“You see Igby, I feel this great, great pressure coming down on me. It’s constantly coming down on me, crushing me..”
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I wonder if she wants to be my friend?
Here’s what I think, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. Everybody’s born with some different thing at the core of their existence. And that thing, whatever it is, becomes like a heat source that runs each person from the inside. I have one too, of course. Like everybody else. But sometimes it gets out of hand. It swells or shrinks inside me, and it shakes me up. What I’d really like to do is find a way to communicate that feeling to another person. But I can’t seem to do it. They just don’t get it. Of course, the problem could be that I’m not explaining it very well, but I think it’s because they’re not listening very well. They pretend to be listening, but they’re not, really. So I get worked up sometimes, and I do some crazy things.
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| — | Haruki Murakami, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle |
Ryoji Ikeda the transfinite (2011) at the Park Avenue Armory.
“Without the people it’s just a machine. It’s like a beautiful church without people.” - Ryoji Ikeda
Here’s a really wonderful video about the art and mind of George Andrus who is the inspiration for Otis in Some Days Are Better Than Others. While I could have written about George, as McCormick affectionately talked about him when we met, nothing I could compose would give you the same endearing and fun jaunt into George’s world. Otis was played by David Wodehouse, a retired cruise ship comedian, who gave a very poignant performance, but scenes in the film were actually shot in George’s house, using his set ups for the soap films, which you see in this clip.
Again, the film just opened in New York, for a very limited engagement, and seeing it, much like reading a Vonnegut novel, can make you a better human.
