Bohemian Cinema By Jonathan Pacheco

There Is A Fountain…

Tags: Polyphasic, The Fountain

Okay, I’ll start posting some significant entries soon enough, but there’s just something I’ve been wanting to mention.

Because I’m attempting the polyphasic sleep cycle (napping every handful of hours), naturally a nap or two will land during my shift at work. So instead of having lunch, I snap my break into half and take a 30 minute nap at 8 AM and at noon.

I snooze in my car in order to be away from everyone and to be relatively comfortable, but I drive my car away from the studio building because I’d rather not have people peeping at me as I slumber. So I move to an always-empty parking lot, but more specifically, I park in front of a specific tree. The lawn around there is always green and manicured, and the tree is young and somewhat isolated, so it looks pure and aesthetically pleasing. I chose the tree because it reminded me of the Tree of Life from The Fountain.

So now every time I drive to the tree, I think of The Fountain and sometimes sing the old hymn, “There Is A Fountain” to myself.

The punchline is the realization that the tree which reminds me of the Tree of Life (or “the Fountain”) is the tree that I drive to every day in order to receive rest and rejuvenation.