this is where we look for things
10.17.00 - 02:26:39
ok. so just one little story to relate tonight and then i go to bed (somehow it got all late...maybe because i got up at 10). anyway.
ok, so we're driving to the toyota place to pick up lyn's car this afternoon. we're making our way down main street when i happen to glance to the right. i see one of those big orange diamond-shaped road signs. it's nailed (or attached somehow, i don't know how they do that stuff) to one of those huge power line poles. we're talking the ones that look like tree trunks. what does this sign say? "power lines." with an arrow pointing upwards. no lie. unfortunately, lyn was the only person around that i could point this out to, but we had a good laugh. for about two minutes straight. no, like, i felt like we were on one of those shows where they take a camera around town pointing out stupid signs. or like headlines on leno.
i had a random conversation with an old friend the other day. and when i say old friend, i mean i've known this girl almost 15 years. and at some point in the conversation, i made some pathetic attempt at apologizing for not being in touch more frequently and called myself a bad friend, and she said, hey, no problem, you're not a bad friend. in fact, you're one of the best kind of friends. huh? she went on to explain how we don't need to be in constant communication and she knows she can always call me and we can pick up where we left off and i can do the same. and i thought, you know, that is SO true. i felt vindicated. i also felt like everyone i know should subscribe to this theory. because it makes a lot of sense. also, it's less effort for everyone. i mean, not that i don't enjoy keeping in touch with people. that's not it at all.
'all my bags are packed/i'm ready to go/i'm standing here outside your door/i hate to wake you up to say goodbye/but the dawn is breaking/it's early morn/the taxi's waiting, blowing his horn/already i'm so lonesome i could die...so kiss me and smile for me/tell me that you'll wait for me/hold me like you'll never let me go/i'm leaving on a jet plane/don't know when i'll be back again/oh, babe, i hate to go...'
i have such sweet memories associated with that song. everytime i hear it, i'm like, awwwww. but then again, i think that's everyone's response to that song, regardless. a story. so i went on audiogalaxy and looked it up because i wanted the version from the armageddon soundtrack. and all these different versions of the song pop up. bjork. bjork+jewel. ani difranco. tori amos. chantal kreviazuk. liz phair. peter, paul, and mary. the mamas and the papas. i'm getting all excited because i'm like, ok, i thought i had a good idea of what ani and tori have covered, and this was not on my list. and i love liz phair. and bjork and jewel? sounded interesting. so i've still got a chunk of memory left on my computer, and with dsl, it's just too tempting. so i download like, every version. later, i sit down to listen to them. so the first five that i listed? yeah, they all turn out to be the exact same song. i was pissed. it sounds like bjork, but it might be chantal kreviazuk. i should take a look at the armageddon soundtrack one day. and the peter, paul, and mary and the mamas and the papas are really just peter, paul, and mary. i was so annoyed. i mean, that just wasn't cool.
reminds me of this other time. i might have written about it before. but like, i heard this song on the radio. a show on 94.5 called the nightly news. the only thing i can remember is a chorus repeating 'goddamn right, it's a beautiful day.' it's catchy. exceedingly so. so the next day, guess what! it's a beautiful day. and class was cancelled for some reason and i'm sitting at home, fixated on that song. so i go to the 94.5 webpage, hoping for a playlist, and they do me one better -- they have a playlist for the nightly news. and i see a song actually TITLED 'beautiful day.' so i get all excited, because could it have been any easier? i go to audiogalaxy, find beautiful day, hit download. come back in a couple of minutes, hit play. it's NOT the right song. how could a song with chorus NOT be called 'beautiful day'? i was so disenchanted after this little fiasco that i didn't even try to look for it the rest of the day. the next day, i decided to look at the band names, and i figured it sounded like the eels and it was indeed the eels, 'mr. e's beautiful blues,' which, though it does have beautiful in the title, is NOT as appropriate a title as 'beautiful day.' what a ruse.
so there's this new station. 106.9 all 80s, all the time. it seems very strange to me that no one had this idea earlier. it's awesome. and since it's new, they're playing like, 10,000 songs with no commercials. it's fantastic. but like chris says, every now and then something like 'in the air tonight' comes on and you just have to change it. the 80s weren't perfect, but hey, what is?
yeah, one little story. this ALWAYS happens...
