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Pictures and words.
    #5975487 - 08/18/06 09:56 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)



I got flattened by a Mack truck in Berlin. You never think the day is gonna come and then it does – you flip the ball the wrong way, it leaves your hand and a piece of stitching catches dry skin or your nail or maybe you’re just off right then and there – whatever it is, something skews the trajectory. You’re still thinking at this point that it’s no dice, this catch is a cinch - the kind of stuff you’ve been pulling for the past month all over the continent. There’s not a doubt in your mind you’ll snatch that ball back up after one bounce off the sidewalk. You drop your body and suddenly time detaches.

You lost rhythm with the ball. The ball, man! You can’t drop the ball, but there it went, splicing off the curve at just the right angle to send it into traffic and there it rolls with a dud up against the front wheel of a Mack truck awaiting a green light. Ampelmann tells us stop, the traffic light tells the truck go, and that ball will never be a baseball again.

When you look at it, it’s as if you’ve frozen the frame on a monster home run and carved the ball out for yourself at the precise moment that it’s struck, that moment of contact that channels all the focused might of a great swinger’s fine-tuned twist to the connection point of wood and leather, ball and bat, sweet spot kissing sweet spot. Movements he performs routinely every day sync up to meet the moment, all the lines of his body align properly and his eyes focus intensely as he watches the ball for every minuscule millisecond that it’s spinning towards him, picking up the movement on the seams, devising in no more than a second’s time what he’s being pitched, where it’s going to be compared to his body, and what that will let him do with it if he does indeed take a swing. And sometimes all the minutia of that moment come together and he swings and what ripples out over the crowd is a revelation of inevitability that sweeps upward and tumbles downward in such a display that it makes everyone want to catch it.

It looks like it clicked, and got stuck. Because the moment after the freeze-frame ends and the MLB logo no longer looks like it’s being smacked off the face of the leather, the ball is still the same spherical shape that was hurled by the pitcher a moment ago. A fan might catch it in the crowd and put it in a glass box on their mantle and if you looked at it twenty years from now you would see a sphere. But my baseball looks like it’s in the middle of being whacked.

When you squeeze it, it likes to give the illusion that it could be coaxed back into its original shape, that if there was a force to make it this way surely you could find a force to push it back to purely spherical dimensions. But really, it’s stuck the way it is.

The Mack truck rolled on and the ball sat there on the asphalt, lopsided - but it hadn’t burst. There was no question as to whether or not I would pick the ball back up. I’d been carrying it for 30 days already through five countries and wasn’t about to abandon it on Danzigerstrasse all lumpy and lonely. We owed each other better than that.

Nika gasped with me when it happened. We exchanged a pair of almost mortified frowns as I scooped the ball back up midway through the street.

“Damn,” was all I could say.

It wasn’t anywhere near the disaster I thought it would be, images of – well, no images of anything really, because I have no idea what is inside a baseball! But that mystical magical core, whatever it is, was intact and still held prisoner by man, bound in leather and stitching, not strewn across the avenue like so much trash. I picked it up and tossed it around languidly at first, not trusting its new, slightly egg-like shape. But I soon realized that it was still weighted perfectly. That’s the thing about a baseball – it’s weight. It’s exactly as heavy as it needs to be. When you grip it in your hand it says, “Play with me.” But while a simple game of catch is an inviting though, you also sense it could be used to do some serious damage. If you wanted it to though, cause that’s the other thing with baseballs – they let you know the moment you hold them that they are yours just by the perfect fit it gives your hand by weighing just right. The ball wants you to do your best with it. Some excel at hurling it, others at slamming it with aluminum and wooden bats. Me, I’m a tosser. Nothing fancy, just spinning the ball up down left right and enjoying the sight of its weight after the feeling of it has left my fingers, watching it hover in midair and knowing full well from tactile experience that held aloft there is truly the incarnation of that ball, spinning where I willed it but on its own now. You can feel the weight of it just by watching its trajectory, and it spins like its begging you to do something, anything with it – hit it throw it chase it fetch it play ball.

When I picked it up, while the physical contours of the ball were different, the weight was instantly familiar and welcome. It was kind of monumental to me. My ball that I had invested so much of myself in, fell out of my reach and into the greater system where it was flattened by industry, rubber and steel on pavement, and came back to me essentially unscathed, its core intact. It was a revelation – not that it bestowed upon me any notions of pedestrian immortality though it did give me a certain sense of luck.

It feels now like more of a weapon than it did when it was spherical. It feels like a slug now, cause it looks like that’s what someone did with it I guess. It looks like it wants you to pelt someone with it now, but maybe that’s just how our human tool-using minds have trained us to think, that if something is a little pointed at either end that it could be used for destructive ends.

My baseball spins differently now when I toss it in the air. But sometimes, everything clicks, and I throw it high in the air and give it just enough spin that in its motion it assumes its natural shape once more, tricking the eyes into thinking it’s spherical until it slaps back into my palm, a misshapen lump. But it hovers, almost imperceptibly, just the same.









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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975493 - 08/18/06 10:02 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

that was the best thing i've read all morning,hah

glad you had a great time,man.despite the untimely demise of your ball:]


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: CaptainH13]
    #5975523 - 08/18/06 10:22 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)











































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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975534 - 08/18/06 10:30 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

-Question, is that the park you went biking in that you wrote about in was it denmark? anywho it looks lovely.

-Nice OMR bracelet.

-shorts? huh?

Those pictures are making me ache and green with envy. I NEED EUROPE!


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: Aninator]
    #5975536 - 08/18/06 10:33 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I never made it to Denmark but yeah that's the park with the biking...it's right outside Arnhem, in the Netherlands. It's called De Hoge Veluwe National Park.

Props to CherryBom for the OMR bracelet. :grin:

Yeah man, I totally rocked shorts for the first time in like twelve years. It was 104 degrees, for fuck's sake.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975544 - 08/18/06 10:37 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

ok yea.. holland.. i really enjoyed reading that part... seeing a picture really puts it into perspective even more. It must have felt amazing. The way it struck me when i read that was kind of like asimilar feeling in 2001 where all you could hear was the guy breathing? that sort of solitude? but like in a different setting obviously. but that's what it kinda reminded me of.

and well if 104 degree weather hadn't done it to you, i'd be worried.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: Aninator]
    #5975550 - 08/18/06 10:39 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I didn't write about that park though? I stopped blogging when I got to Holland - too fucking stoned. Unless I emailed you about it or some shit. All right, time to go have a tag sale.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975554 - 08/18/06 10:41 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Awesome scenery. I especially like the woodsy looking ones with the long paths. They all look good though :grin:


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: eris]
    #5975561 - 08/18/06 10:44 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

That wasn't the park with the bikes?


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: Aninator]
    #5975564 - 08/18/06 10:45 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Yes it was. I'll upload more pictures of it later, including the bikes, and me on the bikes.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975568 - 08/18/06 10:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Lovely Pics :thumbup:


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: carshissbymywinda]
    #5975587 - 08/18/06 10:58 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

you did write an entry about the bike park. how like you stopped at one point and you were completely alone and by yourself or something?


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: Aninator]
    #5975589 - 08/18/06 11:00 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Hey yer right, I forgot all about that. I should play catchup.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975592 - 08/18/06 11:02 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

hehehe


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975691 - 08/18/06 11:47 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Nicely written  :thumbup:
How's your book coming along?

That first pic you posted, is that from the Pergamon museum in Berlin?


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975872 - 08/18/06 01:20 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I'm gonna flatten you if you don't send me that postcard.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5975899 - 08/18/06 01:35 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

proceed with the flattening


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: sucklesworth]
    #5975927 - 08/18/06 01:48 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)



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    #5975931 - 08/18/06 01:48 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

poke him in the rib!


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975935 - 08/18/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Nice pictures.Looks like an amazing time.

You should have visited more countryside!


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: sucklesworth]
    #5975938 - 08/18/06 01:49 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I think OMR has been working out...he's looking pretty buff.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5975944 - 08/18/06 01:51 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

definitely chiseled


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5975949 - 08/18/06 01:53 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Robot: Give us a brief rundown of how your trip was (if you learned anything, if it changed you in anyway, etc..)


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    #5975976 - 08/18/06 02:04 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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This is just too fucking hilarious. I can hardly contain myself at work.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5976046 - 08/18/06 02:31 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Where all in Europe are you visiting? I'd like to plan a trip there myself but I'm not sure where exactly I'd want to go.

English speaking countries will make the top of that list though ...


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: abhi]
    #5976303 - 08/18/06 04:05 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

My trip went like this: Barcelona ---> Avignon ----> Arles----> Paris----> Amsterdam ---> Arnhem ---> Rotterdam ----> Amsterdam ---> Utrecht ---> Cologne ---> Berlin

Edit: And as far as English speaking countries topping the list aje...everyone speaks English, it's the international language of commerce. If they don't speak it fluently, you can at least get by on it.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5977417 - 08/18/06 11:14 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Robot: Give us a brief rundown of how your trip was (if you learned anything, if it changed you in anyway, etc..)




After two weeks of practice throughout the Netherlands and Germany, I finally rolled my last joint, and hopefully as an omen of things to come it was the finest piece of handiwork I’d yet performed. The twist, the roll, came quite easily on the second try, and everything looked even and smooth from the get-go. To add glory to grace, there wasn’t a smidgen of tobacco in this jibber. Nothing but Grey Area sour cream sits inside yonder paper tube, waiting to be smoked by yours truly.

I suppose what I was looking for here was patience, a virtue I think we all possess but which many of us shun. Coming from New York City, one loses sight of patience in the frenetic frenzy that flushes through the streets day and night. Now I have to prove to myself that I can change, that a vacation can change a person in all the ways they wish to change. I am here right now in this moment and that is what matters. This is my only chance. There is no reason to spend my life doing anything half-assed when this is the only shot I’m going to get in this construct of reality. I have no illusions of reincarnation into this same world, this Earth, this life. No, I feel when I die I’ll rejoin the greater Oneness in a fashion that escapes any description that subjective words might offer. When I die I will become an integrated facet of that Oneness and I will slip away. This is a gift, this I we are all given in this life. You are probably only I once. What will you do with your I?

God is not laughing at us, nor cheering us nor damning us neither. He is watching with arched eyebrows, truly curious at what it is we would do with the power of being bestowed upon us. God is an audience, hoping to be entertained and perhaps even enlightened by the time each mortal’s curtain falls. God is nothing more complicated than Life, being, going, endless. We owe it to life to contribute to life, to entertain life. And as for enlightenment, we cannot try too hard to enlighten others, we can only hope that in our actions we do achieve as much. But it is in our power to seek out our own enlightenment, wherever we think we’ll find it, and show life its own light each in our singular way. I don’t know that enlightenment can be “found” but I do know that the search for it, however vague “it” may be, is most likely more important than anything we might find at the end. The treasure is really in the treasure hunt.

Jason and I talked about epiphanies before I left. We talked about taking trips, and how travel almost makes you expect to have epiphanies. What I learned, though, is not to expect life to turn around 360 degrees in one moment. Epiphanies as we understand them exist, and they present themselves to people and people certainly have them - but anyone who sits on their ass waiting for the skies to open up and deliver them a message to change their lives is most likely setting themselves up for an existence of wry dissatisfaction. Every moment is an epiphany if you can find a way to make it one. Every object, every energy wave, every being, every subtle movement and every subtle moment of stillness is an epiphany unfolding. Have you walked by a flower, and looked directly into its face? That is an epiphany – that is life saying Hello. Have you watched a cemetery, still but for the breeze through the trees whose roots dig against the coffins dug around them? Have you watched how the moss creeps across the headstones, growing and changing at a rate of time we simply can’t perceive in passing? That is an epiphany – that is life smirking above the mysteries that surround death. Life is giving you information, you’ve just got to open up the floodgates and let it in. Broaden your perspective. Turn yourself on to the world at large.

Freak the fuck out.

I suppose if I did have an epiphany, I know what it was, and still it was not one all-encompassing moment in which I attained some level of clarity or in which some vision came to me of what I was meant to do in this world. For me the epiphany came when I realized something could change but still remain intact at its core. My baseball was flattened by a goddamn MACK truck. And yet it still floats in the air like it once did. It still feels right, warped as it is. A new game must be played with it, it’ll never be a baseball again, but it’s still a ball screaming to be played with.

I don’t trust anyone that would say they never dance around their room like a total freak now and then.

I refuse to give up on America and I’m damn disappointed in Americans who already have. America is a window into the human psyche, a place where imagination and possibility collide. It is a country of unbelievable excess compared to the other nations of the world. Europeans are plastic bag neurotics. You really have to ask to get one, and almost no one does. Everyone has special shopping bags, or just puts what they bought into the bag they’re already carrying. Makes a ton of sense. But maybe then some future Ricky Fitts would have shitty odds on catching the sight of a plastic bag tornado. Hm.


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-Erik Davis


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5977667 - 08/19/06 01:04 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

If only my jaded cynicism and nihilism could give way to such optimistic musings.  If only I could let go of the pursuit of obvious absolutes.  If only I could stop and appreciate the little things that make up reality instead of searching for the "neon sign" of undeniable truth; this obsession will drive me mad and it will taint my time upon this Earth.  I will die writhing and cursing God for leaving me clueless and lost.

I look forward to your first book....whatever it is.  Maybe it will hit me with the force of a solidly hit little-league baseball and save me from my wry dissatisfaction.  :smirk:  You had better write an opus.  I would be eternally grateful if you completely destroyed  my personal ideological fixations by refuting the unreasonable desire for great truths and coherent structures, Oh brother.  I certainly have found none of these things in this world so far, yet I still search for them.  It would be beneficial for me to break free from these unreasonable expectations of perfection. 

Perfection or oblivion...not a very good choice.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5977691 - 08/19/06 01:21 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Trying to be profound when drunk is difficult and it is always a hit-or-miss operation.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: RandalFlagg]
    #5977695 - 08/19/06 01:23 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

I was profound once... (reflects on that moment)

...yeah.


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    #5979219 - 08/19/06 06:02 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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If only my jaded cynicism and nihilism could give way to such optimistic musings.  If only I could let go of the pursuit of obvious absolutes.  If only I could stop and appreciate the little things that make up reality instead of searching for the "neon sign" of undeniable truth; this obsession will drive me mad and it will taint my time upon this Earth.  I will die writhing and cursing God for leaving me clueless and lost.

I look forward to your first book....whatever it is.  Maybe it will hit me with the force of a solidly hit little-league baseball and save me from my wry dissatisfaction.  :smirk:  You had better write an opus.  I would be eternally grateful if you completely destroyed  my personal ideological fixations by refuting the unreasonable desire for great truths and coherent structures, Oh brother.  I certainly have found none of these things in this world so far, yet I still search for them.  It would be beneficial for me to break free from these unreasonable expectations of perfection. 

Perfection or oblivion...not a very good choice.




not that i really know but i'm sure OMR doesn't stand 100% behind what he wrote... i was thinking that while reading his last post. i have the same line of thoughts occationally and even though i can articulate them and be sure of my own right/wrongs there's always the next second to prove that life is just a little more then you can explain..
so yeah he's right, like so many befor... it's about the chase right!? it's just that the catch is so far away you're not exectly sure where you're running to some times :lol:
so it might sound to you like he's making perfect sense that you can't except but only understand and agree with while really he's just like you?

we all strive to make sense of everything and keep it up when really i think all it takes it to realize that nothing is ever really clear cut. the trick is to except it and embrace the uncertenty of life... and most certenly, live! with every breath and every thought :tongue:


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5979226 - 08/19/06 06:10 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: OneMoreRobot3021]
    #5979333 - 08/19/06 06:53 PM (17 years, 5 months ago)

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I don’t trust anyone that would say they never dance around their room like a total freak now and then.




I can't dance worth a shit...but you caught me.

I really enjoyed reading this post. And while I didn't read all of your travel journal as I had planned on, what I read was interesting; I enjoyed experiencing Europe, a place I probably won't ever see with my own two eyes, through your eyes and emotions.


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Re: Pictures and words. [Re: demiu5]
    #5980899 - 08/20/06 04:38 AM (17 years, 5 months ago)

Cool posts, OMR.

I'm going to be backpacking around europe in the future, too. I'll post about it in this forum.


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