The following is what I'd best describe as an audio collage that can only really be appreciated with the accompanying artwork/music video, and even then perhaps only when posted on a timeline. The only rights reserved are that I am not accredited whatsoever - as it's an audio collage I presume it breaches Kopyright which I feel a shame as it forms the audio for an artwork collage as yet unfinished that I consider an original work intended to question the nature of time as I have personally since my own days in the loony bin. The project is based around merging two superb takes on the debatable limits of time travel as expressed in the Quantum Leap final episode and the 12 Monkeys movie.                                                                                                              At it's heart though, it has developed into a tribute to a recently murdered 'smalltown' girl I never knew from the town where I grew up. The final song of the Quantum Leap finale - Ray Charles 'Georgia on my mind' being its central focus. This initial upload is solely for a certain dear friends attention should they choose to play it.                  The artwork was exhibited in a gallery upto and including Georgia Williams birthday - as someone mentions in the piece they've "always found coincidence amusing". However I do wish it was under far more joyous circumstances that I could post this in a differing light, as the song had stirred up very differing connotations prior to Georgia's passing on. For instance as a crazy piscean hunchback named Steve and his having been supported through psychosis by his friend and first love Beth in 1997 etc coincidences I know, etc, blah.                                              However, things don't always turn out how we'd either want or anticipate and that Steve guy started a new life/leap and never found Beth and, well, the rest is down to a befuddling history I'm unable to change and an as yet un-navigated future.                                                                   By merging varying time travellers fictional stories I hope to create a fresh perspective at least worthy of critique. Having particularly been a Quantum Leap fan I myself remain somewhat critical of the character Sam's final (series) leap, as 'God bless him' but he seems to answer his own agonising questions to Al the bartender - but hew they were having to work to a schedule, and that's entertainment I guess. Namely this is because although he does a very compassionate and somewhat Christlike act (as with Bruce Willis' Cole character) in the 'Georgia on my mind' scene, yet I don't think he fully grasps what Al's take on it would be - as suggested in further proposed series plots, in essence his choice reminds me of the contradictory ideas in the two major strains of Buddhism - namely in this case whether to pledge to save AL.L sentient beings as the Boddhisatvas would or to, in this case leap home. However, he couldn't really 'win' as is so often the paradoxical ideas asserted in time travel stories. Personally I identify more both the Stawpah character of Quantum Leap and the frank insights L.J Washington has regarding his own 'mental divergence', I see many people who yearn for an entire change of life as potential leapers, only having done it myself a few times I would advise to at  least "look before you leap"! whilst you are able to. I think of L.J as a saner person than most in an insane world.  To me L.J Washington acknowledges his escapist tendencies and is on his way to leaping into a more peaceful peace of mind once he confronts his own traumatic past. He plays a crucial role only really understood (alongside characters like Jones and Al the bartender) when submerging oneself in the fiction of the works, other timeline posts and the sad fact of Georgia's passing etc changing a wonderfully thought provoking story into a sad fact I presume. Even then debates bubble online about differing theories to the original meanings let alone this unique take. I hope to finish the project by the 8th of September 2014 as in the meantime I feel more compelled to pay tribute to friends  I knew now sadly passed.                                                In doing things in this way I hope a very few will understand why I don't think it now appropriate to attempt a tribute to an incredible person known only through others work personally. Still, here's to you Rick, Ben and Georgia. The sampling is crude I know, the visuals are better, but till then I hope you enjoy it nevertheless. If it gets pulled it gets pulled but I assure you with accompanying images it will make more sense. Thanks for reading D. (Kopyleft - all wrongs unreserved)

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