* When I was 11, I started inventing "Thought Collectors". It
pissed me off that I was losing thoughts. First one was a
roll of calculator tape I attached to a piece of wood on a
wooden dowel with a pen and a piece of string to keep from
losing the pen.
Migrated up to a 3x5 pocket notebook + pen in my mid-teens.
To this day, I always have one with me. I have hundreds of
those.
Mostly to-do lists and boring things but the occasional
nugget.
But getting at modem in 1988, opened up The World for me. I
thought the stuff would be more permanent than it was. Still
have a lot of it; saved chat logs, personal emails and stuff
from the late 80s + early 90s.
Lots of projects lost due to hard drive failures or database
disasters. Such is life.
I also have a microcassette recorder with a lot of tapes,
cassette tapes going back to when I was 7, some of which I
stuck up on Soundcloud.. just because. I sound like an
annoying 7 year old showing off on the piano. Significant
only to me, but Kid Ken wanted to perform for The World when
he made that tape, and now 7 yr old Ken gets his wish, as
the Internet wasn't around for him back then. He also got a
few "Likes" on Vine from a performance, so he's pleased.
So, I'm given to introspection. I still hate losing
thoughts, even dreams, and have elaborate Roman Rooms in my
mind I use when I must, but they're fragile structures, so I
still have to get myself to a pen and paper within a half
hour or so.
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[4]Kenneth Udut Actually, there's a lie in there. I never
mastered Roman Room. I have to repeat things in my head like
one would a phone number, or a jingle to a song over and
over frantically until I can get to paper. Nobody else can
see me being frantic; it's all internal.
I'd hate to see the substantia nigra in my brain; it's
probably a black, sticky mess with all of the writing and
rewriting I do to it; [not implying a 'center of
consciousness' but rather the continual emotional turmoil
that's invisible and the continual rewards I give it when
I'm successful at capturing a thought or getting the result
I hope for. It's an addiction ]
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