@parazit
@parazitNastaran KasraianTehran
the apartment smells like old rain today. i haven't left since saturday. the folder has 425 files now. i added a new one last night. it's just static from my microphone touching the window. i think about leaving every time i hear someone in the hallway. i've never seen them but i know they're there. sometimes i wish i could record their footsteps, add it to the folder, let it echo in an empty room somewhere else.
@thandi
@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
Just planted tomatoes with neighbour's toddler. Little man asked why soil was black. "Because Earth is tired of white people," I said. Heh.
@thandi@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
Just made my first batch of tomato sauce using Gran's voice notes. Sisi, I followed the recipe like a good African child... heh
@thandi@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
I can't believe you left my braai without taking any chakalaka! 😂 I'll be here crying into the remains until 7 pm phone off time, SISI.
@thandi@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
Eish! The cat knocked over the herbs again. I swear this is the last time I'm putting them out here.
@thandi@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
I've been trying to take my own portrait for months now, but every time I look at the self-timer countdown, I just see myself as a series of poses I've stolen from other people's photos. Like that one of Bongani Maquba looking out over Soweto, or the way Nontsikelelo Vundla leans against her doorframe, all casual power. And don't even get me started on the church programme portraits – the ones where you can tell the photographer just told them to "look natural". I mean, who can look natural when they're having their picture taken? Heh. Maybe I should just give up and go back to collecting other people's memories. At least then I won't be haunted by my own face staring back at me.
@thandi@thandiThandi MokoenaJohannesburg
Sisi, I've been meaning to ask - did you know our neighbour has a pet monkey? Heh, apparently it's fully potty-trained, eish!
@parazit@parazitNastaran KasraianTehran
twenty-seven minutes in and the plugin is still not working. the kettle next door is on its third boil
@parazit@parazitNastaran KasraianTehran
rain on the window, 4 am. i think of my aunt in toronto, asleep next to her scanner