There I am, finally talking to David Eugene Edwards. I'm nervous and can't really say much. He seems busy. In some background thread I'm hearing talk of divorce or the possibility of; I'm sad. We're in the basement of his very suburban house. So suburban I'm confused & disappointed by it.
He is acting like he is in a hurry to go somewhere. He grabs his coat off the back of an all too ordinary sofa and looks at me as if to say "are you ever going to say anything?".
In my brain I mumble something about going out to coffee, but it comes out sounding like the speech of a deformed character in a David Lynch film. I can't even understand it.
He cocks his head, annoyed, and begins going upstairs. I reach after him and start to follow but then I hear buzzing and it's my brother on the phone asking if I want to go skiing.
Some of it I understand, just saw a Woven Hand show, friend of mine is moving out of the city, I've wanted to take D.E.E. to coffee for a long time, etc. But what about the rest of it? Or just the whole flow in general? Is there anything else to it? Does it mean anything? Or is it just my mind spewing out recent images in semi-random order to kill time while the rest of my consciousness lies dormant.
Posted by heyhansen at April 26, 2003 05:18 PMProf. Armchair's analysis:
1) Seeing D.E.E
The Woven Hand show as you've already pointed out, with your sublimated desire for He of the Veiny Forehead.
2) Talk of divorce
You'd just seen D.E.E. and the wife at HUB bickering about something, or her riding him to go on.
3) Suburbia / Ordinary sofa
Maybe the fact that you saw him at HUB sort've depressed you? Maybe you thought that he was of the ilk that worked for their high-style? Combing through vintage stores across Europe instead of buying it off the rack?
4) David Lynch film
We did see at the Climax a poster about Twin Peaks being shown there -- perhaps that put a Lynchian twist into your brainpan?
When I was a kid, about 9 or so, I read this fantastic book about a kid transplanted into another family that finds an egg-like device that lets him travel back and forth in time, and all of the complications therein. That's not the important part -- the important part is that the surrogate mother (an aunt or something) had a theory about dreams:
"Dreams are just your brain taking out the trash."
Posted by: sp at May 6, 2003 08:59 AMYeah, I had the same analysis but Sean posted it first!
Posted by: David at May 8, 2003 08:26 PM