Secret Vespers » future http://secretvespers.com by Patrick Edwards-Daugherty Thu, 02 Feb 2012 16:41:43 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 play music neither of us has heard http://secretvespers.com/2009/12/30/play-music-neither-of-us-has-heard/ http://secretvespers.com/2009/12/30/play-music-neither-of-us-has-heard/#comments Wed, 30 Dec 2009 19:23:22 +0000 Somerled http://secretvespers.com/?p=1342 The decade has changed us. We ride the subway like zombies, staring into space while our earplugs sing us songs we know by heart. Back home, back online, we flip through the avatars of people we have not seen in years, if ever. In text messages, in status updates, we pretend to be profound, represent our emptiness as brevity and wit, all of us chasing that high of recognition, all of us wanting our cut, our spot in the culture, our drug.

I have been grounded by fear. Any one of us could be the terrorist. And though we fight against the extremes of opinion and tactics, isn’t it delicious how the mainstream, the everyday commute, the engineered food and plastic computer are killing us? It is a quicksand, to struggle against it just swallows us faster.

All I want today is to turn the noise off, sink into a couch and play music neither of us has ever heard. I want to consign the cynicism of the world to others, and simply walk with you a while. I want to stay up all night making stories for you and forgetting them. I want a rebellion of the one real friend versus the eight hundred, of the private moment versus the public, of the things loved and forgotten against the clung-to, of the sensed and felt versus the reported.

I want to get to know you through the music you love, the books that have changed you, through your most fleeting and foolish fantasies, and through my own five senses. I want to know the you who has stayed up too late, gotten too drunk, indulged in too many daydreams out loud, and is not worried about how she comes off. When the end comes, I promise I will not care exactly where we all went wrong.

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I can’t even imagine what today’s installment would have been if things had gone differently. My Twitter friends page is a wall of hope and optimism.]]> things are looking up

I can’t even imagine what today’s installment would have been if things had gone differently. My Twitter friends page is a wall of hope and optimism.

]]> http://secretvespers.com/2008/11/05/at-last/feed/ 10 Eclipse http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/11/eclipsed/ http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/11/eclipsed/#comments Mon, 11 Aug 2008 05:05:09 +0000 Somerled http://secretvespers.com/?p=342 I like disaster movies with no pretense of a plot

Would you rather it mattered what we do, if the outcome is doomed anyway? We are all going to die.]]> I like disaster movies with no pretense of a plot

Would you rather it mattered what we do, if the outcome is doomed anyway? We are all going to die.

]]> http://secretvespers.com/2008/08/11/eclipsed/feed/ 14 Harlequins, Part 3 http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/25/harlequins-part-3/ http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/25/harlequins-part-3/#comments Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:05:51 +0000 Somerled http://secretvespers.com/?p=327 the romance of urgency

So many new substances are being invented that combine so many of the properties of existing substances, it’s an age of mash-up. It’s also a feeling I get; try anything, break things, do things that are hard. This is the third in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/]]> the romance of urgency

So many new substances are being invented that combine so many of the properties of existing substances, it’s an age of mash-up. It’s also a feeling I get; try anything, break things, do things that are hard. This is the third in a series of six installments beginning here: http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/21/pieces-part-1/

]]> http://secretvespers.com/2008/07/25/harlequins-part-3/feed/ 3 The Hand http://secretvespers.com/2007/12/03/the-hand/ http://secretvespers.com/2007/12/03/the-hand/#comments Tue, 04 Dec 2007 04:12:48 +0000 Somerled http://comicpress.secretvespers.com/2007/12/03/the-hand/ will all the cybernetic people please raise a hand

I guess we have to trust that after we have written software that does what we do, replaced our organs and body parts with wetware that does more, and have regulated our moods and focussed our intelligence with drugs, that we really will be in a better place. Do you think so? Do you secretly [...]]]> will all the cybernetic people please raise a hand

I guess we have to trust that after we have written software that does what we do, replaced our organs and body parts with wetware that does more, and have regulated our moods and focussed our intelligence with drugs, that we really will be in a better place. Do you think so? Do you secretly hope not?

]]> http://secretvespers.com/2007/12/03/the-hand/feed/ 14 The Last of the Fuel http://secretvespers.com/2007/05/28/the-last-of-the-fuel/ http://secretvespers.com/2007/05/28/the-last-of-the-fuel/#comments Mon, 28 May 2007 23:20:12 +0000 Somerled http://comicpress.secretvespers.com/2007/05/28/the-last-of-the-fuel/ they should make holidays from technology

When the power goes out it gets so quiet and so pleasant. Maybe someday the power will go out forever. Will you dare to eat a peach? I know I will.]]> they should make holidays from technology

When the power goes out it gets so quiet and so pleasant. Maybe someday the power will go out forever. Will you dare to eat a peach? I know I will.

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