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Lava Lamps

13 Saturday Dec 2014

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Music isn’t really about melodies, notes or lyrics.  Sure, those are an important part of the songs.  For some people, they might even be the most important parts.  But music has this remarkable ability to transport you from wherever you are to wherever you first noticed a song.

You could be cleaning the kitchen and suddenly transported back to the dance floor of a wedding, ready to rock the best you can in a white dress.

Or sitting at a computer in the dead of winter, and sent back to a summer campfire, watching the sparks fly.

You might be driving home from work, and find yourself back in your aunt and uncle’s living room, sneaking off to play in the attic.

A misplaced Christmas tune could send you from sunny fall to a frozen lake past midnight.

You might be alone in universe, yet surrounded by a thousand concert goers screaming the same lyrics.

Or you might even end up back in your parent’s basement with kool-aid jammers, sleeping bags and your best friends.

Lava lamps are still good.

The Escape

09 Tuesday Dec 2014

Posted by lexilogical in Odds and Ends, Ramblings

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I’ve always wondered if it was possible to just opt out of society. We have all these rules in place, from federal law right down to social etiquette, telling us how to act, what to pay, and what we can and cannot not do. Practically inescapable in this era, really, but these laws were really a recent thing.

Canada is the 2nd biggest country in the world, and yet we’re also extremely under-populated. I’ve heard once you get far enough north, you stop even having roads to travel on, and you need planes to get to the towns. The idea fascinates me, that there might just be an edge to the “civilized” world. The backup plan has always been to go find that edge and just start walking.

It shouldn’t take much to start from scratch. If you don’t have bills, you don’t need a job. Money is only good if other people have what you need. A good spot away from prying eyes and it can’t be that hard to build a shelter and grow a garden. All it needs is time.

Really, the whole plan comes down to time. And money, but the two are really interchangeable. Society has built this strange catch 22 for us all. We have a thousand ways to save time, but they all cost money. The only way to get money is to have a job, so that in the end, you’re spending all your money to save time, and spending all your time to make money.

The rest of the world can keep it’s imaginary numbers and squares of coloured paper. I’ll pay for my goods in hours and minutes.

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