North Jersey
I love looking out the NJ Transit NE Corridor train at all the decaying factories, rainbowed puddles, polluted marshlands, grafittied walls, busted-through fences, colonies of tractor trailers, seedy bars, hollowed ghetto architecture, miles of concrete and asphalt, overgrown lots, struggling amputee-trees, piles of industrial waste, and endemic litter in North Jersey - today was sharp and sunny, but grey and rainy is good too. Landscapes don't get any more revealing than this. It can be wabi sabi, it can be expressionism, it can be social realism, it can be dada. You can learn more the state of the county than from any book or anything... It is rather like a TV show because the window is just like a TV screen - I never visit any of these places, just look at them passively, disconnected, almost flat. But I don't want to say what I think it all means - I just want other people to experience it. I usually try to sit on the right side going south, looking west*. Which side do you prefer? Have you seen it? What does it mean to you?
*see comments section for a devastating re-evaluation!
8 comments:
I like to sit looking west because I like like the highway bridge you go under. But isn't that the right hand side, going south?
Yes. You are right. I will have to issue the
FIRST OFFICIAL SYNESTHETIC SUPERSCAM CORRECTION AND GENERAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT THAT I AM NOT INFALLIBLE!!!
I have changed the entry to read "looking west" from "looking east."
And for having a sense of direction that would make a migratory bird green with envy, we are giving IDALIA the official travel version of the Synesthetic Superscam "I want some soup" boardgame - while away hours of time thinking something's going on that's NOT.
XXX OOO XXX
Did you get my e-mail? Have you seen my blog? Did you see my "bleak Japan" pictures? You should take "bleak New Jersey" pictures. Bleak is beautiful.
--i.frog
I got an "email." Yes. Can't say if I have seen your blog, it being deemed a state secret by the psychic samizdat. I will have to search for bleak Japan. I imagine it has been deemed public?
bleak japan
Unless you says so I am going to out your blog here. I realize there might be other corridors that will remain verbotten. W'ev...
RE: bleak japan I LOVE those little people by the little tracks. They made me feel happy.
Can I have a boardgame for the following fact (of course not): Once the doors didn't open at Metropark and I had to get off the train in Rahway. (nobody doesn't know this story) In Rahway, there is apparently a policy that you have to honk your horn when you go under the tunnel under the tracks. Also a policy that you must sell Marlboro Light 100s to fourteen year olds who look twelve. I and my friend were saved in Rahway by other teenagers who (geniuses all) followed the tracks to find us (pre-cell phone, they just FIGURED it out.) I am more than a passive observer of the Northeast corridor.
But passive observation of the Northeast Corridor might be what you do after you die.
Something's going on that's NOT!
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