By Etienne Van Bart
“Ian Ithsmith”! Ms. Christmas! “I know how to make a holiday last longer,” he said, and started moving in slow motion. Out at sea, convicts on floating chairs seated around a table eating their last breakfast, wondering who’ll be the first to lose a leg. Felix has sunk in his deckchair, so destroyed. Water melons genetically engineered to look like that square, patterned pillow. That light brown patch of sunlight on the canopy is in the shape of a scorpion!
The MD cable works! A music video that starts with me and Felix finding this out, then heading to the beach with everyone. A single take. With the majestic canopy looking down on us…Coming over this perfectly round hill…Walking along this beach path in single file, with the camera passing over each great conversation but not necessarily giving it time to resolve before moving on…the view of the sea looks oddly compressed.
When I bounce, the world bounces too!...The Macbook’s bitten apple logo reflection on the coffee table: would make for a stylish photo for an ad…Better to try get some of this down.
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Jerry is pulling so hard he looks like a rocket about to take off! The balcony is brilliant! So many variations of green in the canopy. Hey, the colour of the Earth from afar must be the average colour of all things on the Earth. Must remember that one. Bruce Willis’s wife as his wingman at a Pokemon –themed kid’s party! Shit! What was I thinking before that?..A boxer called ‘Seven Tieps’ who always floors his opponents seven times before they are finished…What colour are protons?
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A young writer seated in front of a lagoon on a half – submerged bench, watching a flock of seagulls rising above a forest, and imagining himself seated at a desk on the far shore, clutching helplessly at hundreds of papers as they blow away in the wind.
