Feb 02, 2009 00:42
If we ever live in peace as a species and spend eternity dancing with Hawaiian leis around our necks, the being that crushes mankind will come from the caves. Years will pass and the bacteria monsters dwelling within them will get stronger and stronger and they'll come along and melt us. And won't our faces be red! Watching the Caves episode of planet Earth today has (for the first time ever) managed to justify war to me. Better killed by a bomb than slowly digested in an enzyme sack by a giant translucent worm. It also made me pity some animals on this earth. One cave contained a mound of bat dung 20 stories high and the breadth of a shopping centre thick and hissing with cockroaches. Any living thing that lands on it is eaten by roaches and mulched into shit. I can't think of a more pathetic death.
It snowed for the majority of the day and it was quite breathtaking. It took me by surprise a little. I was woken up by Matt screaming about the snow and I instinctively put on my boots and my jacket and frolicked in the garden. It was fun but the snow was thin. It's been building up throughout the day though. Jon got here about dinner time; by the time he left his footprints had been filled in. I got a little hypnotized this afternoon in Matt's room. I'd forgotten how amazing snow is when it falls and how intricate it is. It shows like no other time how many winds meet from around the world and the strange patterns they make and courses they take.
It was cool. I can't stop listening to ambient music...Though I'm not now, so I can.