The Free Design #2

Someone slept over at our house last night. I heard them coughing in the front room in the dark and saw the sleeping bag in the morning but no sign of who they were. I think I know who it was though. I think it was Laetitia Sadler from Stereolab. Yes, now that I think about it I’m sure it was her on our couch. The band canceled their gig last night at the Wonder Ballroom as they were stuck in the snow in northern California. I’m not buying it though. I think that they wanted to hang in a motel in Redding and watch the Oscars. Then, realizing that the Oscars were lame this year they split out in the middle of the night and drove north making it to Portland in the wee hours. From there they had to split up so as not to over run any one particular household as they crashed out for a few hours and Laetitia drew the short straw and got our couch. I’m quite sure that’s how it worked.
The spaceship will have to wait until Wednesday to blast into orbit on a tone burst of sound. That’s when the Stereolab re-schedule is set for. We’ll see if they make it as they are in Vancouver the night before and Denver the night after. That’s a major bugger in the system if they come all this way. That’s miles out of the way. At least Laetitica slept over for a few hours last night.
Now I’m sitting at a café and about to go paint for the next 13 odd hours. The sun is bursting everywhere outside just in the same way spring is. I’m thinking about spaceships and music and how the two are really one and the same. Both can take you out to universes that you didn’t quite realize existed. Or, rather, parallel universes that you had a feeling existed but had resigned yourself to never visiting this lifetime round. Then suddenly you leave the pleasant confines of this thin layer of atmosphere and away you go. Wormholes though time and space really do exist. If spaceships can’t take you there music can. On Wednesday night at the Wonder Ballroom we’ll see about going to the 4th dimension.