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Paul Simon wakes up and gets out of bed. It’s some time after 1 p.m. Paul Simon had a late night. He went to the casino with Chevy Chase and lost between $200 and $400 dollars. Paul Simon goes into the kitchen and pours cornflakes into a bowl. Paul Simon has a flashback to the casino: he is taking off his Rolex and mouthing off at the croupier and putting his Rolex on to the blackjack table and demanding chips for it. Chevy Chase is near the roulette, looming over it, about 7 feet tall in a white suit. Paul Simon pours milk into the bowl of cornflakes and carries it into the lounge. He sits on a salmon-coloured leather chair. His feet don’t touch the floor. Paul Simon picks up a controller and presses a button, and the Yo La Tengo best-of CD Prisoners of Love starts playing throughout the house. Paul Simon sits on the salmon-coloured leather chair and listens to Yo La Tengo and closes his eyes as his cornflakes become soggy. Paul Simon wishes he could somehow saw himself free from the rest of his life, and go into a flotation tank and just listen to Yo La Tengo forever. He would eat using a tube and soup, maybe. Paul Simon puts the bowl of cornflakes down on the salmon-coloured tiled floor and hops down off the chair and goes over to a coffee table. He picks up the Yellow Pages and flicks through for the Fs, for ‘Flotation Tanks’.


– The rest of this article is printed in Loops Issue 01, available to buy from these Stockists.