well... i'm still crazy. jackie picked me up in biel around 2:30PM this afternoon- and then drove us home. i'd gone to bed at 4AM but woke at 6AM in zermatt, and began packing and getting organized to take the taxi to the train, and then the train to visp/bern/biel. it was a long trip. but beautiful to see everything white and frozen from the train; everything looked sugar coated, very mystical and magical... frozen trees, everything covered in snow, even the air was hanging with frost; looked like vintage christmas cards... i shot a lot of digital fotos from the train, through the window which was flecked with rain drops, or thawing snow?- which made them even more 'vague'- which i think, once i gray-scale them, and enhance the levels, will look great.en route a' la maison, yesterday, jackie reminded me that i have a solo gig at the Astoria in Luzern tonight! i had completely forgotten, and was thinking/hoping i had the week off, after going through jet lag [which i am obviously not over!] for a week in high altitude and thin air! oh well, time to call on the inner spirit, which never fails me.
we had some coffee- then later, vegan pasta and salad, watched some of "cold mountain" [which seemed apropos] and i said, 'i have GOT to go to bed- i am exhausted'- so hit the sack before midnight... BUT... then woke, wide awake, at 4:30AM... couldn't go back to sleep... so, decided to just get up.
so i dug through my stash of cameras in my room- and found i'd left a ton of great ones here- especially some of my beloveds: a cosina; a kowa; and a few russian leica copies, and medium format agfas. thank god, i didnt bring all [from home] that i had planned to: i brought the Nikon, some digitals, polaroid sx70, a few video cameras and toy cameras. but, way too many considering i have these here, and KNOW i will acquire more, while here. guess i'll just leave a complete 'copy' set here, and most of my clothes [which are getting too big anyway] so i can haul some treasures home.
i also pulled out "les liaisons dangereuses" from my book case to read over the next few days; set up my laptop and wrote a few emails home; smoked [god, what luxury- after 7 days in non smoking zermatt!] and finally went upstairs and had a peanut butter and zopf sandwich and came back and began blogging.
it's 7.30AM and i am NOT sleepy. i don't know what will transpire. i just went upstairs and made a double espresso with soy milk... and am having another smoke... [which does not make sense if i plan to TRY and sleep]... am going to turn on Arte [the german/french Art channel] without sound a try to zone out...
one more gig, then a week off to start working on some collages, some photos, editing a lot of my old writers tapes [some of which i transferred to a 1.5TB external hard drive before i came] and possibly begin recording some solo stuff with my beautiful old hand made piano from 1880! now.... to TRY and sleep.... too much stuff in my head...
[c] 2008 doug duffey
