Home Life

This song took on a special meaning for me recently. It was my favorite song on an album called “Heavier Things,” by John Mayer. The song is called Home Life.

The chorus of the song, he speaks of wanting to live in the Center of a Circle: that is a Monad.

He also speaks of wanting to live on the side of a square: that is referring to the Golden Ratio and φ. You will see this if you look at the Symbol of a golden ratio which has been used for years by both artists and mathematicians. It is the mathematical ratio for an infinite spiral, arrived at my the Fibonacci Sequence and The Ratio, Phi. It is an infinite set of numbers, like Pi, which deals with circles, and leads back to the Monad.

Both are symbols: The Monad and The Golden Ratio. John may have done this on purpose. He may have done it unconsciously as well. I would like to ask him myself in person one day.

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Push the button

About two weeks ago, or so, my friend Monika Lightstone did a photography shoot with me in my neighborhood of Eagle Rock, in Los Angeles.

This is one of my favorite shots from that photoshoot.

It's about 4 blocks from where I live.  It's one of those huge intersections where they have blinking crosswalk units to help people not get hit by cars in the dead of night.  Monica was really digging the way the blinking crosswalk activity light (not pictured in this shot) looked above my head when I would push the crosswalk button (pictured in this shot).  So, she kept having me push the button—repeatedly—non-stop.

Traffic would stop.

Traffic wouldn't see anyone crossing the street.  They would just see some ass hat stooped in front of the botton (pictured above).  They honked their horns.

I would push the button again, because Monika instructed me to do so.  

More cars stop.  More cars honk their horns—a few even lay into his/her horn like a New York City resident resolutely trying to get a point across: "HEY DICKHEAD, STOP PUSHING THE FUCKIN' BUTTON."

Monica asks me to push the button again.

I politely suggest that I don't push the button again, because it seems to be agitating the traffic around me.  She tells me that she's trying to get a cool shot, and begs me to push the button one more time.

I push the button.

Maybe I really will do anything in the name of art (I really love this shot).

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