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Orlando!

JG Thirlwell will be presenting his Silver Mantis project in Orlando, Florida on Friday December 9 2022. The performance will take place at Timucua, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave., Orlando, FL 32806 at 7.30pm.

Silver Mantis is a 50 minute live surround-sound electro-acoustic presentation, performed with keyboards, prepared piano and theremin. It is performed with a projection created exclusively for the project by acclaimed Swedish visual artist Sten Backman.

hi orlando!!! <3

1. who is/are your comfort character(s)?

apart from the black brothers and draco, and kat from 10 things i hate about you, i also find prince myshkin from the idiot very comforting.

2. lighter or matches?

lighter! i have so many, an entire collection, most of them stolen from random people at bars, or spares given to me by strangers, or my friends' lighters. i really want a metal zippo with some cool design, but can't find the perfect one just yet.

3. do you leave the window open at night?

always, no matter the season. i will endure all the bugs or frostbites just to have fresh air circulating around my room, and i also always have my bed by the window, no matter where i am.

4. which cryptyd being do you believe in?

i am now coming to the realisation i don't know that much about cryptyds? i looked them up, and i guess out of all of them i am more inclined to believe in anything water-related. anything could be hiding in the depths of the oceans.

5. what color are your eyes?

greyish blue? i think? sometimes they look, green, sometimes they turn a darker shade of blue, a deep colour of angry ocean waves, usually right after i have cried.

6. why did you do that?

the first song that came on is in polish, so i will have to translate the lines. hopefully the translation will sound coherent

the song is Dom (noun, house or home) by Bitamina

i particularly like the chorus, which goes like this:

Zbuduję Ci dom/będziesz miała schron/taki szałas na hałas/I zasadzę brzozę tuż za rogiem/żebyś latem miała cień/Zawiozę do szkoły/każde z naszych dwudziestu pięciu dzieci i mowy nie ma, żebyś musiała wstać/Nie będę palił i nie będę pił/i nie będę oglądał zakazanych rzeczy nocą na tv/Kolacja u twojego taty i/bat i bat i nic/jeśli chcesz dla ciebie mogę tak żyć.

the translation is something along the lines of:

I will build a home for you/where you will have a shelter/a shelter from all the noise/And I will plant a birch right around the corner/So that you have a shadow in summer/I will drive to school/each one of our twenty-five children, and there's no way you'd have to get up/I won't smoke and I won't drink/I won't watch forbidden things on TV at night/Dinner at your dad's/Whip and whip, and nothing/If you wanted to, I could live like that for you.

In the order in which I encountered them:

(Florida)

(Bloom)

(the novel by Virginia Woolf, depicted here by Tilda Swinton)

(MY CAT, named after the novel, depicted here as a kitten)

(Jones)

(the novel by Virginia Woolf, like this actual manuscript I saw yesterday and secretly took a picture of because I was so excited, at Knole, the house that served as her inspiration)

(the Sackville leopard, a gift from a wonderful friend purchased at Knole's gift shop, surveying his grounds)