jason pettus | [story] We are the sum of everything that has come before us

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[i am a camera]
A more confessional journal than this one, updated more frequently, always accompanied by a real-time cellphone photo. Maintained at my VOX account, using their excellent mobile client for Palm. RSS-enabled.

[randomvideo]
Two- to five-minute video reports from random events in my day-to-day life: gallery openings, indie-rock shows, drunken parties with my friends and the like. Recorded on my cellphone, a Treo 650, uploaded at a later date to my account at YouTube.com. RSS-enabled.

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The same as [randomvideo] but with audio only, and posted in real time using cellphone technology, via Odeo.com. RSS-enabled; can be used in such podcasting software as iPodder and iTunes.

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Candid photos from my day-to-day life in Chicago and elsewhere, courtesy of Flickr.com. RSS-enabled. I am also now maintaining a separate page there as well, tracking just my favorite images from other photographers.

[fabb]
A promotional website and blog for Fabb, the "virtual prefabricated housing" company I run within the strange videogame Second Life. Includes regular free tutorials on the SL building process.

[social bookmarks]
Each day I post 5 to 15 links online to other interesting things I've found on the web, over at my account at del.icio.us. A good option for those who want to find out what in the general culture interests me these days, in that I rarely post outside links here at my personal site. RSS-enabled.

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Created and maintained by Jason Pettus on a Macintosh Intel Mini and Palm Treo 650. This site is graciously hosted for free by Jimi Sweet; I thank him immensely for doing so.

The following can also be found in the book Chicago Stories 1999. Click here to learn more, and to download a free electronic copy.

We are the sum of everything that has come before us, from the beginning of time to right now. Right now. Right now I have the blood of criminals in my veins. Right now I have the blood of nerds in my veins. Right now I have the blood of lead miners in my veins. Right now I have the blood of Klan members in my veins, right now, right now the blood of my forefathers run rampant over my heart and tap their rhythm against my ribs, tap, love, tap, hate, tap, time, tap, tap, tap a beer and quell the fire that's inside of me, douse the flames of my forefathers raging inside of me, love, hate, time, tap, tap, tap a message to you through the wall that separates us, tap tap tap (I'm not as bad as I seem) tap tap tap (I make plenty of mistakes) tap tap tap (they're always in public) tap tap tap (The world scares me)

We are the sum of everything that has come before us. We are a billion chromosomes strung in random order, a protoplasmic tapeworm coiled around and around and around a bend in the road I see dead Union soldiers, around a bend in the road I see burning crosses, right now, right now I round a round bend around the road, you on one side, me on the other, can you hear me?

HELLO?
CAN YOU HEAR ME?
I AM THE SUM OF EVERYTHING THAT HAS COME BEFORE ME!

My heart beats a million years wide and three feet deep. The only space that exists is the space between you and between me. The only time that exists is the time between you and between me. We are the sum of everything that has come before us and we exist for this moment, right now, right now, right now I am you and you are me and time has compressed itself into a ball that hovers in the air, beating against our ribs, composing a silent tone poem between us,. rattling our bodies until we become one, tap, tap, tap, tap tap tap tap tap

There.
Can you feel it?
Now
don't
move
an
inch.

Copyright 1999, Jason Pettus. All rights reserved. This was published under a Creative Commons license; click here for details. Contact: ilikejason [at] gmail [dot] com.