Ira wishes he had more time for 43things
except, AS USUAL, I CANNOT FOR THE LIFE OF ME REMEMBER. I’m EXPRESSING MY FRUSTRATION VIA THE MEDIUM OF CAPS.
It was ingenious, but I’m going to struggle to describe it, largely because I CAN’T FREAKING REMEMBER. But the cast of The Wire was involved. Except the story had nothing to do with The Wire. McNulty is engaged in this battle of wits with the world around him. The world around him is for whatever reason constantly trying to trap him, catch him, outsmart him – and McNulty is using his wits to fight back. But every time he wins, the puzzle changes. I can’t possibly explain it. I can try. The plot was like a Rubik’s Cube. A Rubik’s Cube made by M. C. Escher. Except every time it gets solved, it turns into a completely different puzzle, also made by Escher. It was also like – you know in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, when every time Joel turns, the world around him changes into a completely different scene? It’s a bit like that too. But the best thing about it was, just like Escher’s work, it made sense – even though it seemed like it shouldn’t. Every time McNulty outsmarts the world around him somehow, the whole thing changes, the plot twists and folds into itself, and… I don’t know what to tell you. It was ingenious, and if I remembered it I’d already have it typed out as a screenplay by now.
Oh and, I think I was playing McNulty, as I woke up with tired legs like I’d been running.
You know they say that our only being able to use 10% of our brains is a myth. But my dreams sure make me feel like it’s true. And I don’t know how to access it. Why show it to me if I can’t do anything with it, if I always end up forgetting most of it?
Oh, the reason I wrote this under the meditation goal: last night for the first time I tried meditating in bed, right before sleep. And I don’t know if that had anything to do with it, but you bet I’m gonna try it again tonight, and if I can for the rest of this week. And I’ll have a notepad and a pen right next to the bed, to give me at least some slim hope of getting it down before it slips away from me again.
