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So this weekend was pretty good. A friend of mine was in town and so we checked out Craig’s band Humngo Ginormous and it was a fun show. They’ve got some incredibly entertaining lyrics, my friend Jackie was enthralled. My personal favorite was gangsta dinosaurs, but they had a lot of really sweet songs. If you missed out on the show, I’d suggest checking out myspace cause they’ve got two of their songs on there so you can see what they’re like. But the really interesting part of my night happened to take place at Snowden Pond
If you’ve never been to Snowden Pond it’s a large pond, small lake, body of water next to
Mary
Washington
Hospital. You can get there by a series of bike trails, or you can park by the hospital. Anyways, we got there around 9: 30 at night and we were looking at the reflection of the lights from the buildings behind the pond and the proximity of the lights to each other gave the illusion of a city being reflected in the water. It was an interesting moment where illusion and reality converged. It reminded me of the Golden Compass series. A hole in time and space, it looked like we were looking at another world. The presence of that illusion, I felt made that a “real moment”. It’s funny to think of the paradox of needing an illusion to make a moment real. Life’s like that though, you need a healthy dose of both to sustain a healthy life. It’s just a question of looking for that balance,
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Thanks man, Waldo thanks you too. I love Snowden Pond and those trails. Another really cool place is up by the Alumni Center, not really an illusion, but its view of downtown can be really great at sunset.
Comment by Craig 04.01.07 @ 6:09 pm