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The Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Moment in Time #50 - Blue Monday B-Side
06.9.10
One or more persons during a certain period drop their usual motives for movement
and action, their relations, their work and leisure activities, and let themselves be
drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there.
It's a bike ride.
Started by user nathansnider and user theroyalacademy.
It meets every Wednesday at 8:30pm
at California Donuts #21.
We ride at 9pm.
We'll endeavor to return before the last red line trains (around midnight).
On this bike ride, you might expect:
- full moon picnics
- inconvenient passageways
- "cover" versions of other people's rides, performed with amateurish enthusiasm
- amateurish enthusiasm
- disorientation
- reorientation
- pool halls
- bowling alleys
- karaoke
- geocaching
- oblique strategies
- Oulipian constraints
- traffic median tea parties
- rivers that no longer exist
- smell tourism
- Couchwick v2.0
Furthermore:
- a medium pace (probably not for beginners; certainly not a hustle)
- about 35 miles this week!
- few stops, short stops
- but we're not in a rush; we don't need to run every light
- victory donuts!
It goes a little something like this.
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This week:
Blue Monday B-Side
Astute observers will notice that this is the second route that has had a Factory
Records–related theme. There is no good reason for that, really, except that I
like Factory Records. And, well, I guess both Factory and this ride have drawn
inspiration from situationist thinking. So there is that, definitely. But that is more
of a logical concurrence of thought (I am interested in situationism, so it is not
unlikely that things I like will have been interested in situationism) than a reason,
per se. It's not always all that planned out, you see. Sometimes it just happens.
But have you listened to New Order lately? I mean, really listened? Sure, sure,
Joy Division are the ones who get most of the glory, because, you know, they
have that whole "rock 'n roll suicide" thing going for them. And they have the
pain and the torment and the sturm and the drang. And New Order, at their
height, they had flashing disco lights. They had 808s. And that is maybe harder
to get behind. At least, harder in that instinctual, gut-feeling, make it a part of
you sort of a way. Yet at night, in the dark, with flashing lights and moving
bodies, New Order will really take you somewhere. Kind of like a bike ride does.
But have you noticed that I haven't said where we're taking you?
Untrue.
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PLEASE NOTE: For the third week in a row we have a long one. So, again,
we will be leaving on time. Be there by nine or get left behind.
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Tell me now, how should I feel?
Certain shifting angles,
certain receding perspectives.
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