Tag: schizophrenia

7. Interpreting the Interpreters

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“Who is this God that keeps sending wounded messengers? Is this God deranged? Or are the codes getting scrambled in some kind of cosmic game of telephone?“

0:00 —The Day the Sirkis Took Over

01:00 —Crow-nies in the park

03:27 —Notes on the stenographer and the sign-language interpreter

09:03 —Escape from Reality Island: memoirs of a night logger

12:23 —Notes on the unreality show

17:52 —The child knows what no one can unknow…

21:10—The old man dream

22 Minutes

“Unseen Forces” and “Following” by Justin Walter, “Kontakte” by Karlheinz Stockhausen, “Spiral Insana” by Nurse with Wound, “Untitled” by Constance Demby, and “Pathologically Bored” by Deru

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6. Sound Reasoning

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“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

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3. TMI

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“A street person on a street corner is screaming street words—words that aren’t words, though they come into sharper focus whenever someone walks by.”

00:00 —TMI

01:46 —A sci-fi writer and a scientist disagree about dystopias…

03:55 —TMI

05:42 —A broken TV (signs of reality at the electronics store)…

07:59: —TMI

09:36 —A noise coming from the news anchor’s ear piece…

10:45 —Street Words

15:03 —TMI

16:27 —Stranger’s MacGuffin and the coming of the Roboroach…

21:20 —TMI

24:30 minutes

“Disintegration Loops” by William Basinki

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