Have you ever had an unexpected mnemonic device trigger an episode from your past?
I have.
One of my roommates (either Eli or Drea, though my cash is on Eli) owns a Super Nintendo.
Of the four games we have 3 are from my top 5 all-time SuperNES games - Super Mario 3, MarioKart (the original, baby) and the Legend of Zelda.
To get to the Mountain Tower you must use the magic mirror, or I suppose la mirroir fantastique (in terms of Grant Morrison usage - a piece of ultrareality) in a certain place. I glanced at myself and fell into a rabbit hole Burroughsian memory cut-up...
soggy bowls of Reese's Pieces cereal / cool basement bunkers full of boy sweat and the gentle electric whirr of gaming systems / the daisy massacre / summer refuges / ice tea in frosted glasses /
perfect imaginal treehouses built in the willow tree of your daydreams / backyard swamps with log passageways requiring feats of derring-do / plates full of cucumber slices warmed under the broiler with cheese and ranch dressing / a junkie like need to get out of your skin and into someone else / backyard kisses / porchbound hammock grope fests / exploding barbecues / trapdoors to quiet christian basements / lounging on the floating dock with older girls with a panorama of rain/rainbow/lightning/sun/thunder/dewdrop calvalcade / skipping stones / creaky secret midnight rowboat trips / ghosts passing through drunken teenagers / 2 am soft core car wash porn via satellite / scott free cookie theft / wet towel Errol Flynn dishwashing battle / short drives for basketball sized ice cream / piles of videocassette tapes / 4670 pages in 2 weeks / Mother Nature's eskimo golden shower pummelled by hail on the docks each stone like a sharp pinch 3D surround sound gratuit lightning fireworks neon electric light lampbulb raging against night sky / marshmellow smore beach fire hot dog mayhem / early bedtime late bedtime no bedtime beach bedtime / popsicle cannonball rulebreaking chasing watergun barefoot days.
Then I turned off Zelda, and had some peach yogurt.
I have.
One of my roommates (either Eli or Drea, though my cash is on Eli) owns a Super Nintendo.
Of the four games we have 3 are from my top 5 all-time SuperNES games - Super Mario 3, MarioKart (the original, baby) and the Legend of Zelda.
To get to the Mountain Tower you must use the magic mirror, or I suppose la mirroir fantastique (in terms of Grant Morrison usage - a piece of ultrareality) in a certain place. I glanced at myself and fell into a rabbit hole Burroughsian memory cut-up...
soggy bowls of Reese's Pieces cereal / cool basement bunkers full of boy sweat and the gentle electric whirr of gaming systems / the daisy massacre / summer refuges / ice tea in frosted glasses /
perfect imaginal treehouses built in the willow tree of your daydreams / backyard swamps with log passageways requiring feats of derring-do / plates full of cucumber slices warmed under the broiler with cheese and ranch dressing / a junkie like need to get out of your skin and into someone else / backyard kisses / porchbound hammock grope fests / exploding barbecues / trapdoors to quiet christian basements / lounging on the floating dock with older girls with a panorama of rain/rainbow/lightning/sun/thunder/dewdrop calvalcade / skipping stones / creaky secret midnight rowboat trips / ghosts passing through drunken teenagers / 2 am soft core car wash porn via satellite / scott free cookie theft / wet towel Errol Flynn dishwashing battle / short drives for basketball sized ice cream / piles of videocassette tapes / 4670 pages in 2 weeks / Mother Nature's eskimo golden shower pummelled by hail on the docks each stone like a sharp pinch 3D surround sound gratuit lightning fireworks neon electric light lampbulb raging against night sky / marshmellow smore beach fire hot dog mayhem / early bedtime late bedtime no bedtime beach bedtime / popsicle cannonball rulebreaking chasing watergun barefoot days.
Then I turned off Zelda, and had some peach yogurt.
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