an iranian friend from vancouver sent me a link to a documentary
over british columbia (1996)
"Watch this before coming to BC" he said
and i did
the 90s vibe shows
but i enjoyed both the visuals and narrators voice
it was nice and poetic
and a 76-year-old american watched it as well
her name is jeanie f.
she is from lakeville, minnesota, usa
and she said one month ago in a youtube comment
"I will never be able to afford financially to make it to British Columbia in person. I have dreamed of being there and so cannot thank you enough for making this visual visit possible for me. God bless you!"
so there was this american lady 35 older than me
watching the same piece of content
just a couple of weeks earlier than me
and only 797 others watched it too
the population of a small-ish village
watched a slow documentary
with just a little over 1,000 words
in a 1-hour film
and 16 words per minute
thats 1 word each 3.75 seconds
or 1 sentence per minute
or 5 meters per minute that a slow turtle walks on land
and compare it to slow human walking speed of 75 meters per minute
and reading this you probably have already fallen asleep
but once you allow the slowness of the piece to enter your senses
you might also slow down
just like a glacier
this large slowly moving mass of ice that forms when more snow accumulates than melts over many years
and under its own weight the ice begins to flow very slowly downhill
similar to a viscous stream
you can take a nap now
oh, one last thing before you go...
in amsterdam i was on drugs
and i was riding a bike
and i didnt feel my legs
and i ate an ice cream
that felt like an explosion
when i bit off the crust
everything was slo-mo slow
but brutally sensually intense
until i woke up again and realized
she stole my wallet and ran away
while i was high saying "i love you"
sometimes you have money and love
sometimes you have money that cant buy love
and sometimes you have love but a broken heart and a stolen wallet
but since you are incredibly wealthy
money is no biggie for ya
so why not transfer some money to me
and in return
you get 90 jokes
so you can stop overthinking
and start overlaughing your ass off
your copy of summer smile ☀️ is waiting
but summer is ending soon
(in 29 days)
naii "is a sucker for broken-heart romance and stolen-money drama" io
p.s. no, the name of the glacier depicted above is not 'cocaine' but 'kokanee' - from the okanagan-syilx word for 'landlocked salmon' (kokanee salmon or simply 'red fish'), a landlocked form of the sockeye salmon and an important traditional food for indigenous peoples of the region