Black Box

 

Song about the Music Box Theater in Wrigleyville in Chicago. The small black box theater had lumpy seats and terrible sight-lines. You'd have to watch a film constantly shifting your head. 

Seed entry:

2/21/1998

John Lennon said that whatever changes we go through, whether they be permanent or not, last forever because it brought the relationship to a point where both people changed, and that change would not have been possible without the relationship.            

Film: Mother and Son by Russian filmmaker. Visually seductive. I would have liked to have seen more image manipulation rather than long static scenes of them in existential discourse. Not much of a score, which gave me lots of ideas of how I do it. Film was in a small theater at the Music Box, replete with lumpy seats and poor sight lines. Funny to watch people before the show switching seats to audio while looking at the back of someone’s head. 

Assembled lyric:

Went to see a movie
Visually seductive
Long static scenes
In the music box

Too hard to see
Too hard to know
What I want to see
At the movie show

Waiting for the film
The black and the red
Looking at the back
Of someone's head

John Lennon said
Whatever the change
We'll play all the chords
The song's not the same

Mise en abyme
A show in a show
Since it can't be seen
We'll never know