In the news department, I'm still in writing and deconstructing/reconstructing songs for my forthcoming eventual record.. And meanwhile everything else... All the humdrum daily life stuff.

This morning as I listened to Ron Sexsmith describe being a songwriter and explain that he does not have an iPod and was reading further on Bev Oda and researching better car designs that get energy straight away from oil and imagining new technologies to replace "phone lines" (cf. Libya and recent Egyptian... oh my..) - The world is too small and Life is Too Short.

It occurred to me a very funny thing: I would suppose these days that the vast majority of people are using iPods and not View Masters. The iPod users would think that songs start and end on time like a machine. I should be able to take your iPod and not accounting for any kind of wind-resistance or humidity expect that Song X will last Y seconds independent of anything.

But did you know:

Once upon a time back when the Smashing Pumpkins were more popular in Canada than anywhere else on the planet on a per-capita basis, we decided to take 2 Siamese Dream CDs and play them in different players in in the house. We timed precisely the beginning of that SilverFish song (not Fish but...). Imagine someone standing in the middle of the house yelling, "T-minus 5-4-3-2-1! GO!!"

An imaginary gun goes off.

A few false starts later, we were off to the races! SilverF-sharp is playing in 2 players simultaneously with a perfectly synchronized beginning. Total success!

And you could feel the power as the house electrified like when you have speakers running throughout your whole house all running from one source.

But at around the six-minute mark, you could start to feel the time sliding and by the end, as each CD became 2 beats off, you could feel your head SPIN. It was like a Siamese Scream! (If you have ever heard cats in heat, you know what I mean. It's like razorblades across your sense of hearing.)

CD players all play at slightly different speeds. As do record players. As do cassette players.

Never mind the sound-waves that come out of real speakers. I'll leave that for later...

This is all ONE planet. Remember that you are not locked in a little bubble only caring about pre-fab boxed foods that no one grows and no one knows where it comes from. There is no such as thing as magic. But somewhere over the rainbow, there's a land that I heard of once in a lullaby.

Dream-Love-Imagine-Peace

-Mac