The Complicated Bicycle

Do you remember those delightful films they used to show on PBS when you were little? The ones shot on grainy flickering film, which were poorly transferred to ancient video tape. Can you hear what that memory sounds like? Take a pinch of it and store it away for later. Imagine that the rafters that creak around in your attic and scare you at night all have human names and are trying to pick what instruments they want to play in the school band. Grab a smidge of the sound of their first official recital. Okay, pick up a 14 inch piece of string and drop it so that it falls with one end pointing north and the other end pointing south. You see that it's straight but that it's maybe just a bit crooked, perhaps it has a small wave to it. For each little amount that it veers right or left of a perfectly straight imaginary line, we will now attach a sound. Hold on to the push and pull between those two aural feelings.

Now bring the grainy films, the rafters, and the string together. Swirl it around in your head like a mouthful of the last sip of soda from the summer time. I think you're with me now.