we are going down; we are all going down…together” [Laurie Anderson, “Big Science” 1982]
I have a Miles Davis button on my car radio; whenever NPR starts running yet another Great Booboo “press conference” I press it and on comes “Live at the Blackhawk, 1961”. I’ve been using it a lot lately…
Meanwhile, the weather continues unsettled, as has been a certain dam [another miraculous product of the Army Corps of Engineers exacerbated by infinitely deferred [“it’s not raining now; maybe it won’t ever”] maintenance] up by Oroville. Though it’s not blown out yet and downstream we remain in mud
the current sequence of storms seems to be intermittently slightly slighter, so maybe it never will. With days of dull light the spaces between become cause for way too many pictures of unaccustomed shadows, but hey, not much else happening…
until down it shuts again…
only to open up brilliantly,
albeit briefly,
for a swell sunny afternoon warm enough to unwrap the little truck [not shown] one more time
before the storms, upgraded, began pouring through somewhat unrelentingly into the end of the week [Damn! That dam…]
necessitating spaces interior for activities interior…
while all Benicia anticipates another majestically woozy iteration of Downtown Promotion;
Yee, haw.
[view of Benicia whilst BeerWalking]
Can’t wait…
But, while waiting, we make the weekly pilgrimage to Oakland for yet another Event, then another Sunday doggie morning among cars
with no sun
but with a visit from two two-time Afghan veterans, one a helicopter pilot now and the other, our son, leaving for Kuwait next week while I, in contemplation of a possible attempt
to reach Wall Spring, haunt the weather sites.
well we’ll see…all going down.
etc.
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My I have your permission to crib the Laurie Anderson quote for my small-circulation Facebook page?
Fine with me; maybe you’d better ask Laurie…it’s the first song on that album, and a good one…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A89kLVOn8_w
I think we are almost at the point where we all need Miles Davis buttons directly wired to our brains.
Fast approaching it!
I was at the Blackhawk for one of those Saturdays; it would nice to be there on any of these rainy nights.
I was there one of those nights as well, with a high school friend who was out on spring break from his first year at Wesleyan…during that trip we laid plans to drive his Jeep to Central America the next summer, and did, though only got as far as El Salvador.
The two cd’s [ok; antiquated technologies, I know] I have are Friday Night and Saturday night; Friday’s in rotation here in the house on the desert but Saturday’s been in the truck forever. Ah, a rainy night at the Blackhawk; can’t get enough of that long gone scene…
Yes, I would love one of those buttons. Your mention of the Blackhawk reminded me about going there as a high school student to hear the Modern Jazz Quartet. They had a special caged off section for minors. I was accompanied by one of the very nice medical students who lived at our house.
The button is called “CD” which goes directly to Miles, the only CD in there…very helpful.