three suspensions
Here’s my secret to life.
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In music, use suspensions in abundance; on bicycles, use them sparingly. In film, keep the audience suspended till the end, and then fail to resolve it.
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In practice, I do all three, and the reactions are invariably as follows:
"Eh write the chords for me!" They can’t figure it out.
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"Wah! So uncomfortable!" But I like to feel the road, and I don’t do downhills.
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Sometimes I even get "How come your bike got no suspension one?" which implies I am riding a cheap, Taiwan-made, one-hundred dollar bicycle. Which - come to think of it - is not a bad thing.
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Finally, audiences usually state, in no uncertain terms, that they had absolutely no idea how the story ended. Some even declared they did not understand the story. The poseurs would, however, nod their heads and go "Mmmm." Which leaves me wondering.
