{"id":66159,"date":"2011-09-30T21:13:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/66159\/bringing-man-apartment\/"},"modified":"2011-09-30T21:13:18","modified_gmt":"2011-10-01T01:13:18","slug":"bringing-man-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/66159\/bringing-man-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bringing An Old Man Back to my Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Floyd\u2019s face was turning red as he berated the grocery store cashier.\u00a0 He was going on and on about something; I wasn\u2019t paying that much attention to what<\/strong><\/em> Floyd was saying as much as how <\/strong><\/em>he was saying it. The timbre of his voice, the accent, the words he chose, these all came only from spending 7+ decades on this planet.\u00a0 He sounded like William S. Burroughs.<\/font><\/p>\n

This all happened back in 1997<\/strong>.\u00a0 As he stormed out of the grocery store, I quickly paid for my items and ran after him.\u00a0 Introducing myself as an audio artist, I told him I lived in the high-rise right above the grocery store we\u2019d just left, and if he had a little time, I would be very honored if he would accompany me up to my apartment where I could record his voice.<\/p>\n

Without hesitation, Floyd agreed and 5 minutes later, he was sitting on my couch with his shoes off.<\/p>\n

See, I wasn\u2019t that much different then than I am now, although I am not in the habit of picking up septuagenarians and bringing them home these days.\u00a0 Using my computer and sharing my creativity with my online community was my favorite thing to do, as it is today.<\/p>\n

\"\"The technology sure has changed.\u00a0 Back in 1997, there was no YouTube.\u00a0 We shared WAV files.\u00a0 We were ALL on dial up back then , and so these files needed to be small.\u00a0 Ten, fifteen seconds.\u00a0 Consequently, my half an hour interview with Floyd was broken up into 10 second snippets.<\/p>\n

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What I wanted to get Floyd to say was \u201cPraise Squishy Bear!\u201d.\u00a0 At the time, I was a leading figure in an internet cult which worshipped a stuffed animal named \u201cSquishy Bear\u201d.\u00a0 I could write another whole blog about Squishy Bear, the Cult of the Graphites and the lifespan of a satirical internet cult, suffice to say it took the whole half hour to get Floyd to say what I wanted him to.
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Now, back in 1997, digital cameras were hundreds and hundreds of dollars, and my video camera was broken\u2026 so I have no pictures of Floyd, so his representation in this video is an approximation.\u00a0 The picture of me, however, was taken 14 years ago.
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\u201cWell, you could do charitable works\u2026\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n

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\u201cOh, No!\u201d<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Floyd\u2019s face was turning red as he berated the grocery store cashier.\u00a0 He was going on and on about something; I wasn\u2019t paying that much attention to what Floyd was saying as much as how he was saying it. The timbre of his voice, the accent, the words he chose, these all came only from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,6,10,840],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-friendburst","category-life","category-religion-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}