Timeout
I'm totally random today and I keep finding myself zoning out the world and fixating on a particularly odd moment in time. I guess it's my own interpretation of Zach Morris' brilliant advancement of the monologue - the "Timeout."
A few moments/topics/quandries have taken me out of the real world recently -
Yesterday night I observed a man in his mid-sixties, revving the engine of his beat-up truck at a stoplight. He was attempting to race a woman in a minivan. His truck had a "My other home is Hooters" license plate. What?!?
I have two live viruses swimming through my bloodstream right now. I feel like my head is two-feet above my body, and this far away feeling is making it easier to daydream. I keep envisioning my white blood cells wearing cammo and approaching the viruses - one brave little cell charges forward, "en garde, yellow fever and typhoid!"
Have you ever studied John Brown before? As an Iowan transplant in Kansas, I had no idea about the insane amount of Civil War history in this area and I've had to do quite a bit of research lately for work. I love history. I'm a total dork and it's blowing my mind. I can't decide if the guy was totally brilliant or totally evil - but he's probably somewhere in the middle.
...just a few things for you to ruminate about. Time in.
Update: I forgot that yesterday was the summer solstice and I wanted to post this celebratory playlist. It blends the hottest soul with the summer heat.
*Best enjoyed at night with a mind willing to wander through the past, a cool beverage in hand, and millions of stars overhead.
Soul-stice
Tennessee - Arrested Development - 3 Years, 5 Months and 2 Days In The Life Of...
Use Me - Bill Withers - Bill Withers:Super Hits
Since I Seen't You -Anthony Hamilton & Mark Batson - Coming from Where I'm From (iTunes Originals)
Sky And Sea (Blue In Green) - Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles
In A Sentimental Mood - Duke Ellington & John Coltrane - Love Jones Soundtrack
Matter of Time - Kem - Kemistry
Come Close To Me (ftg Mary J Blige) - Common - Electric Circus
Lonestar -Norah Jones - Come Away With Me
Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye - Ella Fitzgerald - The Best Of The Songbooks (Disc 1)
Spring Summer Feeling - Jill Scott - Beautifully Human - Words and Sounds, Vol. 2
Last Night When We Were Young - Sarah Vaughan - The Essential Sarah Vaughan
Hold My Hand -Van Hunt - Van Hunt
Live It Up - John Legend & Miri Ben-Ari - Get Lifted
Why - Kirk Franklin & Stevie Wonder - Hero
Georgia On My Mind - Maceo Parker - Life On Planet Groove
Get to Know Ya - Maxwell - Now
Youloveme - Musiq - Soulstar
Adore - Prince - One Night Alone... Live! [Disc 2]
The Second One - Remy Shand - The Way I Feel
No Ordinary Love - Sade - Lovers Rock
I Believe (When I Fall In Love It Will Be Forever) - Stevie Wonder - Talking Book
posted by Ally @ 11:51 AM
3 Comments:
You know, I hate to admit this, but I'm disappointed when I come here and don't see anything new. I don't know what I'm expecting, maybe only a couple of new posts a day......
OK. As a dad, I would guess your father was deeply touched by your blog. He must be so proud.
As for John Brown, or more exactly this area's civil war heritage. I'm totally shocked by how many folks don't know Missouri was a slave state. Baffled. My hometown, Grinnell, IA was a major stop on the underground railroad. If Arkansas was the nearest slave state, that would NEVER have been true.
I guess that about "wraps up" my comments for tonight. I think I'll have another low carb marg.
Wouldn't that be a great name for a band? "Please welcome back........LOW .......CARB.......MARRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!!!k
B
You know, I hate to admit this, but I'm disappointed when I come here and don't see anything new. I don't know what I'm expecting, maybe only a couple of new posts a day......
OK. As a dad, I would guess your father was deeply touched by your blog. He must be so proud.
As for John Brown, or more exactly this area's civil war heritage. I'm totally shocked by how many folks don't know Missouri was a slave state. Baffled. My hometown, Grinnell, IA was a major stop on the underground railroad. If Arkansas was the nearest slave state, that would NEVER have been true.
I guess that about "wraps up" my comments for tonight. I think I'll have another low carb marg.
Wouldn't that be a great name for a band? "Please welcome back........LOW .......CARB.......MARRRRRGGGG!!!!!!!!!!
B
Bruce -
Hola, amigo. What's up? I'm happy to know that my opining makes for some distraction for you.
I DID realize the IA connection to the Underground RR. I remember visiting a few historical sites in Des Moines in elementary school, although for the life of me, I can't remember the where or why. I dig history, I just can't retain it.
Thanks for keeping tabs on the site. It's been a hellish week at work, and I'll be nutso between now and getting on the plane. However, the bigger issue is that I've been so zoned out with this Typhoid immunization that I can't focus. It's a pill I take 4 times and my last dose is tomorrow. It's made it so I can barely read or focus, let alone write.
Sorry for the sabbatical, but I hope tonight's entry makes up for it.
-a
PS - I love low carb Marg. It's almost as good as the new Mike-arita from Mike's Hard Lemonade.
Ahh...memories of branding meetings :)
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