At my window....
....sad and lonely....
Oftimes do I think of thee
Sad and lonely and I wonder
Do you ever think of me?
Thus begins the lyric to one of my favorite songs off of one of my favorite cds entitled: "Mermaid Avenue".....
I don't know why I mention it. The song just popped in there on the way home. The CD was a concept endorsed by the Woody Guthrie estate. It appears Woody wrote lyrics, but no music to several unrecorded songs... That is until the estate wanted to introduce Guthrie to a younger audience. They hired Billy Bragg to put music to the lyrics. Billy figured he couldn't do it alone. He contacted a wonderful band called Wilco (Local Chicago Boys), and thus "Mermad Avenue" volumes 1 and 2 were created. Together Bragg and Wilco put the music together, and every once in awhile, I sing it. Damn them for putting good music into my noggin! Those BASTARDS!!!!
Oh GOD!!! How I want this school year to be over. I am fried (random thought brought to you by ... ummm.... Wilco --- Fucking Awesome band!).
Okay, today all I want to do is crawl under a rock, not for any one reason. First, they... naw, I won't finish this thought either. I can't find an angle. Let's move on...
It just occurred to me as I stood in the middle of my apartment thinking of ideas for this blog that last Indiana Jones flick came out while I was in high school. Some friends and I went to see it on the last day of school. Odd how I can remember that, and not some dude that I was supposedly friends with back in the day who came up to me and quoted to me with some stupid smart alecky high school wisdom I used to spout off. Anyway, 19 years later another one was released, and I am in high school. Funny.
It's odd how my memories are starting to fade away. I wonder if it is old age (CRS) or there has been way to much going on in and around me that those memories of the days of old just seem to be pushed back into my subconcious mind. Maybe it's a defense mechanism. Some of those memories aren't all that grand... But, some were pretty neat. Maybe it is my mind telling me it is time to start making new memories... good ones, in fact.
Maybe it is time for me to start living my own life and not look back. There is nothing back there... It's all forward. Maybe my mind is telling me to do that! Hmmmm... That's food for thought. We'll put that on the pondering list for some later date pondering. I love a good pondering. I think pondering should be one activity that should make it on everybody's list of "Things to Do."
Anyway, let's play .... RANDOM THOUGHTS!!!!
1. Call me "Beer Guru" ... today I was called by a friend on vacation. He's in the Carolinas and went into a local beer store. He wanted some info. Sadly, I was able to answer all his questions. He's happily getting drunk on some beach out East. Lucky fellow.
2. Moving is a bitch! I have to move my "office" sort of speak. It has taken me days to put all my useless shit into boxes to be useless again in another location that will probably have to be put in boxes again after next year for some more useless uses. That's a lot of uselessness.
3. I had to put on the A/C... My cave was 85 degrees... That's hot. I decided I didn't feel like sweating. Sweating just ... well...it's all wet.
4. I found my senior high school yearbook in a box the other day. I looked at my senior picture. Somebody wrote "DIE BASTARD!" accross it. I snickered. I guess some people just never change. I had more hair back in the day. What happened to my hair!?!?!?!? Errgggg....
5. Dial soap.... it's a good soap.
6. Irish Spring...it's a good soap, too.
7. Random thoughts that mention soap just goes to show you something, I have absolutely lost it.... time for a recharge.
8. My I-Pod played three more songs the other day (I had it on random) that I know I didn't put there. Where did those songs come from? "Ghost Songs" I like to call them... I have a haunted I-Pod. A supernatural I-Pod... I wonder if that is worth something?
9. Damn, I am thirsty.
10. No, really, I am thirsty. All I have is beer and an empty water container in that there fridge (where did that water go? A haunted fridge?). I don't want either.... Erggg... How irritating is that!?!?!
11. I have a Chicago Accent!!!! I never really knew that!!! Does it make me sound stupid?
12. I have to start putting together a summer reading list. I figure the first step to self-actualization is to start aquiring more knowledge.
13. Joe's Actu-Weather Forecast: It's hot outside. It made my apartment 85 degrees!!! I had to put on the A/C... because I don't like... Wait, this is a rerun thought.
14. I hate repeating myself.
15. Did I mention how I hate repeating myself.
16. I like cake.
Prost!
Oftimes do I think of thee
Sad and lonely and I wonder
Do you ever think of me?
Thus begins the lyric to one of my favorite songs off of one of my favorite cds entitled: "Mermaid Avenue".....
I don't know why I mention it. The song just popped in there on the way home. The CD was a concept endorsed by the Woody Guthrie estate. It appears Woody wrote lyrics, but no music to several unrecorded songs... That is until the estate wanted to introduce Guthrie to a younger audience. They hired Billy Bragg to put music to the lyrics. Billy figured he couldn't do it alone. He contacted a wonderful band called Wilco (Local Chicago Boys), and thus "Mermad Avenue" volumes 1 and 2 were created. Together Bragg and Wilco put the music together, and every once in awhile, I sing it. Damn them for putting good music into my noggin! Those BASTARDS!!!!
Oh GOD!!! How I want this school year to be over. I am fried (random thought brought to you by ... ummm.... Wilco --- Fucking Awesome band!).
Okay, today all I want to do is crawl under a rock, not for any one reason. First, they... naw, I won't finish this thought either. I can't find an angle. Let's move on...
It just occurred to me as I stood in the middle of my apartment thinking of ideas for this blog that last Indiana Jones flick came out while I was in high school. Some friends and I went to see it on the last day of school. Odd how I can remember that, and not some dude that I was supposedly friends with back in the day who came up to me and quoted to me with some stupid smart alecky high school wisdom I used to spout off. Anyway, 19 years later another one was released, and I am in high school. Funny.
It's odd how my memories are starting to fade away. I wonder if it is old age (CRS) or there has been way to much going on in and around me that those memories of the days of old just seem to be pushed back into my subconcious mind. Maybe it's a defense mechanism. Some of those memories aren't all that grand... But, some were pretty neat. Maybe it is my mind telling me it is time to start making new memories... good ones, in fact.
Maybe it is time for me to start living my own life and not look back. There is nothing back there... It's all forward. Maybe my mind is telling me to do that! Hmmmm... That's food for thought. We'll put that on the pondering list for some later date pondering. I love a good pondering. I think pondering should be one activity that should make it on everybody's list of "Things to Do."
Anyway, let's play .... RANDOM THOUGHTS!!!!
1. Call me "Beer Guru" ... today I was called by a friend on vacation. He's in the Carolinas and went into a local beer store. He wanted some info. Sadly, I was able to answer all his questions. He's happily getting drunk on some beach out East. Lucky fellow.
2. Moving is a bitch! I have to move my "office" sort of speak. It has taken me days to put all my useless shit into boxes to be useless again in another location that will probably have to be put in boxes again after next year for some more useless uses. That's a lot of uselessness.
3. I had to put on the A/C... My cave was 85 degrees... That's hot. I decided I didn't feel like sweating. Sweating just ... well...it's all wet.
4. I found my senior high school yearbook in a box the other day. I looked at my senior picture. Somebody wrote "DIE BASTARD!" accross it. I snickered. I guess some people just never change. I had more hair back in the day. What happened to my hair!?!?!?!? Errgggg....
5. Dial soap.... it's a good soap.
6. Irish Spring...it's a good soap, too.
7. Random thoughts that mention soap just goes to show you something, I have absolutely lost it.... time for a recharge.
8. My I-Pod played three more songs the other day (I had it on random) that I know I didn't put there. Where did those songs come from? "Ghost Songs" I like to call them... I have a haunted I-Pod. A supernatural I-Pod... I wonder if that is worth something?
9. Damn, I am thirsty.
10. No, really, I am thirsty. All I have is beer and an empty water container in that there fridge (where did that water go? A haunted fridge?). I don't want either.... Erggg... How irritating is that!?!?!
11. I have a Chicago Accent!!!! I never really knew that!!! Does it make me sound stupid?
12. I have to start putting together a summer reading list. I figure the first step to self-actualization is to start aquiring more knowledge.
13. Joe's Actu-Weather Forecast: It's hot outside. It made my apartment 85 degrees!!! I had to put on the A/C... because I don't like... Wait, this is a rerun thought.
14. I hate repeating myself.
15. Did I mention how I hate repeating myself.
16. I like cake.
Prost!
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