I'm Mandrakeroot

In this moment I want to be a bird.

tardis wrote: In this moment I was just hit by the MANDRAKEROOT train.

Just keep an eye out for those weird basketballs.  Might just wipe out your fingers...

IN THIS MOMENT I AM:

In this moment i am:

In this moment you are I, and I am YOU!

In this moment I'm taking a romantic bath with Archimedes.

In this moment I'm the set of all sets that do not contain themselves as members.

In this moment I'm a future reincarnation of Iggy Pop. 

At this moment I am channeling Laurie Anderson:

"In our country you’re free, and so you’re born, and so they say, you’re free.
So happy birthday.
And even if you’re born to lose, and even if you were a complete wreck when you’re born,
You still might grow up to be the President, because you’re free.

Today you might be an average citizen, a civilian, a pedestrian,
And tomorrow you might be elected to some unexpected office,
Or sell your novel and suddenly become famous,
Or you could get run over by a truck,
And your pictures could get in to the papers that way,
Because you’re free and anything might happen,
So happy birthday.

Gee, all those lights and all those screens, the New York experience is mind-boggling.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen that many screens before, and I’ll probably come again,
It was really amazing, mind-boggling.

You’re walking, and you don’t always realize it,
But you’re also falling at the same time,
With each step, you fall forward,
Over and over you’re falling and then catching yourself falling,
And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.

Look, over there, it’s a real dog, and it’s really talking.

I wanted you, and I was looking for you, but I couldn’t find you, I wanted you, and I was looking for you all day, but I couldn’t find you, and I couldn’t find you.

Well, I paid my money, and I’ve got this funny feeling that, somehow, you know, it’s not what I paid my money for, I mean, I paid my money, and I just don’t think this is, what I paid my money, you know, what I paid my money for.

No one has ever looked at me like this before, no one has ever stared at me for so long like this, this is the first time that someone has ever looked at me like this, stared at me like this, for such a long time, for so long.

Well, he didn’t know what to do, so he decided to just watch the government and see what the government was doing, and kind of scale it down to size, and kind of run his life that way.

She said the hardest thing to teach your three-year-old kid was, what was alive and what wasn’t.
The phone rings, and she holds it out to her kid and says, “It’s Grandma, talk to Grandma.”
But she’s holding a piece of plastic, and the kid say’s, “Hey, wait a minute.  Is the phone alive?
Is the TV alive?  What about that radio?  What is alive in this room and what isn’t?  Unfortunately,
She doesn’t know how to ask these questions. 

We were all in a large room full of people, all kinds, and they’d all arrived at the same time, and they were all asking themselves that same question.  What is behind that curtain?  They were all free and they wall beginning to wonder, what would happen next?

This is the time, and this is the record of the time, this is the time and this is the record of the time…”

Laurie Anderson, USA Live, lyrics from the song So Happy Birthday, from United States Live, 1984

I transcribed them.  Yes, I know, it’s a blatant attempt to lobby for her inclusion in the Avant category on this site.



Edited by Slartibartfast - October 21 2007 at 08:27