this blue planet and diy
I've just had a wicked couple of hours. meant to wake up at 8am but opened my eyes to see the red glow of 11:55 staring back at me! Just had the time to get dressed when the doorbell rang and Jason was standing there almost an hour early. hadn't even had time to find my car keys, but i made us some good coffee and we chatted about the film he is making and then i rummaged in my room whose chaos i am in the process of ordering, to find the keys. Mission: wheel change.
,,,,,About two weeks ago my neighbour knocked on my door to ask me about the work i was doing on my car. "what work?" i had parked it in their driveway after i'd returned home to find Joao's beautiful v-dub camper and his friends vast white van filling ours. so, "what work?" i asked. "did you take the wheel off your car?" george says, hmmm. i'm thinking, processing this turn of events. transpires someone stole a wheel off my car and ripped down part of our neighbours wall to hold up the chassis!!!! they stole my wheel ??!!@!? (they ripped down the wall?!!? thoughtful at least, in a way...) it's an ugly wheel at that no hubcap soot black n rusting but i guess beggars aren't choosers... (though i thought theives might be..?..) so, it has taken me a while to get round to doing something about it. for ages now the plan has been to drive down with J to some beach so that he can film the burning of his puppet theatre - delayed for a while as i needed to get tax disc, and then this put a fresh spanner in the works... speaking of which that is exactly what i was lacking! and my mind runs over all the times when i was going to invest in a good toolbox but didn't... because...
,,,,,So, J had turned up to give me a hand (well, two) to put on a spare wheel (if i had one which wasn't certain) and then i was going to make us lunch. well after some hunting i located the spare underneath the rear of the car, and figured out that in order to get it we had to unscrew a bolt in the boot. right. found the jack, hoisted up the chassis and then marched to the garage to buy the spanner all fired up n ready to go got back J released the spare from above whilst i pushed up the spare's cradle from below, n I positioned it ready on its screws. we're glowing with a sense of satisfaction by this point and go to open the door to retreive the nuts that i'd left on the driver's seat. it won't open. keys.ok. o no. J's shut the boot. where are the keys? in the boot. in the self locking boot. heheheh. ok. tick tock tick. tick. tick. tock - so luckily the removal of the bolt holding the spare to the underside of the car has left a hole in the boot big enough for the keys to fall through, so i run in to get a metal coat hanger and we set to problem solving part b, i the eyes and J the hook, clitter clatter - oooaahh ... - o - .... yee-eessss - o, na, eee... (bend a bit more) ... hnnneeaa... gasp ..... ..... .... yeeaaayyy!!!! By the time we'd put the wheel back on and filled it with air we weren't just glowing we were positively neon smiles rotund with satisfaction and an earthy sense of acheivement, you'd've thought we'd built the car from scratch! Gold!
,,,,,13:50 and just enough time to chopper some veg n garlic n onion with spinach and ricotta sauce and whip up some pasta, swilling it down with talk of animation film and the recent discovery of jurassic trees in some mountain crevice. And the strange phenomenon of how the creatures that david attenborough revealed in his ground-breaking documentary The Blue Planet bear such a striking resemblance to weird and wonderful monsters formed in countless imaginations since... eons... weird... I mention how ironic it is that this planet is called 'Earth' when 70% or so of it is water (we'd been talking about adding salt to food and how cows milk contains salt which makes sense as we are 70-80% salt water inside anyways) to which Jason quite rightly points out that whilst on the surface this is true, there is still land beneath the ocean... 14:20 and J leaves. It's been a fun afternoon so far, and J's agreed to be a 'guide dog' for me for my performance art! ("I always thought that guide dogs had people inside them" J said)
Well i'm going to help out some friends with their live art now and play dead!
listening to: all the things i have to do running through my head...
,,,,,About two weeks ago my neighbour knocked on my door to ask me about the work i was doing on my car. "what work?" i had parked it in their driveway after i'd returned home to find Joao's beautiful v-dub camper and his friends vast white van filling ours. so, "what work?" i asked. "did you take the wheel off your car?" george says, hmmm. i'm thinking, processing this turn of events. transpires someone stole a wheel off my car and ripped down part of our neighbours wall to hold up the chassis!!!! they stole my wheel ??!!@!? (they ripped down the wall?!!? thoughtful at least, in a way...) it's an ugly wheel at that no hubcap soot black n rusting but i guess beggars aren't choosers... (though i thought theives might be..?..) so, it has taken me a while to get round to doing something about it. for ages now the plan has been to drive down with J to some beach so that he can film the burning of his puppet theatre - delayed for a while as i needed to get tax disc, and then this put a fresh spanner in the works... speaking of which that is exactly what i was lacking! and my mind runs over all the times when i was going to invest in a good toolbox but didn't... because...
,,,,,So, J had turned up to give me a hand (well, two) to put on a spare wheel (if i had one which wasn't certain) and then i was going to make us lunch. well after some hunting i located the spare underneath the rear of the car, and figured out that in order to get it we had to unscrew a bolt in the boot. right. found the jack, hoisted up the chassis and then marched to the garage to buy the spanner all fired up n ready to go got back J released the spare from above whilst i pushed up the spare's cradle from below, n I positioned it ready on its screws. we're glowing with a sense of satisfaction by this point and go to open the door to retreive the nuts that i'd left on the driver's seat. it won't open. keys.ok. o no. J's shut the boot. where are the keys? in the boot. in the self locking boot. heheheh. ok. tick tock tick. tick. tick. tock - so luckily the removal of the bolt holding the spare to the underside of the car has left a hole in the boot big enough for the keys to fall through, so i run in to get a metal coat hanger and we set to problem solving part b, i the eyes and J the hook, clitter clatter - oooaahh ... - o - .... yee-eessss - o, na, eee... (bend a bit more) ... hnnneeaa... gasp ..... ..... .... yeeaaayyy!!!! By the time we'd put the wheel back on and filled it with air we weren't just glowing we were positively neon smiles rotund with satisfaction and an earthy sense of acheivement, you'd've thought we'd built the car from scratch! Gold!
,,,,,13:50 and just enough time to chopper some veg n garlic n onion with spinach and ricotta sauce and whip up some pasta, swilling it down with talk of animation film and the recent discovery of jurassic trees in some mountain crevice. And the strange phenomenon of how the creatures that david attenborough revealed in his ground-breaking documentary The Blue Planet bear such a striking resemblance to weird and wonderful monsters formed in countless imaginations since... eons... weird... I mention how ironic it is that this planet is called 'Earth' when 70% or so of it is water (we'd been talking about adding salt to food and how cows milk contains salt which makes sense as we are 70-80% salt water inside anyways) to which Jason quite rightly points out that whilst on the surface this is true, there is still land beneath the ocean... 14:20 and J leaves. It's been a fun afternoon so far, and J's agreed to be a 'guide dog' for me for my performance art! ("I always thought that guide dogs had people inside them" J said)
Well i'm going to help out some friends with their live art now and play dead!
listening to: all the things i have to do running through my head...
posted by tara at 3:35 pm
1 Comments:
I'm so excited I didn't even pause to read your entry! I've been trying to figure out how to find you for the better part of the past decade. I'm glad I put up that blog. I'll get in touch with you soon. (I'll also start blogging again.)Best Wishes! -Noah
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