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You Can Dance if You Want To
by powerofwhy

previous entry: The soft parade

next entry: omg, nobody understands me, I'm so deep

Looking Glass Girl

02/17/2011


Will get back to the next part of my story soon, trying to get the flow right. In the meantime, an interlude.

A sudden knock at the door interrupted my work yesterday. If I were to find these visitors were more Jehova's Witnesses, my plan was to cough on them, scream "Run! It's the Plague!", and slam the door.

I eyed the peekhole, the shrunken periscope of our high-rent birdhouse. In the viewer was a woman with short black hair, a tapping foot, and one of those familiar faces your brain can't place.

"What's the secret password?" I asked.

"Well darling, if I told you it wouldn't be a secret, now would it?" breathed a silk voice through the door cracks like perfume.

"Close enough. Where do I know you from?" I asked as I opened the door.

"It will come to you." she said, "I know you better than you know me. Are you going to invite me in?"

"Sure. Coffee? Cough drop? Morphine? Ice cream?"

"I am fine, thanks. There is something I must tell you. You may want to sit down, this could come as a shock." she said.

"I don't shock easily. Is this like a sock-on carpet shock, or like an old testament god obliterating peasants for sneaking glances at a comely milkmaid's ankles kind of shock?"

"It's nothing that extreme. I have been watching you. Your apartment runs a specialized service in this building. All the mirrors in the main bathrooms are 2-way, behind the mirror are wall-mounted swiveling cameras which pipe data out to a web server. Those with the URL pay a fee to watch the residents in secret."

"I make a lot of funny faces in front of that mirror, it can't be particularly sexy."

"Oh, everyone does that. People pick their noses, play air guitar, sing with imaginary microphones. It's all a part of the private persona. You get used to it. Those people who don't do something silly on their own from time to time are the ones you really have to worry about. So, are you surprised?" she asked.

"Not really, I have heard that if you see space between your fingernail and the mirror when you touch it then it is two way. I was just always too lazy to unscrew the giant thing and look behind it." I said.

"I wondered why you kept touching the mirror like ET. I'm Alice. I have spent a lot of time watching you from behind the glass in the last few months because I recognized you from a Halloween party from a few years ago."

That was it! She held out a hand and I shook it. Is shaking a woman's hand the right thing to do? There is no universal greeting. Kissing the outstretched hand might come across as skeevy. Sometimes it is all done in words or nods, sometimes mummified in clorox wipes and wrapped in plastic to fend off disease. Some people are huggers. Sometimes passing a bottle or smoke is the only greeting required. In Saudi Arabia where the personal space envelope is smaller, greetings are accompanied by hummus breath and ample bacteria. So, what do you prefer?

Alice fancied a handshake with eyes like a white queen glimmer on a mad tea party, and she asked me to go have coffee on Tuesday at the nonsense shop. Coffee should be fun, reflective if not enlightening, like exploring rabbit worm hole. Traffic is constant outside our house as a spring breeze unearths mud and trash across the landscape. Joggers breathe Starbucks fog, the lonely grow colder, lovers huddle in the beaten streets. Any aberrant new friends in your life lately?

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I'm a hugger ..but only if I sense that the person is open to it.. otherwise I'm a hand shaker. but i firmly believe in greeting with a hug and wished it was normal for our culture..any culture. Maybe some day.

I'm confused. Is this all fantasy or fantasy mixed with reality? Mostly there is no difference in general, but I think you get the idea of my question.

[Evidence Of Joy|0 likes] [|reply]

Ryc: bright, eh? Aw shucks, thank you ..I'm glad you recognize the logical part of me, I think it helps me connect to men more than women. women are very emotional creatures and it can be difficult to communicate with them. I worked very hard to get through the fog of emotions and have a better grasp and balance of logic with emotional.

My versatility of nearly every aspect of my life leaves me with a range of high and low maintenance. I don't feel that I get too high maintenance but I adapt to my current situation. One day I could be staying in DC with pedicured toes and expensive clothes then the next day be in the slums of Ohio in holey clothes chatting up the drunks and crackheads. I've worked in dirty places that require more physical labor.. to ..being in corporate office and district offices mostly sitting on my ass. I don't care for stuff and things but will spend money if I have it. I am neither above nor below people and different types of jobs ..I go with what I'm given or what I want. Life is definitely interesting in this way.

<3

I just wanted to say thank you for being you and being supportive in/for my journey. Even though we're strangers it means a lot to me.. it helps me grow.

[Evidence Of Joy|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: I forgot to say, yes, I enjoyed your entry and the way you presented it. And.. maybe I have asked this before but what all drugs have you done? And what do you do now?

And you'll have to look up that info about AT, love. I am only just beginning to look into it. It's over 2000 miles long and maintained by several volunteers sites through out it. It said you only need to prepare for about a couple days worth of food at a time because there are several supply stores (I think on average every 30 miles?) where you can get that so you're not carrying so much stuff. It said on the site (www.appalachiantrail.org) that one of the biggest mistake people make is over packing and that you'd want to keep the pack between 25-40lbs. I have never backpacked but I plan to do it this year and see how I like it. My friend Stella knows a guy who hiked the whole thing and had mailed himself supplies to certain points through out the trail to pick up. I think my friend Petre would go with me, but I would do it by myself. Right now this is what catches my fancy.. I'm going to look more into it.

Jumping out of a plane doesn't scare me in the slightest. I am one to try anything really.. I never look at anything and say "hell no." like a lot of people I know. I like things that cause adrenaline rushes even just by looking at or thinking about it. including thinking about asking someone out ..but I'd rather jump out of a plane. lol I generally never have to ask anyone out either.. people get sucked in.

[Evidence Of Joy|0 likes] [|reply]

RYC: Thank you. I will be playing the Spiderbox stuff in the next show. Just had too much stuff this time. This next show is gonna have LOTS more eclectic type stuff. I'm really gonna push the envelope with the next one. That Mother cover was done by a band named Carbon 9. I know I forgot to add the official playlist for this one. Brain fart on my part.

Evergrey is one of my absolute favorite bands. There's just so many textures and layers to their stuff beyond being a metal band. And they are an amazing live band as well. There's a DVD they did called One Night In Gothenburg that really shows the band's talents off.

And yeah, I'm VERY interested in hearing what Corey could do with Slash and Duff. Big things are coming with the show. It's only the beginning.

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