It was all filled with shogun and samurai lore and stuff like that, and I always just remember this one dude who played it (an actual Korean) called Genji, or sometimes Genji-San. When we were kids we always thought that was so cool, to give someone an Asian name and add San after it. And it's just really weird cause, all these years later, and freaking Genji still comes to my mind, and the memories of him are so weird. Like, they seem like real memories but how could they be? I never met Genji anywhere except inside a bloody game but he still seems so real to me, like some long Lost cousin or something. Isn't it amazing how strong a child's imagination is?
What I find particualely inceeible about my memories of this Korean game versus one like Everquest is that the Korean game acrually seems more real to me, even though it was in 2D and EQ was 3D. I can't help but think it has a lot to do with the fact that folks like Genji used to log on and roleplay the hell out of the 2D game. It was all acrually a lot more in depth than Everquest ever was, which you'd think wasn't possible, but it's really true. Every time I drift back into the memories I get all sorts of inspiration, usually for stories set in Asian type locales. I have a few books on my phone by Asian writers. One here is called Sandalwood Death by some lady Mo Yan. I've never read it-- but definitely got it during a day remembering this day. Then too I have all the Li Po poems, some of which are really good. Jim Harrison was always talking about Li Po so I downloaded him. Li Po lived and wrote his poems well over 4,000 years ago or something. Basically in the time the game was set in…
Constant friends, although we wander,
we'll meet again in the Milky Way.
Well now I'm about to get into the shower and wash my hair and have a shave. I'm thinking of Chinese beer now and wishing I had some. Also wishing I was in Beijing preparing for a night out at some weird Chinese club. Imagine being dragged through the streets of Beijing and being killed by some China kids? Some huge gang of them. And then I see Genji-San appear and use karate to save me. He appears as a beautiful China girl thoigh, sorta like a geisha or whatever those girls are. Oh fun fun! I wanna be a geisha….
I Dunno. My writing all sucks lately. Time for a shower.
Ok I'm back and out of the shower. I gave myself a little pencil moustache cause it always makes me feel artistic and French or something. And now I'm thinking about sea lions instead of that old game in Korea. I was watching all sorts of videos last night and one of them I watched was this lady (an Asian acrually) feeding some sea lions. They really look amazing and it made me want to go see some. Then I was watching videos of dolphins who were looking at themselves in front of a mirror. I once rode a dolphin off the coast of Florida when I was only like 12 or 13 years old. One of the greatest experiences of my life….surely wish I could do it again!
Say, I don't know if I wrote it here months ago, but how about that hugr period I had where I started obsessing over buying a boat I can't afford? It sorta happened in the immediate post Jen split period. It still keeps occasionally coming to mind. I just can't imagine wha type of stuff id write if my “office” was on a bloody boat instead of underneath this old rickety house. I can imagine drinking too much rum one night and accidentally falling overboard to my death. I wonder how often that happened back on pirate boats. In addition to the sea lion video and the dolphins one, I was also watching some big old military boats crashing through waves last night...huge waves. In one of them, a person flew off, most likely to their death. I suppose it's better than dying of cancer.
Ok I'll tell y'all what would be some real fun. A recording studio on a boat. Damn! Recording some future hit album in the dead middle of the Atlantic. I'm surprised I've never heard of it before. The Rolling Stones, for example, had a recording studio in the back of a tractor trailer. I think it was fairly famous in the 70s. It was probably one of the very first traveling studios.
Who knows. I guess I’ll just go back to watching some videos of sea lions again. Io sono triste oggi.
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