Richard Serra

Nov 18, 2019 16:47

"Weight ia value to me, not that that is any more compelleing than lightness, but I simply know more about weight than about lightness and therefore I have more to say about it...."

I just woke up from 72 hours of nonestop sleeping and with my most awake hours, I laid in bed in the dark watching youtube videos on cooking. This is because someone is staying in our living room, and i can't very well get up at 3AM and start making ramen and obsessing over my scripts stuff. Pauls friend is also a lighting designer, a pale young Dad who I find creepy maybe because he's straight and wears sandals? I don't even know anymore.

What is a vacation exactly? My vacation began as soon as I got off the plane at Narita airport. I walked ten steps, and bought an erasible pen. Then as I waited for Paul and his brother's plane to land, I ate sushi in the airport.

From then, what did we do but an endless series of eating, drinking. Me bouncing between the medium and large chan brother, walking up around Shinjuku trying to have the best time possible. There's something about being in Japan that feels like traveling to another dimension. Like I can understand most of the signage, but not what anyone is saying, and because of the efficiency of the place, it seems easy myself right in there.

We drank so many highballs in so many isakayas where we smoked so many melvis cigarettes. I don't quite remember what we talked about, but i think in those first days all my anger towards Paul went away. I felt so free to be with them, i don't think we talked about anything important, or maybe we were, the point was I didn't care. I felt free to be as young as they always feel when they're together, and that was one of the best feelings, right up there with eating a cake in secret.
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