THE FOX RIVER MALL, ONE OF THE LARGEST MALLS IN OUR VERY OWN STATE OF WISCONSIN, OPENED 6 MONTHS AGO ON JULY 18, 1985. SPRAWLING OVER 1.21 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF WISCONSIN LAND, THIS IS ONE OF THE LARGEST SHOPPING CENTRES IN THE BADGER STATE.
“ENJOY A DRINK NOW AND THEN AT OSHKOSH WINDS CAFE, SHOP AT 2 + 1, ARMONDS KEEPSAKE DIAMONDS CENTER, WIN A NORWEGIAN BLUE FOX JACKET!!! BE A MILLIONAIRE FOR A DAY! 3 MONTHS AFTER OUR CARE BEARS/STRAWBERRY SHORTCAKE PARADE, GRAB SOME ALL-AMERICAN CLOTHING AT THE CLOSET! WATERBEDS, WATERBEDS, WATERBEDS! HEAR THE MUSIC REVERBERATE THROUGHOUT THE FOODCOURT FROM THE RED INK NIGHTCLUB! ID LOVE TO SPEND THE NIGHT WITH HER WHEN WE MARRY, OH GREAT GREAT MALL!! WISCONSIN WILL PROVIDE! HURRY, DON’T YOU WAIT! GRAB YOURSELF A GIFT FOR CHRISTMAS DAY! WRAP IT UP!!! COME ON, HONEY!!! THIS MALL IS OURS! LETS HAVE OUR FIRST KISS ON THE EEEE fYYY THE MEZZANINE AND OH! MARRY, MARRY, MARRY! I WILL LOVE YOU UNTIL THIS MALL GETS TORN DOWN, OH SWEET STRIPED SHIRT! I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU, I LOVE YOU!” - Oh, what everlasting love they display! Watch it never burn out, like Christmas lights forever! Mezzanines, Mezzanines… have your first kiss! The man will sweat out pills for you to take! Swallow them with wine. Get choked out by department stores! Macy’s, Talbots, Calvin Kleins! 1985 will be our year! I love you so much you don’t even understand please don’t ever leave me here!
Today’s date is November 25.
今日の日付は11月25日です。
Get ready for the Christmas season!
クリスマスシーズンの準備をしなさい!
The time is currently 6:57 PM.
現在、時間は午後6時57分です。
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657 is a Mallsoft ambience album created over 4 months by a 15 year old Tatsuki Maceo. After being inspired by his first kiss, taking place on the mezzanine of the Fox River Mall in Appleton, Wisconsin (at 6:57 PM), he promised to make an album detailing his experiences in the mall, working as a barista.
This album involves 4 movements around the mall campus. It also involves around 30+ minutes of recorded ambience from the mall, in the same spot on the mezzanine where he had shared his first kiss. My stomach hurts in a good way just thinking about it.
657 is the idea that there is more to life than good times and cheer. More to life than winning a Norwegian Blue Fox jacket in the mall raffle, or buying christmas gifts for your loved ones. More to life than fluctuating brain chemicals, or crossing things off the bucket list and dying. Though, it represents the humanity behind commercialism. How though it may seem monotone and dystopian to some, there are human actions involved in every single part of it, all created by God. Spending hundreds of hours in this mall makes someone realize that God is living in all the people walking through the mall. God is in the mall with you. And he loves you so much. I can’t even bring myself to explain it, it’s overwhelming. It’s so overwhelming.
The heart of God beats on top of the mezzanine of commercialism.