Lance Olsen - Sewing Shut My Eyes

LUST IN THE MATRIX (1)

DIGITAL MATRIX TELEPORTS IN, SAYS, “yo, dOOds, someone ready to sMoke?;)”

ERIC WAVES, SAYS, “Hi.”

DIGITAL MATRIX, ASTOUNDED, SAYS, “*hi*? *Hi*?”

ERIC SAYS, “yeah, well. prtty nEw at this sorT a th ing. Um, YO.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SLAPPING HER FOREHEAD, RUBBING HER HANDS IN GLEE.

ERIC SAYS, “sorry. ill, um, just slink away right now”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “dont you *dare.* Come to momma, little boy.”

ERIC APPROACHES, SAYS, “just cheCking things out.”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “Cherry to the cybersex cell?”

ERIC RESPONDS, “cherry to the mansion.”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “where u from?”

ERIC SAYS, “seattle.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “really? Me too. In a manner of speaking. what u do?”

ERIC ANSWERS, “student.”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “ahat kind?”

ERIC RESPONDS, “hischool.”

DIGITAL MATRIX DISPLAYS MUCH RUBBING OF HANDS AND GNASHING OF TEETH.

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “what u wearing tonight?”

ERIC RESPONDS, “stuff jeans tshirt sneakers Y?”

DIGITAL MATRIX GASPS, “!!!!!!!!!”

ERIC SAYS, “oh I get it make something up”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “my poor poor little boy”

ERIC SCRATCHES HIS HEAD, SAYS, “Ok lez see now…”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “i smell a tutorial here. The scent is powerful…”

ERIC SAYS, “Sounds gOod. when do we begin?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “bring your seatbelt tonight?”

ERIC SAYS, “buckling up even as we speak”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “so much to learn and so little time”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “Eric, sweet thing, you with me?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “hello?”

ERIC SAYS, “gotta go. DAd needs to use the computer talk to ya soon”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “*Dad*?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “*Dad*?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SHRUGS AND LEVITATES TOWARD THE CYBERWINGS.

@QUIT

DIGITAL MATRIX TELEPORTS IN, ASKS, “Eric, you out there this evening, honey?”

ERIC SAYS, “over here. hoping youd show.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “good to see ya”

ERIC ASKS, “wAnna know what i m wearing?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SMILES, TONGUE-STUD FLASHING.

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “fast learner i’m all ears.”

ERIC SAYS, “black code west boots levis turtleneck mirrorshades.”

DIGITAL MATRIX RESPONDS, “gOl star”

ERIC DISPLAYS MUCH BLUSHING AND DIGGING OF BOOT-TOES INTO THE VIRTUAL SAND.

ERIC SAYS, “;-)”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “so u live in seattle?”

ERIC ANSWERS, “near uw can see uinion bay from my bedroom window you?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “block off e Madison tellme bout eric.”

ERIC SAYS, “17. fAst learner. got these theories”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “such as”

ERIC SAYS, “ever get the impression things are like speeding up”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “things?”

ERIC SAYS, “the city the world everything like you turn on the news at 6… ”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “…?”

ERIC SAYS, “an its completely diffrent from what u saw at 5”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “You got my attention.”

ERIC SAYS, “song #1 last month?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “…?”

ERIC SAYS, “when u hear it again u cant remember if u heard it befor”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “like you only dimly recollect it from when you were 7.”

ERIC SAYS, “an if this is the future were living in… ”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “then wHat could possbly come next?”

ERIC SAYS, “its like amazingly hard to remember what day it is”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “rr what you di yesterday.”

ERIC SAYS, “and day before that is just out of the question”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “like 500000000000 bc”

ERIC SAYS, “tomorrow… ”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “Oof, tomorrow… ”

CHAOS THEORY

“Far from being a bad or a negative thing, chaos is a positive aspect of the world, expressing the beautiful diversity of phenomena as well as the underlying cosmic rhythms. The fact that the world is an incompressibly complex chaotic computation means that there is no way to predict the future other than physically living through the time it takes to get there. Surprise is always possible, and a state of chaos is a state of health.” —Rudy Rucker

“If your brain software is on the disc, the computer can simulate you, and you will be, in some sense, alive inside the computer.” —Rudy Rucker

“I think that if you could become a cyborg for reasons of intellectual ecstasy, one day you’d discover that you’ve passed out in the street, and there are roaches living in your artificial arm.” —Bruce Sterling

LUST IN THE MATRIX (2)

ERIC ASKS, “know what i think”

DIGITAL MATRIX RESPONDS, “…?”

ERIC SAYS, “were all a lot more conservative than we pretend we r”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “as in we live this way not cuz we want to”

ERIC SAYS, “but cuz we have to deep in our hearts”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “deep in our hearts we all want to appear on mtv.”

ERIC SAYS, “deep in our hearts we all want to be a different target market”

LUST IN THE MATRIX (3)

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “and what will our jobs look like when werre 35?”

ERIC ANSWERS, “we ll need to get used to a little less every day my father claims no worthwhile males were born after 1966”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “…?”

ERIC SAYS, “thre already too comfortable wiT the idea of failure”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “children of the 60s”

ERIC SAYS, “flower children”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “freudian nightmares”

ERIC SAYS, “no motivation no ambition deepseeded belief in fate”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “And u?”

ERIC SAYS, “hard parts knowing secretly the guy may just have this point”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “waz your mom say?”

ERIC RESPONDS, “she lives in san francisco sensnce I was 5 mom renamed herself after a season”

DIGITAL MATRIX CONSOLES, “i’m so so sorry.”

ERIC SAYS, “she believes in berries reincarnation timophy weary. my father renamed himself after a motorcycle.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “he didt.”

ERIC SAYS, “harley d. i’m so existentially embarrassed.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “i’m history… but then arent we all?”

LUST IN THE MATRIX (4)

ERIC SAYS, “u live off east madson?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “moved in couple mOnths ago”

ERIC ASKS, “how come?”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “ya don wanna knowx”

ERIC SAYS, “i do.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “guy prob”

ERIC SAYS, “*You?*”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “my life isnt holly consisent with my media imagea”

ERIC SAYS, “u give us all reason to hope”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “I seem to attract guys your dad was talking about.”

ERIC SAYS, “Tell me.”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “You really want to know? here goes. i was living with this guy.”

ERIC SAYS, “musician, right?”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “howed u know that?”

ERIC SAYS, “at some level you really loved him”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “cant even begin to tell you how much only”

ERIC SAYS, “only he was a real asshole”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “selfabsrbed lazy messy sometimes cruel in a really just osrt of weirdly unconscious wya”

ERIC SAYS, “an really really talented”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “and really really talented.”

ERIC SAYS, “one of those things it should have worked out in the future.”

DIGITAL MATRIX SAYS, “Only the future never arrived.”

ERIC SAYS, “only somewhere way down deep you think maybe it still might”

DIGITAL MATRIX ASKS, “So what ya wearin tonight?”