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I was thinking about Cody's tattoos yesterday. The one on his back with the naked girls and wings and stuff. I was thinking about how it's all very elemental. Like, if I had to associate him with an element it would have to be air (obviously I'm talking about the wings and not so much the naked girls) Actually, now I'm thinking maybe it's not so much about the air, or the sky so much as something that's generally upwards and empty. Something about nothingness , emptiness and possibility.
Then I thought about myself and my natural affinity towards water. I like how it it can be this vast oceanic laviathan-like thing and yet at the same time it can be just completely, terrifyingly empty. Basically, I see it as this massive something and nothing at the same time.
It's kind of embarrassing, but when I watched Dancer in the Dark the other day, the part when Bjork tells Jeff that she is going blind - Jeff asks/sings "But you've never seen Niagara Falls" and Selma answers,"I have seen water it's kind of the same"- shit I nearly cried. There's something about the simplicity of that answer that really got to me. (obviously)
Esther calls people like us, "Water Babies" I kind of like that. I don't really know what that means, but I kind of like that.