The Dementia Dimension

The Wild Turkey

Wild T!
Turkerator
Beach Boys founder and musical innovator, Brian Wilson was placed in a court-ordered conservatorship
on account of bein' diagnosed with dementia.
They say he can still work on music.
Kinda wonder what he'll come up with next.
Ah, but he's come up with so much already.

 
Beach Boys founder and musical innovator, Brian Wilson was placed in a court-ordered conservatorship
on account of bein' diagnosed with dementia.
They say he can still work on music.
Kinda wonder what he'll come up with next.
Ah, but he's come up with so much already.



Is that video titled Brain Wilson as a play on the dementia?
 
The Dementia Dimension has a strange suspension.
It can snap ya to the edges of memory.
Ya might be sittin' there on the couch, unable to remember
ya loved ones name and at the same time be surfin' out
in the Solar System.

 
The Great Turkey Nebula of The Solar System.

TheGreatTurkeyNebula 1.jpg
 
The Dementia Dimension has a strange suspension.
It can snap ya to the edges of memory.
Ya might be sittin' there on the couch, unable to remember
ya loved ones name and at the same time be surfin' out
in the Solar System.


terrible disease turk,my mam died of it over 10 years ago.to lose your memory is the worst thing to happen to anybody.
on a brighter note it can get you out of so many things like weddings,christenings,jury duty, you just say you forgot.
 
Very sad. Dementia is one of those diseases that truly demonstrates the existential tragedy of life - life is a cruel joke and the joke is on us. The only response is a great big belly laugh.
It is amazing though that he does seem to still be making music. Anyone with a relative with dementia, or who has ever worked on a dementia ward, will know the power that music has to make a face light up with recognition. Music taps in to our deepest memories. And the deepest memories are the last to go. Without music the world dies.

 
"love you is siphoned from the meandering mind of a madman.
like the hero-dreamer of slaughterhouse five we have yet another
case where existence is elsewhere. for the hero it lies in the future.
but for brian wilson the dream is trapped within the wholesome
abstraction of a jello ad. his desire is to escape into the real world."
- patti smith

 
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