SOC Blog #3 - Pages of time and Fish.

Fish hooks grab thoughts from my tired mind. Monday morning again, another week ahead, another week gone.

The ephemeral nature of what we've termed "Time" always has fascinated me. As a kid I saw Back To The Future 7 times in the theater.... I used to have dreams about stealing the DeLorean and traveling back in time to various periods....

This morning on my way to work I listened to a performance by my old old band "Three's a Crowd". There was two songs I had completely forgotten that I had written. One was called "Pages Of Time" which still rings true with me. In fact, I'm amazed that at that age I could write something that has grown to ring more and more true with me.

The premise of the song is that we see people every day writing their histories, but the people who care about them often don't see those. Life is the things we forget to say. In listening to this I realized that I had captured this particular Page of time and had a choice now. I could leave it as it was, or I could try to decipher the chords, take it into my studio and re-record it. I'm toying with this idea as the song is particularly poingent to me, however I know it will also take a lot of care and feeding to make it into something I can be proud of.

When I think about this blog, I know that in 20 or 30 years it will also have fallen to newer technologies, lack of interest, lack of desire to keep writing it. Hell, I'll be 55 or 65 by then. Text entry will probably seem like a distant memory compared to the holographic video entries people will do.

I'm also toying with the idea of doing a daily video blog entry, but I don't know if it would be as interesting. I have the chance to edit anything here, whereas I wouldn't there. Of course this is supposed to be stream of consciousness, so I guess that would be more true to the form. I'll think about it and if you see a link to a youtube video in here one morning then you'll know I at least tried it.

I'd also encourage you to post your thoughts in the comments section. For one thing it would let me know people actually read this, and two it would help me to find future subjects to write about. Generally all it takes is one thing to get me going and then I go from Time Machines to video blogs.

The blogs will of course range from the very technical (as I am a very scientifically minded person) to the fantastically wacky. Let me attempt some fantastical wackiness now... for some reason fish seem to be on my mind this morning... most likely because I saw a show on Tuna fishing over the weekend.

Oceans gleaming surface shows blue skies reflecting. Beneath the surface lurk wonders and dangers. Lost treasures which only fill the sights of fish who have no context to their meanings. Species yet to be discovered. Somewhere right now there is a volcano forming a new island which a human being will name... somewhere there is a shark catching it's prey, cold eyes unblinking as it feeds. Dolphins frolick in the frothy waves. Surfers catching a ride before getting into their work clothes and heading off to work.

Somewhere there is a ship cruising with happy passengers and sad passengers. One of the passengers has had an unpleasant experience and is laying in their bunk while her friends go off. She found her boyfriend got drunk and decided to gamble away a substantial amount of their money. She doesn't know what this means for them, but they're half a world away on a floating island, and so she can't really do anything until they get back... and so it goes.