Mine Happens to be Hailie's Song

I sit here, iTunes playing, dog at my feet, truly wanting to have something to write about. The urge is great, yet the mind is blank. Thoughts that creep in and out of my head are as follows... my dog sure has a lot of hair now... how much hair is too much... there really is a lot of hair in my life... shaving... washing... brushing... vacuuming... why are people so obsessed with hair, removal on some body parts, regrowth on others... how does location change hair from sexy to disgusting... stop thinking about hair... you should try poetry... you suck at poetry... what about the airplane related stories you want to write... **insert image of recent flight in which the cabin filled with smoke after take off**... just write about what you are thinking...

And tada! Here we are folks. Stream of consciousness. Its a magical thing really. And so easily influenced by external stimuli. For instance, I am now listening to Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones. It makes me think about playing pool. And Native American pow-wows and not being allowed to drunkenly participate in the inter-tribal dance. Perhaps the next song will be by Nelly Furtado and I will be shot back to California, driving along 156 heading toward the 101 and up to San Jose to visit someone who should never have meant as much to me as he did. Or perhaps Lloyd or Daddy Yankee will make me want to go back to NYC for some serious booty shaking and 'no dyke drama on the pier tonight.' Instead, it is Krishna Das. Baba Hanuman. The song that I am convinced is the answer to world peace. No one can possibly feel anything but complete calm and happiness if they can just sit still and absorb the song.

In a very stream of consciousness fashion... can anyone tell me what a license plate that says WFB3R means? I would tell you what I think, but I don't want to lead anyone on the off chance that anyone chooses to answer me.

Also, can anyone explain why the city council of Scottsdale, Arizona would choose to put a sign that says 'Welcome to Scottsdale, America's most livable city" right in front of a cemetery?

Where was I? Oh yes... now we are on to Pat Benatar. It used to make me think of my cousin who really liked her. Now it makes me think of 'shake and bake' and the fighting chicken. Music can be an enormously powerful thing. I find that it tends to enhance the sad, negative, and angry in people more than the happy, positive, and friendly. We all have a therapy song. Mine happens to be Hailie's Song by Eminem. Perhaps I am aware that I am susceptible to the powers of music when it comes to altering the state of your mind and that is why I choose mindless rap, hip hop, and electronic music that makes my brain shut down and my body move. This could even explain why I love 60's and 70's rock. It isn't violently angry, but it still makes me move my hips when I walk.

So, I guess the lessons we have learned through the surprisingly focused ramblings of my mind are as follows:
1. If you start writing, something really will come.
2. Someone might be advertising that they are a wifebeater (WFB3R - you tell me). Or maybe they just work for beer.
3. Scottsdale needs more 'noticey' people around to prevent such horrible sign placement.
4. Krishna Das should be the next Secretary of State.
5. Back hair really is grosser than hair on your head.

Comments: 10

Lisa J Mar 23, 2008, 9:36pm EDT

Wife Beater was my first thought, too. What I liked most about this is that it SOOO demonstrates female thinking. K cannot understand how we might be discussing planting corn and I will end up telling him how great Pink Floyd is. I mean, the realtionship is so obvious, isn't it?

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Lynn Doiron Mar 24, 2008, 12:34pm EDT

I like the easiness of this; I often think the easier a piece is to write, then the easier that piece is for the reader to read. It's like, the writing is not so full of itself like it sometimes gets when I overwork the language, going for that superior syntax or artsy alliteration ---- which, very often, works on some level but, even more often, comes across as artifice, as here. And will stop my babble by just saying thank you for letting me inside your interesting thoughts.

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Ricky Fico Mar 24, 2008, 1:36pm EDT

Everybody knows that license plate WFB3R is simply a diversionary tactic used to imply vanity when really it does nothing more than guarantee an arrest because that is the same license plate that's been observed outside many banks during major robberies as well as the license plate that had been seen on numerous occasion outside the local brothel owned by the Governor's brother who just bought a new home in Scottsdale right down from the cemetery for he figured he wouldn't have too far to go, just in case; he's a man who prides himself on his preparedness though he wasn't prepared that time the IRS guy came knocking on his door, selling cookies; that was too bad he didn't have any money in his cookie jar because what was being hawked were the best damn cookies outside Poughkeepsie, the place he used to live while a young lad and as a young lad he often went fishing along the stream of consciousness, though many times he didn't catch a thing except for the occasional cold which he tried to keep hot by heading to the beach where there were plenty of bikini-clad babes who helped divert his attention while the pick-pockets picked his pants pockets as they lay there unadorned on the beach blanket next to him and now I think it time I grab some lunch, maybe a tuna sandwich with marshmallows.

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David S. Mar 25, 2008, 11:27pm EDT

If you write it, thoughts will come....

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Fandulin S. Mar 27, 2008, 9:03pm EDT

Very nice mental travelogue, via writing! It reminds me of Bilbo Baggins old saying: "It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door...You stop into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to." But when it comes to writing, the danger is the fun part :)

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Zara Stevens Apr 6, 2008, 9:03pm EDT

This was great!
The mind can follow some strange (but fun!) paths...

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Wade A. Apr 8, 2008, 4:43am EDT

Also, can anyone explain why the city council of Scottsdale, Arizona would choose to put a sign that says 'Welcome to Scottsdale, America's most livable city" right in front of a cemetery?

Irony, sheer irony.

Nice journey!

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