Independence Day 2011

Vision of a future past

He was gripped by a sense of dizziness before the rocket even impacted. Before the flash or the shock of the shredded cell – before his final transformation into charred shard.  In the last blind beat before the cut fills with wet, at the final stroke of carnival innocence between the box-sprung lid and its shrieking clowny jack face – there settled upon him a shifting, accelerated instant in sickly pine sap trapped and congealed.    He perceived the vertiginous tilt of gravity toward the afterlife – death’s chilly breath as premonition to impending pounce – he heard the stretching reel of an audio track – a shrilly choir of helium voices.  Perhaps someone in the next room was watching the Wizard of Oz? 

Day of Rage

Play List Iraq?

A list of the music that I've downloaded (in chronological order): 


1. Air - Le soleil est près de moi (from Premiers symptômes)
2. Random Rab - aRose - (Album)
3. The Black Keys - Brothers (Album - Deluxe)
4. Band of Horses - various songs
5. Cee Lo Green - The Lady Killer (Album - The Deluxe Edition)
6. Ween - Chocolate Town - Quebec
7. Peter Gabriel - Passion: Music the Last Temptation of Christ (Album)
8. David Guetta - Memories (feat. Kid Kudi)
9. Flying Lotus - Reset EP (Album)

Then my iTunes jammed up, I had to write support and then we continue:

10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (Whole Album)  

My son flying to visit my father

Claudia and Andres were walking through the airport in Atlanta, while I was here online in Iraq - a page opened on my computer to a map of the airport and another to a map of the MARTA transit with each route and stop expanded into its own map. I had a page open to the Georgia Aquarium all the while on Google chat guiding Claudia through the airport  

"Ok, what do you see?" 

"Duty Free shop."

Ok, then turn left, and go down the escalator, take the tram, go to Terminal D, get out, go up the escalator, turn right - what do you guys want to eat? 

Ok - there's a place that sells soup next to the MARTA station. You are going to need $5.25 round trip - get the pass, it says here that it's cheaper. Take the gold line 8 stops north to Peachtree Center Stop, turn on Baker St...the aquarium opens at 9:00 - says here it's the largest aquarium in the world and that it's also in the Guinness Book of World's Records. It opens today at 9 - 6 - Adult entrance - $24.95 Child (age 3-12) - $18.95...and meanwhile she's snapping pictures with her Blackberry and uploading them onto Facebook so I am actually seeing what the soup looks  - and the weather out the window of train on the MARTA and a snapshot of a hammer-head shark floating in the blue water overhead... 

There was an article I read where Egyptians were ordering pizza online to be delivered to people protesting in Wisconsin. 

http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/02/someone_in_egypt_ordered_a_piz.html

and another where someone in Egypt named his daughter "facebook" -  

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/21/baby-named-facebook-egypt_n_825934.html

and it dawns on me that we are in fact living in the future.