Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007

Always Dreaming


But I don't want to go among mad people, Alice remarked.
Oh, you can't help that, said the Cat, we're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad.
How do you know I'm mad? said Alice.
You must be, said the Cat, or you wouldn't have come here.

With nods to Caffineguy.

Sometimes I have nice dreams.

Unfortunately, it's rare because of my insomnia - and when I'm awake, I feel like I'm sleepwalking. But I daydream a lot.

And sometimes, my daydreams are just as real and just as nice when I'm up as when I sleep. I spend a lot of time in my head, you see.

No. 4 once told me that when she and I lived in the same neighborhood, she used to walk to my building, sit on my stoop, and whisper, Come out, come out...let's have some fun.

The times I did randomly come out, she thought she had magic.

In my head, she doesn't hate me, and I don't hate myself, for how I treated her.

In my head, No. 7 still reads me and thinks of me every day.

And, in my head, No 6 is wrong and my insides do match my outsides.

But you can never change what another person does or thinks. Only yourself. I know that.

Still, being ambulatory for 18 hours a day means that I spend a lot of time there. In my head, I mean.

I know, I know - what if I get stuck there? I suppose large polite men in clean white coats will take me away. Funny, sometimes I think I'm just one more sleepless night away from that. I've been up for...I don't know how long now...

Hey, you'd visit me, yeah? Shake your head with that, "Oh, so sad, he had so much promise," look on your face before you shuffle off?

But sometimes I wonder, which way is worse.

Because, you see, in my head, I'm quite happy.

Michel Gondry said, I dream a lot, but I'm not a very good sleeper.

I love that. The knowing that it's not just me.

Come out, come out...let's have some fun...

Music: one more, you're nuts
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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007

Time and Tide


(c) Aki Muira
This is a mixture of two recent conversations I had:

Her: I heard you're seeing her again.
Me: (joking) You're late. As usual.
Her: What happened?!
Me: I'd rather not say, it's complicated.
Her: Oh I'm sorry. (pause) She's come back before - twice, right?
Me: You never know, though I'm sure she's out and about with her backup plan. It's ok, she knows that I'm nobody's careful consideration.
Her: I think it's not as important that someone leaves; it's more important that there's something about you that the person misses enough to come back for.
Me: (laughing) If she did come back, it'd probably just be because she forgot something.
Her: (exasperated) Why is everything a joke?
Me: (pause) I couldn't take it any other way.

It was a beautiful day. I made some scratch, took a weird gig, got hit on a few times, had some rum - the usual spring twirl.

I'm disappointed but still hopeful.

Because you can never tell what time and tide brings.

Music: I will be your storm at seas And I'll be your sharp intake
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Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

(Not)Back in the picture

10:55:42 PM


There's a new book called Send which basically says, think twice before you do anything online as once it's up, it's there forever. This is turning out to be very disturbingly true:

I did work for a short film, Cycle, years ago. Apparently it's being shown someplace because I got a email from a girl asking me if I was the same Logan Lo.

Someone else said that she read about me from a random article in a local paper.

Weirdest is this: the original post from May 1st is in an online archive! I couldn't sleep that night so I made an audio entry but deleted the file and changed the entry because I wasn't sure if she was going to be in the picture or not.

Turns out I was right; fifteen days later, we're total strangers.

I just Googled my name and this blog showed up.

I'm getting a sinking feeling that if I ever look for a job (or a chick), I'm screwed.

I should re-think this blog, maybe...

12:06:43 AM
Music: angel in disguise Chinese-speaking girlfriend big brown eyes
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Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Telling tales

8:54:44 PM


My life/blog has turned oddly self-referential in that, when people want to know what I'm up to, I point them towards this but then again, some of those interactions become part of the blog. It's hard to explain and I'm a bit muddle-headed these days so I'm not going to attempt to clarify further.

I thought of this because I got a phone call recently asking what I was up to. I, of course, pointed him here. Afterwards, he called me back and we had another conversation that reminded of an old MASH skit regarding this:

Him: So what happened?
Me: I don't kiss and tell.
Him: Did you kiss?
Me: Can't you tell?

9:51:19 PM
Music: a different corner and we never would have met
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