I think Shaun Tan has lied to me, I've been waiting and waiting for my Red Tree to appear but it just hasn't.
In the cafe at Kurrajong Heights where Artboy agreed to meet me the week after he ran screaming into the night he picked up a pencil and sketched my portrait on the paper tablecloth, he'd never sketched me before, not once. It felt like a scene from a bad movie. It felt like the opening of a bad novel, it felt like my life had been taken over by Ed Wood. But the worst part is this narrative has no structure, there is no neat arc in the story of my life. I have no idea what is going to happen next. I think I'm going to need a montage, a life changing montage.
In the cafe at Kurrajong Heights where Artboy agreed to meet me the week after he ran screaming into the night he picked up a pencil and sketched my portrait on the paper tablecloth, he'd never sketched me before, not once. It felt like a scene from a bad movie. It felt like the opening of a bad novel, it felt like my life had been taken over by Ed Wood. But the worst part is this narrative has no structure, there is no neat arc in the story of my life. I have no idea what is going to happen next. I think I'm going to need a montage, a life changing montage.
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