The numbers are meaningless
What was music yesterday is plastic-coated vibration today
Better, but worse
Remote controlling the body
Crushing complexity
Rapidly aborted thoughts

Soft cotton blue jeans
Green grass
Wooden handle
Metal spade
Direct experience
Streaming mind

From Wikipedia:

Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, and raised by nudist communist parents.^[1] Trier notes that he was brought up in an atheist family, and that although his stepfather was Jewish, he was not religious. His parents did not allow much room in their household for “feelings, religion, or enjoyment,” and also refused to make any rules for their children, with complex results for von Trier’s personality and development.^[2] The young Lars found in cinema an outlet to the outside world through which he could learn about subjects otherwise forbidden from his study by his parents. He began making his own films at the age of 11 after receiving a Super-8 camera as a gift and continued to be involved in independent moviemaking throughout his high school years.^[3]

Wow. Sounds complicated.

After watching the patho-narcisistic-docu-drama Tarnation, The Magnetic Fields‘ album Holiday has been in constant rotation at AAIB HQ.  Threads of Stephin Merritt’s mind streaming to AAIB.

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Fixing the theme….

Emerald Tablet

1) This is true and remote from all cover of falsehood.

2) Whatever is below is similar to that which is above. Through this the marvels of the work of one thing are procured and perfected.

3) Also, as all things are made from one, by the consideration of one, so all things were made from this one, by conjunction.

Welcome to asboveisbelow.com, conduit of ideas and information, loosely connected by the mind of the creator.  I use the term “loosely” loosely.

Freydís joins an expedition to Vinland led by Þorfinnr Karlsefni. Her major part in the story is intervening in a battle between the Norse and the native Skrælingjar. The natives are mounting an attack and have driven the Norse into a retreat.

Freydis came out and saw how they were retreating. She called out, “Why run you away from such worthless creatures, stout men that ye are, when, as seems to me likely, you might slaughter them like so many cattle? Let me but have a weapon, I think I could fight better than any of you.” They gave no heed to what she said. Freydis endeavoured to accompany them, still she soon lagged behind, because she was not well [pregnant]; she went after them into the wood, and the Skrælingar directed their pursuit after her. She came upon a dead man; Thorbrand, Snorri’s son, with a flat stone fixed in his head; his sword lay beside him, so she took it up and prepared to defend herself therewith.
Then came the Skrælingar upon her. She let down her sark and struck her breast with the naked sword. At this they were frightened, rushed off to their boats, and fled away. Karlsefni and the rest came up to her and praised her zeal. – Sephton’s translation

…According to another legend, Merovech was conceived when Pharamond’s wife encountered a Quinotaur, a sea monster which could change shapes while swimming. Though never stated, it is implied that she was impregnated by it….. The sea monster could have been a foreign conqueror, coming from the sea, taking the dead king’s(Chlodio or Pharamond) wife to legitimise his rule.

“The search for the mot juste is not a pedantic fad but a vital necessity. Words are our precision tools. Imprecision engenders ambiguity and hours are wasted in removing verbal misunderstandings before the argument of substance can begin.” — Anonymous Civil Servant

village festival
cafe
torrential downpour
a hyper stimulated goth girl chattering
warnings of leaks in the awning
visitors
moist hipsters
hard jazz
young men moving furniture
cars
fish f a syndrome
arm tattooes
tight pants
flat sneakers
pay here
white square / black square
ukelele
plenty of green trees
plans evaporated
new plans fillinlg the vacuum
talks of shots
slept on the subway
joke about narcolepsy
more moist arm tatts
tight
wet red
group of indo females