Boston melancholy
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yamamanamaΩ
Yesterday ended not in triumph nor heartbreak, but in disappointment and further uncertainty. Gabriella wasn't around and I think it's because it rained and it wasn't at the usual rain location. I'm still hoping to see her next week. I don't think Emma's coming to these concerts.
I'd honestly take heartbreak over disappointment. At least with heartbreak I can pick up the pieces and move on. And Emma was really nice and supportive about the whole thing and… okay, we're not really close friends anymore, but that's not her fault or Alex's fault or anyone's fault really, it's just that schedules change and we're all just going our separate ways this summer.
Emma, if you're still reading this, I just want you to know that it's been really fun and I really am glad I met you. I guess this is goodbye. Goodbye for a while, at least. Boribory ny tany, right? I sincerely hope our paths cross again and maybe we can paint a mural together. In the meanwhile, keep making art and traveling the world and broadening your horizons.
As long as there are people like you in the world, the world is worth living in.
☿
The one highlight of an otherwise uneventful journey into Boston was meeting a reporter for the arts section of the Boston Globe. If nothing comes of this, I'm blaming my e-mail's spam filter.
I think these two were just friends, not a couple. I can tell by the way they were talking about his adventures in Asia and her adventures in Europe.
He had some good points about how his mother had no idea how to order sparkling water (it's like water but it's like bubbly and stuff?) and how we should try to accept the changing world as we get older.
Penang, he says, is the part of the fork in the road Singapore didn't go down. In other words, it's Singapore minus the anal-retentiveness. He doesn't like Paris very much, even though he liked France.
I saw someone who looked like Sara, but darker skin and I didn't notice any tattoos.
The train was surprisingly empty even when getting on at Park Street. I guess it's because a train arrived four minutes earlier. I only filled out two pages in my sketchbook, and not even two pages, because I tried to draw two people together except one of them got off and I had to draw Jessica, Nicole, and Leah together. I'll probably fill in the blank spaces first.
Jessica notices that everyone has their own unique facial expressions.
♇
There I go, worrying about someone I've never interacted with or even met. I know my readers and I'm sure it doesn't sound weird to you. It's just the kind of person I am, I guess.
Amy's contemplating suicide and I wish I could say something to her to make her feel better, that I'd notice if she was no longer around.
Jessica and I were talking about other deaths in our lives. I said this before about dogs, but I think people would squander immortality. Besides, it's not about how much time we have, it's about what we do in that time.
She says that if our actions had no consquences, it would be a disaster.
Yes, like in Triceratops Summer, best to keep such a thing secret.
♆
in the audience there was a woman with sea blue hair and a poem tattooed on her back.
She's distinctive enough to remember so maybe one day I'll talk to her. Hey, it worked wonderfully with Gabriella. I saw a woman with teal and indigo hair walking perpendicular to my path. It looked really amazing. A man had purple hair.
We have, in this order, a composition that's approximately 25 hours old as of the time I'm posting this and fifteen minutes old as of the time she gave the speech, a composition from the early 19th century, a composition from the mid-20th century, a composition from the early 21st century, and a composition from the early 20th century.
This is the third of an indefinite number of adaptations of the song At The River. The first was played two years ago and the second is unheard, and will remain unheard until all the stars burn out.
Mendelssohn made pencil sketches of the Hebrides Islands. I'm blaming this in particular because the Hebrides are cold and rainy even in July.
And God Created Great Whales was instrumental, bad pun, in the Save The Whales movement. Some people from the aquarium talked about the Hovhannes piece and unfortunately, it sounded like mumumumumumu whales behbehbehbeh aquarium nuhnuhuhubuh, due to their position and the acoustics. The music sounds fine. Amazing, even.
For those of you versed in music theory, River Rush doesn't follow a specific key but contains major and minor chords from different keys. It's very chaotic, aside from the more comtemplative middle section (two solo clarinets).
La mer is not to be confused with the 1946 Charles Trenet song. They are notthing alike and the Trenet song is in no way inspired by the Debussy composition. This is the closest thing Debussy has to a symphony and therefore sounds more like Ravel than Debussy; the first movement depicts the sunrise and gamelan music, the second movement depicts waves, the third depicts Poseidon riding on a tempest and blowing his conch.
♎︎
one woman had a lily corsage tattooed on each wrist.
her companion had either "don't give more than you promise" or "don't give less than you promise." the latter makes more sense but that could be deliberate.
someone else had the cancer sigil in a mandala/chakram thingy on her shoulder blade and the gemini sigil unadorned on her other shoulder blade.
a man had an angry sun tattooed on his shoulder, and a starfall. I didn't notice it until he turned towards me to get off the train.
Jessica has an orange rose with the stem written in her father's handwriting and what looked like either a pink ribbon or a wild artefact.
♂
The environmental awareness fair is probably not happening this year but all the environmental awareness you need is "climate change sucks. this weather sucks. there aren't any butterflies or cicadas or crickets and I'm not sure if it's because I keep forgetting when they show up or if they simply can't handle this."
I was going to show off my Cats Against War shirt for the people there. But nope. Gabi and Emma have seen it already and I wasn't expecting to see Hungarian Emma there.
there's a triptych stained glass window in Emmanuel Church, which depicts the archangels Gabriel and Michael and the coat of arms of some of the allied nations (the most notable omissions are Romania and Russia) including one for France that I can't find anywhere else. It's the French flag with an R on the blue part and a F on the red part and a fasces on the white part which strangely enough wasn't removed from France's emblem after World War II. I guess it's because thy don't have an official emblem and haven't had one since 1870.
The sun on Japan's emblem is white instead of red.
α
So I guess my misadventures at the wildlife center were a premonition of things to come.
burning question: Does one render the mystery of the forest by recording the heights of the trees?
Yesterday ended not in triumph nor heartbreak, but in disappointment and further uncertainty. Gabriella wasn't around and I think it's because it rained and it wasn't at the usual rain location. I'm still hoping to see her next week. I don't think Emma's coming to these concerts.
I'd honestly take heartbreak over disappointment. At least with heartbreak I can pick up the pieces and move on. And Emma was really nice and supportive about the whole thing and… okay, we're not really close friends anymore, but that's not her fault or Alex's fault or anyone's fault really, it's just that schedules change and we're all just going our separate ways this summer.
Emma, if you're still reading this, I just want you to know that it's been really fun and I really am glad I met you. I guess this is goodbye. Goodbye for a while, at least. Boribory ny tany, right? I sincerely hope our paths cross again and maybe we can paint a mural together. In the meanwhile, keep making art and traveling the world and broadening your horizons.
As long as there are people like you in the world, the world is worth living in.
☿
The one highlight of an otherwise uneventful journey into Boston was meeting a reporter for the arts section of the Boston Globe. If nothing comes of this, I'm blaming my e-mail's spam filter.
I think these two were just friends, not a couple. I can tell by the way they were talking about his adventures in Asia and her adventures in Europe.
He had some good points about how his mother had no idea how to order sparkling water (it's like water but it's like bubbly and stuff?) and how we should try to accept the changing world as we get older.
Penang, he says, is the part of the fork in the road Singapore didn't go down. In other words, it's Singapore minus the anal-retentiveness. He doesn't like Paris very much, even though he liked France.
I saw someone who looked like Sara, but darker skin and I didn't notice any tattoos.
The train was surprisingly empty even when getting on at Park Street. I guess it's because a train arrived four minutes earlier. I only filled out two pages in my sketchbook, and not even two pages, because I tried to draw two people together except one of them got off and I had to draw Jessica, Nicole, and Leah together. I'll probably fill in the blank spaces first.
Jessica notices that everyone has their own unique facial expressions.
♇
There I go, worrying about someone I've never interacted with or even met. I know my readers and I'm sure it doesn't sound weird to you. It's just the kind of person I am, I guess.
Amy's contemplating suicide and I wish I could say something to her to make her feel better, that I'd notice if she was no longer around.
Jessica and I were talking about other deaths in our lives. I said this before about dogs, but I think people would squander immortality. Besides, it's not about how much time we have, it's about what we do in that time.
She says that if our actions had no consquences, it would be a disaster.
Yes, like in Triceratops Summer, best to keep such a thing secret.
♆
in the audience there was a woman with sea blue hair and a poem tattooed on her back.
She's distinctive enough to remember so maybe one day I'll talk to her. Hey, it worked wonderfully with Gabriella. I saw a woman with teal and indigo hair walking perpendicular to my path. It looked really amazing. A man had purple hair.
We have, in this order, a composition that's approximately 25 hours old as of the time I'm posting this and fifteen minutes old as of the time she gave the speech, a composition from the early 19th century, a composition from the mid-20th century, a composition from the early 21st century, and a composition from the early 20th century.
This is the third of an indefinite number of adaptations of the song At The River. The first was played two years ago and the second is unheard, and will remain unheard until all the stars burn out.
Mendelssohn made pencil sketches of the Hebrides Islands. I'm blaming this in particular because the Hebrides are cold and rainy even in July.
And God Created Great Whales was instrumental, bad pun, in the Save The Whales movement. Some people from the aquarium talked about the Hovhannes piece and unfortunately, it sounded like mumumumumumu whales behbehbehbeh aquarium nuhnuhuhubuh, due to their position and the acoustics. The music sounds fine. Amazing, even.
For those of you versed in music theory, River Rush doesn't follow a specific key but contains major and minor chords from different keys. It's very chaotic, aside from the more comtemplative middle section (two solo clarinets).
La mer is not to be confused with the 1946 Charles Trenet song. They are notthing alike and the Trenet song is in no way inspired by the Debussy composition. This is the closest thing Debussy has to a symphony and therefore sounds more like Ravel than Debussy; the first movement depicts the sunrise and gamelan music, the second movement depicts waves, the third depicts Poseidon riding on a tempest and blowing his conch.
♎︎
one woman had a lily corsage tattooed on each wrist.
her companion had either "don't give more than you promise" or "don't give less than you promise." the latter makes more sense but that could be deliberate.
someone else had the cancer sigil in a mandala/chakram thingy on her shoulder blade and the gemini sigil unadorned on her other shoulder blade.
a man had an angry sun tattooed on his shoulder, and a starfall. I didn't notice it until he turned towards me to get off the train.
Jessica has an orange rose with the stem written in her father's handwriting and what looked like either a pink ribbon or a wild artefact.
♂
The environmental awareness fair is probably not happening this year but all the environmental awareness you need is "climate change sucks. this weather sucks. there aren't any butterflies or cicadas or crickets and I'm not sure if it's because I keep forgetting when they show up or if they simply can't handle this."
I was going to show off my Cats Against War shirt for the people there. But nope. Gabi and Emma have seen it already and I wasn't expecting to see Hungarian Emma there.
there's a triptych stained glass window in Emmanuel Church, which depicts the archangels Gabriel and Michael and the coat of arms of some of the allied nations (the most notable omissions are Romania and Russia) including one for France that I can't find anywhere else. It's the French flag with an R on the blue part and a F on the red part and a fasces on the white part which strangely enough wasn't removed from France's emblem after World War II. I guess it's because thy don't have an official emblem and haven't had one since 1870.
The sun on Japan's emblem is white instead of red.
α
So I guess my misadventures at the wildlife center were a premonition of things to come.
burning question: Does one render the mystery of the forest by recording the heights of the trees?
