"I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky"
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The intent isn't confession so much as a diagnostic of modern life and mediated perception. Anderson's work has long treated technology, surveillance, and storytelling as instruments that rearrange reality in real time. When you live through screens, through recordings, through narratives you tell about yourself, location becomes conceptual: you're "in" a memory, a plan, a performance, a feed. The spooky part isn't ghosts; it's the quiet realization that your sense of presence is outsourced, and your certainty is a special effect.
Subtext: identity is less a fixed point than a moving track you hear slightly out of sync with the image. It's also a musician's line - about being "in the pocket" or not, about the strange lag between intention and execution. Anderson turns that tiny delay into philosophy, but keeps it human: the eeriness of noticing your own absence while you're still standing right there.
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