in a crowd of homesick full grown children

well, i guess i finally understand the meaning of the phrase "fate came knocking." i woke up this afternoon, got dressed, ate some cereal and stuff, and went to studio. it's just ashley and i in our row today for whatever reason, so it works out well for us. and everything is just good in that sense . so we sat around and didn't do work and took smoking breaks (well i didn't smoke). then we went to ollie's for dinner which was nice. got some candy and went back to studio. tried to do some structures, failed, and gave up. so i was sitting at my desk, and i looked up as someone walked by - it was this kid that i studied with in copenhagen, all weighed down by bags. i guess it was one of those double take moments, where the context (arch school) is right, but the chronology is off. so he's on a grad school tour, UVA, MIT, columbia, etc.etc. and just stopped by studio before the open house. etc.etc.

this is all not that Big of a Deal, this isn't someone i was close to in CPH, but something about it really shocked me. like the juxtaposition of two time periods that are closely connected to each other in terms of motivation, cause, want - but not in literal terms. psychologically - copenhagen feels a million miles away. yet: i still think about it daily. more than daily - when i listen to illinois, actually all sufjan.. even just sitting in studio this afternoon, as we got into that studio workflow that i loved in copenhagen. like kind of bullshitting and doing no work but that being the point - late afternoon...

i guess this is all written in kind of nebulous language..but i guess it was the first time i connected the two eras in a literal way. one is a model for the other - recreating copenhagen, while aspiring to columbia. suddenly they were both real. what i mean is: we spend a lot of time missing past incarnations of ourselves, without appreciating the present (which we'll later miss as well). it was cool to be slapped into reality by a relic's appearance.

btw, new beirut: awesome. "nantes," "guyama sonora," and "forkes and knives (la fete)."