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"I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky"

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Disorientation is Laurie Anderson's home turf, and she delivers it here with the calm, offhand timing of someone reporting the weather. "I'm not usually where I think I am" sounds like a throwaway line until you feel the split it describes: the body in one place, the mind in another, the self lagging behind its own GPS. The punchline - "It's kind of spooky" - is classic Anderson: a deadpan shrug that makes the uncanny feel both intimate and faintly comic. She doesn't dramatize the fracture; she normalizes it, which is exactly why it lands.

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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Anderson, Laurie. (n.d.). I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-usually-where-i-think-i-am-its-kind-of-69284/

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Anderson, Laurie. "I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-usually-where-i-think-i-am-its-kind-of-69284/.

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"I'm not usually where I think I am. It's kind of spooky." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/im-not-usually-where-i-think-i-am-its-kind-of-69284/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Laurie Anderson

Laurie Anderson (born June 5, 1947) is a Musician from USA.

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