Say That Again

Open by saying it's hard to explain, then explain it badly. Push off from this if it helps: waiting rooms.

Okay so — waiting rooms. It's hard to explain but it's like that. You know when you're in one and there's a clock on the wall and you keep checking it and somehow it's both moving too fast and not moving at all, and the…

Start with an analogy that doesn't work. Push off from this if it helps: a locked door in a building you work in.

It's like a locked door in the building, except that's wrong because a locked door you know is a door — you know there's a room behind it, you know roughly what's in there, filing cabinets or whatever. This isn't that.…

Try to describe something you have no words for. Push off from this if it helps: bootleg t-shirts.

The bootleg shirts in that strip mall near the diner... they’re not just copyright violations. It’s like the design bleeds out of the context it was made for. You know? The font shifts, the colors invert, the face gets…

Try to describe something you have no words for. Push off from this if it helps: a chair nobody sits in.

It's not just the wood, Marc. It's the way the air stays around it like it expects a weight that never comes. You know that feeling in the old office building where the floorboards creak? It's like that. It's a gap in…

Try to describe something you have no words for. Push off from this if it helps: the sound of a distant lawnmower.

There's this thing that happens with a sound like that — a mower three streets over, the pitch rising and falling as the guy turns at the end of the row — where it's not really a sound anymore, it's a kind of proof.…