Walk away from your dreams?
Apr. 21st, 2004 11:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
squirmelia
The little girl twirled, and then wildly bounded past the boathouse, disturbing the castle's reflection crackling on the water that I was taking photographs of. She stopped for a moment and said the words, "walk away from your dreams." When the little girl and her family ahead of her disappeared from sight, possibly towards the daffodils, my mum asked me what the girl's words were that we had heard earlier. I told her, feeling a bit sad and definitely contemplative, as we walked away from Scotney Castle.The picture did not appear in my dreams though: Part of a tree in Eynsford that ignored barbed wire to the extent of growing over it.
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Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-13 05:18 am (UTC)Therefore you are not anyone who I have seen on the 47, such as the guy who wears blue and has also been seen dancing to Tool at Metal Nation, nor Toby who once said words to the effect of "I'm not on your bus anymore," to me at the Dungeon. You didn't fit either of their descriptions anyway, but I thought I should check.
>so your bus stories are safe for the time being.
Maybe I should print them out and hand them to people on the bus, so that they can see what I write about them.
>We've never really spoken, I was around when u met han hapynooodlegirl and said hi and stuff so maybe that helps? :)
>I think lots of people were dancing to schismm or something and then they put on a song from undertow and everyone bar me
>and u left the
Ah, I think I vaguely remember at least. :)
>I'd be more than happy for weeds to grow up through the concrete
It is not deliberate that I sit underneath a missing roof tile in my office, but it might come in very useful if the weeds could grow downwards to rescue me.
>get to throw beans at all the potential jacks out there trying to
Best to start saving up beans just in case, although explaining to your work colleagues that you keep a pile of say, kidney beans next to your keyboard just in case the weeds start to grow might confuse them.
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-13 08:11 am (UTC)Well at the moment i've got a box of fizzy cola worms next to my keyboard to keep me safe from potential intruders.. although in their infancy not as effective as beans, it appears time has played an evil game with them and turned them into industrial strength cola worms with super strong congealed sugar skins that would give any bean a run for it's money
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-13 08:37 am (UTC)I believe it was a different Toby, since he used to actually take the 47 and frequently seemed to race me through the subway (http://jodi.freeshell.org/subway.jpg).
>game with them and turned them into industrial strength cola worms with super strong congealed sugar skins that would give any bean a run for it's money
Excellent! Do you think that if I prise the buttons out of remote controls, they would do instead of beans? Or should I just throw the remote controls?
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-14 02:19 am (UTC)If you're wanting to use rubbery buttons then you're gonna have to be a great aim, as there are only a few places you can ping them to have any effect! a remote control would be a much more viable weapon against the invading swarms of jacks.. but then wouldn't that stop you remote controlling whatever it is you remote control?
My memory fails me, was there actually something at the top of the bean stalk in the story? or was jack just being a nosey parker.. :)
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-14 03:26 am (UTC)Do you know of much good graffiti art in Southampton?
I don't have anything to actually control with most of the remotes, since they're just left over from projects I worked on. Maybe I could control the Jacks with them, if the Jacks can be tuned.
There was a giant and a castle at the top of the beanstalk, and possibly a goose that laid golden eggs. I expect there are such things at the top of the clocktower also.
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-14 05:11 am (UTC)Well I spoke to one of the guys that did that subway, he said that he was at a graff bash in totton where they put up a blank wall and it's like a competition.. and a guy spotted him there and employed him. They work for soton council doing projects like the subway and maintaining them and so on.. he said there are a couple more around, I think I spotted one out past shirley as we drove over it, looked quite different to this one but had the same kind of quality look to it, maybe i'll go on a hunt the subway day when I eventually get a camera and pass my driving test! perhaps there's some info on a website somewhere ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/southampton/features/graffiti/graffiti1.shtml
yes there is, and it seems soton common will be on my graff-tastic adventure tour :)
I do definately remember a giant, and a golden egg laying goose did spring to mind, but I thought it was part of another story.. hmmm. So i guess if the weeds did come and take me up into the clouds, i'd become a giant? I could probably live with that, and a castle would be pretty cool, although the golden egg laying duck would get quite annoying.. unless maybe I used the eggs to fend of the jacks? as that is probably what they're after in the first place, and i can't imagine much other use for a golden egg in a castle in the clouds...
Have u ever been up to the clock tower? my old college had a very similar one, but we could never seem to find the door however hard we tried. I think it was behind a bookshelf, but never had the time to test all of the books to see if they would reveal a hidden passage. perhaps a book in the library beneath the tower will let you up?
:)
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-14 06:07 am (UTC)Cool.. I wandered around some of the subways of Southampon and then tried writing a piece about the different subways, but I never finished it, and some closed down. The one closest to where I work has planets on it, that seem vaguely educational, which is weird, since it's in practically a wasteland (well, golf-courses, busy roads, and litter-strewn streams). It's not the same style as that other one though.
>on my graff-tastic adventure tour :)
Let me know if you find any good ones!
>i guess if the weeds did come and take me up into the clouds, i'd become a giant?
I'm not sure you'd actually become a giant, but you'd get to live in the giant's castle, which would indeed be cool, until you realize you can't reach the cupboards/windows/whatever a giant might keep in his castle.
>i can't imagine much other use for a golden egg in a castle in the clouds...
Maybe the golden eggs are superior to normal eggs in egg-rolling competitions?
>perhaps a book in the library beneath the tower will let you up?
I've never been up the clocktower, so maybe finding the right book is the way. Either that or being handcuffed at exactly the right time in the adjacent police station.
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-17 02:57 am (UTC)The bit
It's amazing what you see when you open your eyes :)
It's so unfair that society represses and frowns upon these things, still they always manage to prevail, no matter what anti-art measures are taken :)
Re: Hi
Date: 2004-05-17 03:13 am (UTC)I found an alternative map of architecture when I was in London at the weekend, and there were some supposedly good grafitti places marked on it, but unfortunately I didn't have time to see them. Maybe I will next time I'm there.