9. My Selfie Hurts

“Having been enlisted to take a picture of the happy pair in front of the city, to serve as social media trophy and prosthetic memory, I suddenly feel the weight of my duty. Maybe this is to document a special anniversary. Perhaps it’s his birthday. After briefly familiarizing myself with the gadget, I hold it at eye level.”

0:00 —Intro (Ghost in the machine)

0:39 —Photographing a couple at lookout point

05:13 — “The suspense is killing me.”

06:44 —More night trouble with the troubled neighbor

11:41 Minutes

“Baby” by Justin Bieber, “Unseen Forces” by Justin Walter, “Poa Alpina” by Biosphere  and “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion

6. Sound Reasoning

“The real problem is that his problem is real. His screams of pain are real, making the electric ray gun as real as anything else. This is the real problem because it leads to the next problem, which is that the ray gun is not real for his neighbors… or management… or, I assume, the vast majority of what the Greeks called the koinos kosmos, or shared world….”

0:00 —Math homework with Ted Bundy

01:33 —Junk mail (“Have you seen me?”)

09:55 —The new neighbor at night . . .

17 minutes

“Gymnopédie No. 1” by Erik Satie, “1979” by Deru, and “Blown-Out Joy from Heaven’s Mercied Hole” by A Silver Mt. Zion