January 23rds (Smooth Blue Lake)

1/23/1998

Unabomber pleads guilty—life in prison without parole. What will they do with his little cabin? 

[The cabin was made into an installation/conceptual piece by artist Richard Barnes].   

1/23/1999

Spilled a glass of water on this diary, disaster!!

At studio: played new scratch piano part on Smooth Blue Lake. I'm still attached to the old version that had that floating feel to it, but I can't find a way to adapt it to the song form. songs need room so the lyrics can breathe.

Diagram: the strata of human thought.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[1/23/2025: At the dawn of the web I was seeing how it could change our collective psyche, and that we would live in the slippage between human and machine].

1/23/2001

Dolly Parton: “I look so artificial but I'm so totally real.”