how deluded can u be?

I went to attend an amazing show yesterday evening

delusion - laurie anderson

and I had one of the most pleasant, intense, moving, touching, wonderful experience I could ask for


I don't want to spoil too much about the contents, but there were a couple of concepts in there which I will never forget:

1. a beautiful metaphor about how we keep on living our lives. like a donkey following a carrot. we go, and go, and go... following a carrot, never really questioning why, who put the carrot there, do we really want that carrot. until one day...

2. a garden with daisies. black and white. her voice saying "I was thinking of u. I was thinking of u. I was thinking of u. And then I was not thinking of u anymore. My right eye is tearing. My left eye is tearing. My right eye is tearing because I love u. My left eye is tearing because I can't bare it"

3. we die three times. the first time when our heart stops. the second time when we get buried. the third time when a person says our name for the last time.

4. mother meditation, from buddhism. it suggests, in order to find back the feeling of love, to try looking at the world and at people as if you were people's mother and then to re-look as if everyone was your mother.

5. I really like the stars because we cannot hunt them... we can just reach them.

I cannot really describe what I felt. most of the time a punch in the stomach. in a good way. I cannot imagine a better way of telling a story, combining self produced music, images, scenario, words, lights...



which way do we go?

another day in america...