Who the Fuck is Jeff Moulton?
I knew a guy once back in Alberta when I was much younger. I was so in awe of him and the star I always thought he would become. Well needless to say he grew up and I didn't really see him again. I went off to my arts high school and got very in to all of my performing. Then I heard he stopped by a party for one of our shows with a leopard
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I just watched amovie called WAKING LIFE yesterday and I dunno if you've seen it, and I dunno if this piece of the script will help you at all, buT i thought this might help give a little perspective.
The movie's simply about aguy who runs into people who share shome amazing philosophies and thepries with him, and this is the one that really struck me. From a charachter know as "Blonde Girl":
"Creation seems to come out of imperfection. It seems to come out of a striving and a frustration, and this is where I think language came from. It came from our desire to transcend our isolation and have some sort of connection with one another. And it had to be easy, when it was just simple survival, like you know...water, we came up with a sound for that, or sabre-toothed tiger right behind you!, we came up with a sound for that. But, when it gets really interesting, I think, is when we use that same system of symbols to communicate all the abstract and intangible things that we're experiencing. What is frustration? or what is anger? or love? When I say "love," the sound comes out of my mouth and hits the other person's ear, travels through this Byzantine conduit in their brain, through their memories of love, or lack of love, and they register what I'm saying, and they say "Yes, I understand," but how do I know they understand? Words are inert; They're just symbols; They're dead. You know? And, so much of our experience is intangible. So much of what we perceive cannot be expressed; It's unspeakable. Yet, when we communicate with one another, and we feel that we have connected, and we think that we are understood, I think we have a feeling of almost spiritual communion, and that feeling might be transient, but I think it's what we live for."
So, there it is. I hope it makes you think.
Sean :)
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