joshua wilsher

Doing the Math! This is kinda weird!

Ooooh, a new look at Smoov Goes to College... but not for much longer! Yes, I wanted something else so I could include the swell pic of Central Park which you can see above. Of course, when we are there in exactly four weeks this Friday past, it will not look like this as all those leaves will have shed. But that doesn't matter because the 850 acres of park sitting smack-bang in the centre of Manhattan island looks amazing any season of the year.

It seems studying media arts allows one a substantial amount of free time so I have been researching the park and its particular parts I want to visit. (Usually I only venture around its perimeter as I'm either too cold, too hot, or it's night and I'm too wise).

Along with my internet-based reaearch, I read The Catcher in the Rye again this week (I read it once upon a time when my uncle gave it to me for Xmas). In the second half of the novel Caulfield spends a lot of time in Central Park and while an exact date is not mentioned, apparently, actual history, geography and current science allude to it being December '49. While we will also be there in December, it is of even greater coincidence that we land in NYC the evening of December 8th - the date of Lennon's assissination. And these numerical correlations continue as it is the same date 26 years apart! It is also timely that I read the 26 chapters that make up Catcher cos in a few months Chapter 27 will be released. (I'm writing of Chapter 27 the film, not of some metaphor for our time in NY - only a psycho would do that!) Anyways, I think a pilgrimage to the Dakota Building on CPW at 10.50pm the night of our arrival would be appropriate.

And yes, how sad it is that it takes popular culture for me to have an active interest in famous literary works of the 20th century.

posted by Joshiesmoov @ 12:37 PM