Jet Lag / Lost In A Moment

I am reading “Pattern Recognition” –  a sci-fi-ish fiction by William Gibson. 

His style in describing all things near-futuristic can sometimes be abstract, to say the least. But it surely beats something that reads like a fanboy’s wish lists of next-generation gadgets.  The main character is a media consultant who is psychologically “allergic” to certain popular trademarks.  Here is how he describes her jet lag after flying from New York to London on an assignment :

She knows, now, absolutely, hearing the white noise that is London, that Damien’s theory of jet lag is correct: that her mortal soul is leagues behind her, being reeled in on some ghostly umbilical down the vanished wake of the plane that brought her here, hundreds of thousands of feet above the Atlantic. Souls can’t move that quickly, and are left behind, and must be awaited, upon arrival, like lost luggage.

I am going to post more about the book when I finish.  It started slow but now it’s getting exciting.

Lost In A Moment

Lost In A Moment is a 2006 song that I think will go really well with the above. I took the photo in Iceland which happens to be in the middle of the Atlantic.

The song by Shrift which is a collaboration of Dennis Wheatley and Nina Miranda – “It’s all swirling atmosphere, with fingerpicked guitars, glimmering string sections, Brazilian and synthetic percussion and gusty echoes around Ms. Miranda’s limpid voice,” wrote Jon Pareles in New York Times.

The song has been used in a youtube video made by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan Maclean (before the song was created) sitting in a kaiten-zushi bar (conveyor belt sushi) in Tokyo.  They put the video camera on the conveyor belt and turned it on while it slowly pans around the restaurant.  

Truly mesmerizing. One of my all time favorites.  Enjoy.

Originally published on December 12, 2009. Last updated in November 2022.