thinglets: The Blackout - Five Years: August 14th
I remember opening all the doors and windows (it was hot) and playing piano to the light of a candle in a Jack Daniel's bottle.
Anyone else remember what they were doing?
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I'm not even sure what you're referring to...a blackout of some kind? Wait, there was something like that in 2003...I was on a plane flying back to Canada from Europe. I was in Paris for two weeks while it was so hot. (And it was hot in a way I'll never be able to describe). My now husband and I were staying in my former prof's daughter's apartment five blocks from the Eiffel Tower. We filled her tub with ice cold water and dunked every hour on the hour. Sara (prof's daughter) bought what she called the 'last stand-up rotating fan in Paris.' It was a display one and had no cover. It whirred back and forth, and you wanted to get your face right into it but had to be careful of those whirring plastic blades. I remember getting drunk on Parisian beer and reading Alice in Wonderland for the first time in my life.
I read Alice in Wonderland in Paris in 42 celcius (120ish Ferinheit for U.S.A)....at midnight submerged in ice water.
I loved it and I hated it.
Your image of playing a piano during a blackout while a candle burned in a Jack Daniels bottle will stay with me forever I think.
That's pure poetry, man.
Thank you.
