houses settling and unsettling
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zeppomarksPaul and I headed over to Tre's new house last night with bread, salt and wine to make an obscure Frank Capra reference.
It is a marvelously weird little Bungalow in the shadow of Stone Mountain and as I wound through the rooms on the grand tour, I let the feel of the place permeate my consciousness. I felt vaguely disconnected somehow, like I was a ghost haunting up the place.
The room upstairs did nothing to dissuade my current theme. The stairs leading up to the room were completed by a person with few or no math skills and it was necessary to turn your feet out like a duck in order to scale them. It was a later addition with attic style cropped ceiling, and railings clinging to the stairwell that had clearly been taken from a gothic church. Small doors were on each side of the room leading to dark attic storage tunnels. Inexplicably I imagined rows upon rows of Tupperware inside, "Perfect for keeping those dismembered body parts fresh for days!"
Some angsty teen left scores of Metallica lyrics scrawled into the plaster, so future generations could confirm they were an idiot.
After practically repelling back down the dangerous face of the spectacularly bad staircase we all sat around on the floor in the living room and ate Dollar Chinese from Styrofoam trays. The radio was on in the kitchen and the DJ had just played Green Day. It was the first meal in the new house and we all smiled at each other with Kung Pao chicken stuck in our teeth and I finally started to feel a little less like an apparition.
Then a man crashed his airplane into the mountain.
It is a marvelously weird little Bungalow in the shadow of Stone Mountain and as I wound through the rooms on the grand tour, I let the feel of the place permeate my consciousness. I felt vaguely disconnected somehow, like I was a ghost haunting up the place.
The room upstairs did nothing to dissuade my current theme. The stairs leading up to the room were completed by a person with few or no math skills and it was necessary to turn your feet out like a duck in order to scale them. It was a later addition with attic style cropped ceiling, and railings clinging to the stairwell that had clearly been taken from a gothic church. Small doors were on each side of the room leading to dark attic storage tunnels. Inexplicably I imagined rows upon rows of Tupperware inside, "Perfect for keeping those dismembered body parts fresh for days!"
Some angsty teen left scores of Metallica lyrics scrawled into the plaster, so future generations could confirm they were an idiot.
After practically repelling back down the dangerous face of the spectacularly bad staircase we all sat around on the floor in the living room and ate Dollar Chinese from Styrofoam trays. The radio was on in the kitchen and the DJ had just played Green Day. It was the first meal in the new house and we all smiled at each other with Kung Pao chicken stuck in our teeth and I finally started to feel a little less like an apparition.
Then a man crashed his airplane into the mountain.
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Date: 2003-09-17 01:18 pm (UTC)I got it.
johnny cash jesus christ and
Date: 2003-09-17 01:56 pm (UTC)Re: johnny cash jesus christ and
Date: 2003-09-17 05:02 pm (UTC)Re: johnny cash jesus christ and
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Date: 2003-09-17 01:56 pm (UTC)Several things...
Date: 2003-09-17 01:25 pm (UTC)2) TRE GOT A NEW HOUSE? Did she buy it? Did she move because the old house finally became so small it got to be a residential sigularity?
3) It's pretty likely that the man crashing into the mountain was a warning to Tre...something like, "Oooooo...Don't live here because we're gonna dive bomb the house to terrorize you *SPLAT!*."
Tell her that if she moves now, the terrorists have won.
Re: Several things...
Date: 2003-09-17 02:00 pm (UTC)you're next!
Yes, she just closed on Monday before last and it is a cool damn house, probably more than twice as big as the one she has now.
It rocks my socks right off.
I am going to go with the World according to Garp take and say her neighborhood is pre-disasterized
Here is something weirder - Mickey and Veaya closed on their house last week to and aer moving in this weekend.
Ahh...
Date: 2003-09-17 05:13 pm (UTC)Re: Ahh...
Date: 2003-09-17 07:10 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-17 01:28 pm (UTC)as always, you've made me think. thanks.
i'll be looking at my Tupperware a little differently now, too.
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Date: 2003-09-17 07:14 pm (UTC)As for your tupperware, just throw out the ones that don't have a good seal.
You are more than welcome.
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Date: 2003-09-17 08:05 pm (UTC)except Enterprise is on now, so maybe in an hour or so. :)
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i read the first part and said to myself "uh, they do that in it's a wonderful life..." and then had to look it up on google to make sure i was getting it, and that that flick was connected to this "frank capra" person.
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Date: 2003-09-17 07:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-17 01:44 pm (UTC)That would have freaked me out.
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Date: 2003-09-17 07:17 pm (UTC)It sounded like a truck bay door getting pulled down, at least that was what I thought it was. We were talking and then we heard sirens and I felt like something was wrong and Tre's sister got a phonecall from her boyfriend who told us.
It was a terribly surreal moment for me.
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Date: 2003-09-17 03:02 pm (UTC)Always sad to lose one, but a careless pilot seems to weed themselves out. Chance takes care of the rest.
Sounds like that house has a ton of personality..
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Date: 2003-09-17 07:20 pm (UTC)The house is really pretty neat - it needs some work, but I think that makes you love houses more.
I am helping her clean/paint on Sunday.
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Date: 2003-09-17 07:23 pm (UTC)It's illegal to do acrobatics over populated areas too : (
Lucky girl to have your help.. she might find herself with some ultra neat checkered ceilings!
?!? Did You Really Mean...
Date: 2003-09-17 04:57 pm (UTC)Re: ?!? Did You Really Mean...
Date: 2003-09-17 07:22 pm (UTC)They hit right on the Southside.
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Date: 2003-09-17 10:58 pm (UTC)In case you're wondering what the Hell I'm talking about, there's a guy who (I think) gives aerial tours of Stone Mountain in a biplane - he flies over my parent's house a couple of times a day.
Mostly it was the comment about "acrobatics" that made me think this, as I don't think those Piper Cub planes or whatever are the type for doing that sort of thing.
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Date: 2003-09-18 05:36 am (UTC)It was a cessna and you are correct about that, you can't get very acrobatic in those, which is why I suppose he ended up into the mountain face.
I love that biplane guy. I have always wanted to cough up, what is it? 50, 75 bucks? and get a ride in that plane.
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Date: 2003-09-18 06:48 am (UTC)Wanna help me paint? :)
I heard about the accidental mountaineer. The people on the ground thought it sounded like it was having engine trouble, but like you, my first suspicion was suicide.
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Date: 2003-09-18 08:33 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-09-18 08:48 am (UTC)I too have heard of this elusive and vague Sunday "thing." You'd think that they were trying to move into a new house with an infant and new jobs or something, huh? Geez. :)
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Date: 2003-09-18 09:49 am (UTC)