Ever think about how used sometimes you are to a television being there that you take it as a given that it's there with it's reflective off-state or light-filled on-state, and then when it's not there, you look, and it's like, where did my reflection go???
I don't really want to make this into a stream-of-consciousness random thoughts thing. I hope it can be more organized than that. Not that genuine raw thoughts aren't important, but there's a time and place and method most important.
I hope you know that most of the weird syntactical things such as randomly in a counter-intuitive pattern words placing is just either me being obnoxious or just forsaking normalcy or correctness for what comes to mind first and just happens to sound better that way as these things tend to do. It's funny the sounds our minds make. Sorry for any confusions if such confusions have or will arise.
Okay. Topic. Go.
I am for some reason particularly taken to the busy downtown-ness of cities. Where the grime and rush and car horns really shove themselves in your face. I like how the exhaust of cars and disturbed dust from the ground mix into a disgusting cloud of do-not-want-in-your-respiratory-system. Where the buildings block any hope of seeing the more than a sliver of the sky. Buses transporting frantic and hurried businessmen to their busy work ahead of them. Buildings that either look like they are more important than anything your own petty life could amount to, and those that you're glad your life hasn't stooped to the level of having to work at.
Not that I don't like the non-crazy parts of cities or people-dwelling places in general. It's just that I like the somewhat comforting knowledge that those groups of Big Important Buildings with Very Important People are there. I like the parts of cities with actual trees or visible sky or crossable roads. They're nice, more peaceful, kinda cool as in relaxed and all.
One of my biggest irrational, I don't know what to call it, dread? is of really tall buildings, as in like just two or three, that are just huge and menacing, and everything around it though is if not barren extremely uninteresting and normal and not-tall. like, to illustrate the insanity:
Like, it's just, terrifying. It fills you -- me -- with dread and horror, and I can hardly trace it to any kind of normal reasonable premise except that possibly it could be that these ominous towers of terror being in the middle of nowhere must imply that they house some kind of terrible evil or awful unpleasantness, and that to be near such atrocities would immediately endanger my life irreparably.
Scary shit, man.
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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2 comments:
I've never thought about it before, but you're right. It is kind of ominous to just have some random skyscrapers or whatever in the middle of nowhere.
I have the same fear. Also windmills that are not moving or moving very slowly are the scariest thing in the world.
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