I am dumb, looking at the screen.Only just able to raise my finger, I click again. I am non-thinking, the opposite of my brain working, and believe there to be a link, somehow secret, that will inspire, move me in a direction, anywhere.
But I stay thick and slow, stuck. There is nothing. I go around again, the same pages, the same things, the same morbid reflections, the same sentimental desires, and I know that I will not click on anything new, that I will keep circling in, trapping myself in this concentric hell. An email arrives and I have to respond to that. I have to get up. I have work, things I must do, and already am thinking back to just now, having this time to do whatever I wanted and doing nothing, absolutely nothing.I should have done something real and certain. I promise myself that I will do that, the next chance I have.
I have been obsessive with saving ticket stubs for over thirty years – a time frame that seems to parallel my rock collection. This isn’t to say I’ve saved every one of them, but I still have the stub from my first concert, The Who at Maple Gardens in 1980. There have been a lot of hockey games…a clear and intense obsession with The Grateful Dead…NCAA basketball…and more recently many shows at BAM, Carnegie Hall and the Met. Some events I remember better than others. Some I completely forget.They’re just pieces of paper, some just printouts, but still it’s good to remember where most of my money has gone.