I managed to get hold of a big fish yesterday, not the plastic sort you might sea in a fish restaurant that I had envisaged, this was a soft one with more detail than is normal. I am not entirely sure what I will do with it but intuitively I know that I require a significant fish for this performance and I am not much into using real ones. I worked for one night in a fishmarket when I was 17 as a Summer job weighing the slippery creatures and that one night was enough for me. I went back to the agency and they gave me a job in a warehouse the next day. The slime, smell and scales are not for me, I just want the idea of a fish.
I rushed out a new maxim that can work with the Backstreet Boys connecting them to my other concerns. ‘Everybody’ in Chinese is a word composed of the two characters ‘big & family’. The fact that the Backstreet Boys are American, I barely knew of them before coming to China and I have never liked them makes this big family of Westerners a rather strained family. “Everybody is the concern of everybody” is what I arrived at. It can mean total surveillance but it can also mean complete indifference as everybody is nobody in particular. Watching them perform there is something slightly off, as they are thirty somethings playing at being a teen boyband. I will have to start learning a few steps and then inserting fish into it…
Finally here are the rabbit ears!
