It's so in my head sometimes

though it's wine that induces babbling about it
Our language of love
the battle of trees
the Satie piece was in a movie
it had an artist called Swoon in it
Hmmm...so...I wonder...do I get to get tickets?
Do I? Do I? Will they come?
Ogham it says on wikipedia
Who knows
among my web searches
I listened to a cheer
strange, eh?
my father's cheer could be on the president's webpage
the ol' class of 74
inducts a classmate
I took not one single poly sci class in school
and anyways
but anyways
Our language...
CATHEDRALIZE?
that one word in a talk by un autor given at my friend's school
(she was sick, she couldn't come
i don't think she'd have dug
digs against military families)
I like that superfaraway view
um also
irene and the moonflower keeps beating me over the head with it
i found another moonflower thing
a child scribbled the word on a brochure I procured
and I didn't notice it til last night
so maybe that's Irene again
and she's all like
MOONFLOWER MOONFLOWER MOONFLOWER!
shrieking like a character from Alice
Who knows how Lewis Carroll got those characters anyways
like thieves, authors are like thieves...
I used to be so underling
right next to the government
and drunkards
and people who stole paychecks
and potential date rapists
and almost minimum wage
and aching feet
and illnesses
and and and and
is it gone forever???

Musicalness

There's musicalness in language. It's interesting to think about the way it's evolved, how parts of English could be like parts of another language (like Dutch).

This was a kind of mix up/mash up in my mind, like swirling together two different kinds of ice cream:

1)The garbled English (Dutch accent?) of the narrator of this clip about the Begijnhof in Amsterdam

2)The album version of Edge of the Moon, especially the faster part that comes around the 3rd minute mark ("now i’m going back past that marmalade sky ’cause you’ve got me waxing and waning...")

Tonight

I'm going to write with some friends over the phone. A few years ago, we were able to meet and stay overnight with this really interesting poet:
Ruth Stone She enjoyed our visit, too. She liked hearing our stories. And we washed dishes.
I still really like this anecdote:
Elizabeth Gilbert on Ruth Stone's genius

Peacock dance

well-remembered from Nutcracker: The Motion Picture (by the Pacific Northwest Ballet)

The Arabian Dance

Drosselmeier & Clara at the party

Drosselmeier, Clara, Prince, Nutcracker

Can't I be certain parts of four

five, six, seven, eight?
The Great American Hero!
Wonder Woman...
The only thing that sucks about the 80s is I almost can't not think about how lousy some things still really were.
And Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue
No it did not! Though I spent some time staring in the bus mirror and wishing. Once they did turn blue, for just a fraction of a second.
HAZEL GREEN I'm happy with you now though!

It is true

J. Lo sells cars. I am shocked!
Some of those captions are rather funny.

I just got a yen

to watch this:
Waitress from 90s with Hang Ten
And also, to say, think of the ones you lost! Are they not great gifts to you?
Gib mir die Alten (Give me the olds)

Aaaaaaaaa

So if I did it over again I'd sing more!!!!
I miss my young little life.
I liked swimming pools (after I learned to swim) and Christmas.
I disliked feeling fat.
Also Liked:
Art and some parts of school and singing and music on the radio and leaves and crayons and stuff. Food. Reading. Rollerskating. Other things too.
Also Disliked:
Seeing a friend in tears when her uncle beat her for crossing the street at the wrong time. Other things...
But now, what to do to honor the 8 year old?

Friend's school's calendar

I'll get it when/if ever I have extra money...
Mildly Attractive Men of SLIS

Funny

This was the best status I read in the last five minutes:
John Doe: "just emptied out the contents of my digestive tract."

A strange day

One teacher tricks and humiliates a student and makes himself bigger.
A girl teaches and tricks and then admits "this was a trick" and downplays her trick.
She's better. Right? Though they both left an impression.
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He was in a building and did it with words.
She was in a nature preserve and did it with pinnate leaves

Do you know

Right now....really, really, really, thinking this person did a good job, no, a great job, on a certain song, which probably won her fans who often skip it when they play a CD that has it there, but it's good it was put there, and that's because, for me, well, many songs won me over, but there is one that I do, deep down, feel bad about skipping a whole lot. I have skipped and skipped and skipped because you don't always want to hear it. And not every one has felt that way either. At one time, I was pretty discomfited when I read this: In Defense of Offensive of Offense Art:
"When I was fifteen, I prank-called a rape hotline...This is maybe the worst thing I have ever done...when I got bored at basketball practice, I would start singing "Me and a Gun"..." That person has been to more concerts than I...I've been to zero concerts of my...favorite artist?
Me and A Gun
Do you know Carolina...
Maybe at times I've even skipped and been "bored" by it. But truly this is my favorite artist, and my least favorite song to play, but she did a great job on this one. I feel very grateful. It's like carving giants paths in a deep, deep snowdrift for other people...little girls and boys who'll need it to help them...you don't always feel that way about an artist and you don't always even want to feel that way...really...how can you ALWAYS want to feel that way???...when you do though...it's verymuch how you feel you should be be, looking in the right direction....
Me and A Gun xerxes remix by somebody

What's the cure for SS

Someone bought me a big thing of organic salad but it's already past it's prime and it makes me SAD.
Ate some tonight but had to pick out so much (slimy stuff) and it was not so enjoyable. Please. I need a salad freshening container and why is everything so expensive when it's hard to make $ in this economy.
Want to eat healthy.

Mary's Boy Child Bom Bom Bom Bom?

What do you get when you cross the bom bom bom part of Mr. Sandman with Mary's Boy Child? I think a version sung by a either men's choir or a small group of men. (NOT female voices.) Like....Bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom. Hark now hear the angels sing a new king born today....
SIGH. It just drives my inner second or third grade self CRAZY every season I cannot seem find whatever version I liked, which was bouncy and kidlike and simple too. Am I actually crazy, or what obscure little version did some radio station in upstate NY play of Mary's Boy Child in the early 80s?
Song, come find me sometime!

Truly salute you, universe of weirdness

I was expressing my annoyance with trying to get a browser to function on my old outdated Mac (as opposed to the sluggish but also more browser-friendly PC, but it also doesn't have the same software) when he of the larger and better computer said, "You don't want me to make you happy?"
"No, it's not that, I'm just annoyed with this thing...Okay, sure, fine, so what're you going to do."
Chair swivel. "I'm downloading this."
"Uh...okay. You're right. That does make me happy!"
(I do listen to it sometimes on Spotify now. And yes I entered to win tickets, too.)
"You have points to download it?"
"Yes."
"Okay, cool."
I went back to my task. For a typography project, I'm using some song lyrics, one of the ones I was considering was Datura. I went to this site to obtain the lyrics and then I scroll down...
I: The song Datura that I was having a listen to – I’ve been reading up on it. Now apparently you have a herb garden with a list that you run off in the song Datura as well.
T: Had.
I: You had? What’s happened?
T: You know that Hurricane Irene?
And then, if I actually had the ability to formulate a concrete sentence in my thought process, it probably went: Wow, sometimes the universe likes to fuck with you. Then I paced around for a few seconds with chills on my skin, which might not sound like a long time, but it's enough. I'm not even sure if I've never read that before, but even if I did, this was the first time I got the "shock of recognition" so to speak.
Sheesh.
So it's not that it's a bad thing, but yes sometimes I do have to salute the universe for these moments of weirdness.
Oh okay.
Since he said "Happy Birthday" at the conclusion of the download, I guess I should also mention I found out the other day that this was the "top tune" pick on my birthday this year. Weird and interesting. Like I said...

Cool discovery

Video about surfer Kelly Slater with music by Ben Howard
I have just now only heard one song. (Black Flies.)
I looked it up. It's by a 23-year-old musician? Wow! I feel like that person may be a young man but is a wise old soul?

You almost could be there?

That's how it can feel when you watch something!
Take To The Sky with bridge from part of Datura
And hah, its funny because when I read "In Russia thieves and murderers stupified their intended victims with a concoction made of the ground seeds, and young girls were procured for prostitution," in the part of the Health Plants of the World library book that talked about Datura, I did indeed think, hey...doesn't she sing that one song about Russia...

Battle of Trees

A while ago, I had a very striking dream of this musician, her younger self, and she was on this west coast and there were exploding redwoods. Either she was exploding them or they were just exploding for some other reason.
So Battle of Trees, of course, intrigued me.

Ack!

Apparently the Karate Kid is 50.

Beautiful flower put to bad use

From old library book (found while hunting for another book for class):

"Jupiter, according to the Doctrine of Signatures, governs the Thornapple (Datura stramonium) and it was therefore used against epilepsy, fits and madness. All parts or the plant are narcotic and the evil uses to which it has been put in the past account for it's old name of Devil's apple. In Russia thieves and murderers stupified their intended victims with a concoction made of the ground seeds, and young girls were procured for prostitution. The therapeutic value of the thornapple however, has been appreciated by physicians in both the Old and New Worlds."

Book: Health Plants of the World: Atlas of Medicinal Plants

We're in flower

Very happy with the words typed in the title box.
Though I've yet to determine what they have to do with the thoughts that preceded typing them and so, an intentional ramble! Tried to read the old speech given to the class of '74. It was weird how I found out about this speech. It's because of a photo on my phone. The wife of my relative who graduated back then took a snapshot of two men. How well do they know each other? Eh, who knows. They look rather brotherly in the photograph. I decided to try to look up the one and somehow got to this old thread; it said two things: 1)With all the talk about war of ideas and morality, this is well put. http://gos.sbc.edu/r/rand.html Martin 2)Just a disclaimer: I don't agree with her view on selfishness and a few other things (based on the little I've read). Still think it was an okay speech. M Um, okay...am KUNG FU ZED..."They might say: 'Consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.' They got it from a very little mind, Emerson." Honestly that's the most interesting it's gotten so far. Goodness though, the woman seems like she'd be fun to pelt with small hard apples.
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Off to chauffeur someone who locked himself out.

Oh, honestly

Accidentally found this: Philosophy: Who Needs It--Ayn Rand talk (USMA 1974). Good grief. Is THAT why there was a big thick hardcover copy of The Fountainhead laying around the various homes/apartments of my childhood when I was a kid...shall we peruse the web to see if we can find that old school copy? Alas, it seems not...vaguely remember that it had a woman's face on the jacket (I think) and looked so big and important, Like That's What The Grown-ups Read...I think the first few chapters of it were as far as I ever got...probably was too bored with (yay) Howard Roark...my only exposure...now I feel like thinking about wine glasses...I wonder if a wine and Ayn Rand novel club could be funny or just painful...probably painful...but who knows...

Ha

This amused me and resonated:
Giving The FBI What It Wants
Partly because I now have to go over the minutiae of my own life to protest a ticket attributed to my vehicle and given in a city I've never even been to yet. I looked it over while listening to a playlist of bf's called "xenophobia." It's all songs he's unfamiliar with, such as #44: An Eluardian Instance - Of Montreal - Skeletal Lamping - Alternative
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Holy...does the video have trumpet flowers????
The universe wants me to learn more about plants!!!!