hand except fear. Maybe fear will help? No. Hell no. OK, maybe crowd expectations are very low and he can get booed off along with everyone else that night – who else is on? He checks out front of stage; and why, it’s Sarah Silverman giving good comedy and playing a mean jazz trombone. She duets with Dylan Moran playing tuba and the music is not only beautiful but it’s actually somehow funny at the same time. How is that even possible?
Thisisalloneword runs away, back to the safety of a small dressing room. Where’d Fox go?
He passes the compare who is obviously on some weird awesome comedy high because he did the last link whilst undressing completely. Yes, nakedness is funny. That’s not a good idea for thisisalloneword though because the site of a naked fearful stand up refusing to say anything is not cool, not cool.
What the hell can he say? His mind is blank. He walks towards the stage. The fear is changing to a masochistic curiosity.
He passes out.

Muliple pasts (from 30th Aug 06)

July 28, 2009 at 10:24 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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And so thisisalloneword finds himself stuck in some classroom four floors up in a country close to both his old childhood town and Japan. Looking out over the water to the Island he sees the first of the bombs decimate the small leafy city at the foot of the mountains. Holy shit! That was one hell of an explosion – Jesus, look at the mushroom cloud. Shit! We’re going to feel that blast in a few seconds! Everyone, everyone, the shock-waves are going to hit very soon, maybe more bombs will let off, maybe closer to us, goddam terrorists, everyone lie on the floor (yes, I’m sure that that’ll work just fine).

We all lie down on the floor as the first waves hit, the building rocks, shaking, shuddering and then suddenly leering, tipping at twenty degrees. Bodies fly about, students fall through the windows and smash onto the grey concrete yard below, those that can hold onto their surroundings, surfing the chaos. Keep upright, keep calm, keep holding on, it’ll be over soon.

Then it stops. Thisisalloneword makes his way to the ground floor hall where the students that made it are making their way outside, not rushing, in a state of dazed, numbed, coolness. They are silent but as soon as one starts talking they all do. Then down, down into the underground to make their way to safety, somewhere. Thisisalloneword is being stalked, but not in a very menacing way, by a fellow student. He gives him the slip at the first escalator but they meet up on the platform. When the train arrives they step into the carriage and as the train moves a fellow passenger approaches them. She is an old lady with short grey hair tied tight at the back and white eyes that suggest she is blind.

Can she read thisisalloneword? Sure, why not… she places her palms over his eyes and tries to dig into him. This may not be easy to do, he tells her, because I have multiple pasts…

…Somewhere along the line thisisalloneword became the collusion of two distinct people. He knows exactly when this happened. He was approaching a small room on the side of a wide expanse of concrete, high walls, like on a castle. Under the door seeps a red liquid, not blood, but some kind of water. Inside this is his other.
His other didn’t know what was happening, he’d gone inside this room for some reason and then it started filling with this red stuff till he was almost drowning and then the door opened from the outside and it was… it was him opening the door and then he vanished and then there was only one of them left, but which one? No, both of them were gone and one remained, was that it? Kind of.

This fills them/him with a strange, fervent belief that no harm can come to him. He tells his friend and she is worried but sort of agrees that he does seem better now, better than before when he was such a pessimist.

Thisisalloneword has seen this all before, he remembers it as if he had been watching it on television that morning.

Bears (from 22nd Aug 06)

July 28, 2009 at 10:21 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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Bears everywhere. NOT safe to venture outside, not that this is stopping you and your desire for shopping. Ah well I suppose I’ll have to go too. I sit in the back of your small red car (is it a beetle or a 2cv? – something like that – some small car with friendly curves) directly behind you. The passenger window is shaded deep pink. When did you get that done? Still, the window works fine, winds down and up ok, what more do you need?

Oh yes, the bears. They are everywhere. I do not know where they came from but they are not friendly so wherever it was I hope that they go back there sharpish.

Listen; we will need to drive carefully but at a good speed, not many other people have dared go out so the roads will be empty, stick to the roads as much as possible, try to avoid the long grass because the bears can not be seen in it. If we hit a bear then reverse straight away.

There are bears all over the place, standing up on the embankments at the side of the road in seemingly fixed frequency of one bear every 20 metres. You can not stop. We approach the roundabout and there are cars ahead but we dare not slow down and so we shoot across cutting up a motorist or two then we snake in and out of some oncoming traffic and I try and calm you down. You are driving for your life here.

The phone rings and everything disappears.

murder at the allotments (from 28th Jun 06)

July 27, 2009 at 11:35 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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There was a murder at the allotments,
Behind thin white plastic screens
And rows of runner beans
Just out of view
Over the other side of the concrete shed
With the corrugated iron roof.
I saw two men;
One old, one middle aged
Disappear, down the other side
And I knew that only one would be leaving.
Empty promises, blank stares and hollow laughter
I assure you – it gets much darker hereafter.
I followed the middle aged man down the road
Through the North London estate.
He was joined by a younger woman
She looked business-like; pin stripe suit
Blonde hair pinned up, high heels
A look of sickness shows she feels -
Some sort of remorse?
They say to me that they were asked to
Perform this dark request
By people who
You just don’t say no to.
I nod and say that it only happens
Once in a lifetime,
They won’t get asked again,
The worst is over.
Empty promises, blank stares and hollow laughter
I assure you – it gets much darker hereafter.

2 years ago… (from 9th Jun 06)

July 27, 2009 at 11:29 pm | In Migrated 20six stuff | Leave a Comment
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thisisalloneword finds himself in a science laboratory with Fox, Matt, and others. They are going to attempt to travel through time. They will go backwards 2 years. I’m not sure if you could call their method of transportation (?) a machine or not. They have to jump into an area of the room that will hold them in a kind of stasis for the time period negative two years. They wont notice the time at all, as soon as they jump into the area they will freeze and a tiny amount of “their time” later they will come out of this stasis and into the time of two years ago.

It will be very cold – wrap up warm

Joe has only a few seconds to go – fox went first and he has disappeared – Joe is trying to locate his beanie hat, he found his scarf a sec ago, but no hat. Ah well, too late, here we go.

He jumps into the area. A second passes (?). he then falls forward onto the floor. It is freezing. Fox is there saying “it works, it works!”. They both wait and Matt’s frozen body appears. Fox says “wait a minute – he’ll stay like that till he falls”.

True, Matt is suspended there and then suddenly falls forward. Weird.

Why is it so cold? it is so cold.

Comment:
Is it cold because it’s in the middle of January? Maybe the area of the room is one of those walk in freezers you get in restaurant kitchens? Hooray! Smileys!
Blog looks much better by the way.

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