The other night walking late through High Park I was very impressed with my vision that at a fair distance away I saw something black and small cross the unlit road. It’s either a squirrel or a skunk. My daughter loves the super heros and their different super powers. When you think of it, outrunning a train, lifting a building, flying through the air are all amazing. My personal fave surreal superpower is the skunk and the fact he can kill you just with smell. I started to follow him which now was so easy against the field of fresh snow. They’re so intriguing and small. Whoa be the curious creature going too close too fast. The theremin sort of occupies that space, prior to any other electronic instrument. Who would have thought this little slow waddling oversized squirrel could defeat a tiger by raising it’s rear leg? Who would expect the little boy with the antenna to make you rethink the generation of sound waves? I was touring California and played Los Angeles the same time that the theremin film debuted. At the reception the filmmaker did Q & A and they had an old time enormous one in the lobby. Mind blowing watching that film and learning about Soviet espionage, Clara Rockmore and Brian Wilson’s unexpected reversal of plot when they expect him to speak enthusiastically about the arrangements in Good Vibrations and he says he chose the theremin because he always hated that sound.