Hallo E'en
Holmes
fact.
Gearing up for some Diamanda though. It's that time of year. Creeeeepy!
Non-obligatory Rob Cummings nugget: I grew up in the same town, went to
the same high school (about 20 years before him). Sometimes I get the
distinct feeling I know who some of his characters are based on. But
I'll leave it at that. I think we can all relate in one way or another
to various examples from Rob's rich imaginings.
Yep. I'm just gonna watch BookTV with subtitles and listen to Sabbath
all weekend. Fuck all y'all.
Hell. I switched already to "Surrealistic Pillow." I just saw it
looking for something else and had to hear it. Classic. Takes a lot
from "Wall o' Sound." I wonder if Phil had anything to do with
producing it? Esp. "Today."
Ph, now the sad shit. "Comin' Back to Me" Real tear-jerker back in the
day! Now, not so much. I'll have to listen to Gordon Lightfoot's "Urge
for Goin'" or whatever it's called. That's a good sad Fall song, too.
"California Dreaming" of course. Joni Mitchell "Circle Game." Jeez,
just listing them has me misting up! "Sugar Mountain"! The ultimate!
The songs that made me cry. Oh brother, where art thou to gaggeth me?
I kill myself.
Don't worry, there'll come a day when no is around who remembers hearing
this shit when it came out. The context will be totally lost. Just as
well. What "context" do we have for Mozart? Or Robert Johnson? I
believe old Robert's deal with the devil is still in effect, but what do
I know? I can't imagine what it must have been like to catch a new
Robert Johnson side on the air or at whatever kind of record shops they
had in those days. Or over at a friend's house? In 1927?
I'm feelin' kind of cowboy now. I'm even making pea soup with ham
hocks! Doesn't get much more cowboy'n'that! Maybe some corn bread, to
complete the pone.
But I was slugging back a shooter of rye whiskey (Old Overholt) and it's
3:07am and Starship ("Blows Against the Empire"(1970))is on the stereo
and I got a beer on my other hand, and a Camel burning in the ashtray
and I just perceived the tableau from half a micron off center for a
second and realized that this is like my Ur position. It was in this
state, and generally about this hour, that I learned everything I know.
"America hates her crazies, and you gotta let go, you know!"
'Swahat I mean? Cowboy.