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Tripod

from Tenmoth Electron by bens pens

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the plan was that I came into town, picked up the tripod and took it over to chris' house. but, just after i headed out, he called to say he had to head across town himself in 2 hours time so maybe it would be better to see him tomorrow. I considered getting off the bus crossing the road to the bus stop on the other side and going straight home but I have a this yearly travel pass now and thought it had been such an effort to leave the flat to begin with that I should carry on. I sent out some texts from the bus to friends I thought might be about but none of them were. The weather was nice after being grotty for a while and everything looked as if - or rather I thought it looked from the top of the bus - as though the buildings were putting some kind of show. Like actors who've been doing the same play for months and are tired of doing the same performance but are still professional enough not to show it. I decided I needed more pages doing for this thing. I decided I would write about loss of confidence. the way everything suddenly leaves you - your feeling of having friends, your life motor, time...I went through all the places I thought I'd feel comfortable getting my laptop out and stayed on the bus till I alighted near Piccadilly. I was listening to the 6ths album wasps' nests on my battered ipod headphones. it's my fault they're on their way out - I have them in my jeans pocket the whole time. the wire's showing near the bit that plugs into the ipod and the cap of the right-hand headphone sticks in my ear when I take the rest of the headphone out. the volume level is only audible on a few albums (classical music isn't worth listening to at all unless you're in the country in the middle of the night). anyway the first place I went to wouldn't take card payments so I went across the street to take some money out of the machine. I went back and ordered a tuna melt, a coffee and a small cube of nougat. at the end of the counter was a small glass shaker with some ground nutmeg inside and another one containing chocolate powder. I sprinkled some on top of my coffee. it was the first time I've tried this and it tasted great. actually just now as I was about to really get into writing this the waitress has come upstairs to say the area i'm in is now closed. I think i'm going to go back home now as I haven't really got enough money to go and have any fun.

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from Tenmoth Electron, released December 1, 2017

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bens pens started off as a concept band where ben just asked people if they wanted to be in his band. at one point it had 7 flautists and no rehearsals performances or songs. often it's just him. tenmoth electron is the result of almost 10 years slowly turning a self published magazine into a piece with his friend tom loffill and voice of icelandair atli gunnarsson. ... more

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