Early this morning, I stepped onto a yard of dewy grass and sensed autumn for the first time. Let me explain the verb "sensed" here. It refers, obviously, to sensation. Did I smell autumn? See it? Taste it? Hear it? All of these and none specifically. There was just something in the air. I sensed something autumnal. I looked summer in the eye and heard its rasping breath and smelled its fading perfume (omg! am i actually writing this crap?!)and knew - just knew - that something was about to give any day now.
Then again, maybe it just feels like fall because the Yankees are winning and the Red Sox are losing. A sure sign of September. I am working very hard on trying to connect the dots between the Yankees meteoric uprise (wait- don't meteors usually fall?) and Karl Rove's resignation. Is Rove somehow connected to the most evil team in all of sports? (Sorry Duke fans). I'll keep you posted if I continue to invent new updates.
I've been spending a lot of time in the Way-Back machine lately, visiting my boyhood home - the 1970s. There was a lot I didn't know about when I was a boy, a lot of stuff I'm just now beginning to realize. For instance, I had never heard of Roger Corman when I was 7 or 8. I was a stupid kid. I didn't realize that David Carradine was a better actor than Henry Winkler, that Happy Days was a load of crap compared to Kung Fu. Now, I only want to watch Death Race 2000 over and over and over.
That's it for now; I've been a little out of it lately for whatever reason. Oh well. I think I will leave you with some nifty 70s recent reissue CDs. Buy them!
Disco Deutschland Disco - Incredible German import of - you guessed it! - German disco music. I don't know if this is better than American disco music or if it just seems better because these songs haven't been played to death. The end result is the same however - Sex Machine Boogie-Ooogie-Ooogie.
The Dynamics - First Landing - Southern sounding soul music from Detroit. If you can listen to the first track, "I Don't Want Nobody to Lead Me On," and then explain to me why these guys weren't bigger than The Commodores, you win a free Pepsi.
Ananda Shankar and His Music- Sitar music for people that listen to Sly and the Family Stone. Dig it.
Betty Davis - They Say I'm Different- Straight up druggy funk from Miles Davis' ex-wife. Imagine Tina Turner singing about S&M and you get a little bit of an idea of what this CD is like.
