I swear this is the last post tonight...

[palsgraf_polka]

I was perusing my books in search of a book to read, and saw The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh, which I bought about 20 years ago and never got past the first 20 pages or so, but so many of my favorite authors credit Wambaugh with their careers, so I felt I should give it another chance.

And I found a very odd bookmark.



from the music choices, I think this was probably written when I was about 16 or 17. Apparently it was very important that I have at least 4 100 minute tapes, hahahaha.

Also, something is currently thumping across my roof, making the cats insane. I have a feeling it's a raccoon. Sounds heavier than a cat.

Comments

[revwry.livejournal.com]

lol, the onion field was great just for talking about peanuts in shit.

[shoe5005.livejournal.com]

Yay for Maxell cassettes and Dolby-B Noise Reduction

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

The weirdest thing is that I just now wrote that again in all caps like above, and my handwriting is still exactly the same. That's so odd to me.

And peanuts in shit? This will be interesting.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

God I remember how much of a pain in the ass it was to get things on tapes. You had to plan it just right and make sure you had enough time on it...such crap.

I don't know how I lived my music life prior to my iPod. I have almost 14,000 songs on mine right now.

[shoe5005.livejournal.com]

haha, my ipod is from 2007 and only 8 gigs.

The funny thing is that i still haven't completely filled those 8 gigs yet.

[revwry.livejournal.com]

yeah, as in I'd eat the peanuts out of her shit.

it's a good book.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

lol, you probably already know this, but that was Bell Bottom Blues by Derek & the Dominoes, fucking awesome song.

The thing on the roof is not a raccoon.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

Actually, I think I was looking for something bluesy for a tape, and was trying to figure out which one I wanted.

I think this is the Dominoes I am referring to:

http://home.att.net/~marvy42/Dominoes/dom01.html

And The Swallows:

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-swallows-2

They were both on this fabulous CD by Rhino:

http://www.amazon.com/Risque-Rhythm-Nasty-Various-Artists/dp/B0000032HL

which is an entire album of euphemistic R & B songs from the 50s. I highly recommend it.

And IIRC, the new Eric Clapton would be Unplugged, I presume.

So I would guess this note at some time in 1992, putting me at 17 or 18 years old.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

Mine is a 2007 80 gig iPod Classic. I have about 72 gigs taken up with music at the moment. I love music.

[mojave-wolf.livejournal.com]

Ah. my bad. I just saw the note and thought you meant "new" Clapton as in new you just heard, w/"blues" in the title and by something w/"dominoes". Thus my thinky.

but good to know about that other stuff, now. =)

More seriously, I hope the thing on the roof was looking for someone else and has gone away by now.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

I think it was a raccoon. I went outside to smoke 10 minutes ago and the cute little black alley cat came over to say hello and get some skritches and then all of a sudden her hackles raised and she growled and got into stalker stance and skulked off toward something she was staring at in the alley. More than likely it was a raccoon, as she's really the only current alley cat. She came back about 3 minutes later and sat with me again and I gave her some treats.

[ygrii-blop.livejournal.com]

Wifey and I started married life in a trailer. It may sound awful, but we liked it. The trailer was parked at the edge of eleven acres of woods. It was nice. At the end of our trailer, at the very edge of the woods, were a persimmon tree and a mulberry tree. The raccoons held bacchanalias on our roof every fall when the fruit was ripe. And then one summer the tulip tree at the other end of our trailer was full of horrible screeching bats. We liked living there and so did the wildlife.

[palsgraf-polka.livejournal.com]

I've often thought about living in a trailer. I think I would be very happy. It would satisfy some primal white trash ancestral urge.