Serendipity

Serendipity- here’s what you should try: watch ‘Star Trek: Nemesis’ while listening to Aimee Mann’s ‘Lost in Space’ Maybe this album works with any movie, but this one fits very well. This movie sucks, but with Aimee way up loud, you can picture word balloons coming from the characters’ mouths, which would improve things more than somewhat. I cannot imagine that i once got a rush from Kate Capshaw playing Maggie the Cat at Syracuse Stage, but Counselor Troi (the Counselor With the Big Big Eyes) looks more beautiful than ever.
Hey, this works pretty well with The Church too.
The iPod is The Shuffle Mode of the Gods, the long-wished-for Radio Station of Me, What Music Would Sound Like If I Had Any Say. I have something like 850 songs on it, nearly 2 solid days of music. And even that seems not enough.
This new replacement for my Palm, the Audiovox Thera, is working out well enough. Having huge problems synching it, but it adds lots of features (like guessing words so I don’t have to write them fully . Wireless web access rocks! Too bad I’m such a good typist (90 wpm) that anything else will always be too slow
‘the moth don’t care if the flame is real.’ – Aimee
Hannah is so much my daughter — these days she’s constantly making up wordplay jokes. ‘What does a pig put on a boo-boo? Oinkment!’
Last night she came along with me to the drugstore, and while we were getting checked out, ‘Long December’ by Counting Crows came on. I said, ‘I hear this song everywhere I go,’ which has been true, plus it was featured in a Warren Miller tape we’ve seen a number of times this winter. And she asked, ‘Do you like it?’ which for some reason struck me as an interesting question. Then she sang along to an Elvis Costello song on the way home. A very interesting little girl.
Hey, remember this: we’ve got tickets to Marshall Crenshaw for Saturday night! Can’t wait. Saw him a couple of years ago at Belleayre, and he totally rocked. (Hey, does anybody else have rules about not listening to an artist for the five or six days prior to seeing him or her in concert? No? Then I won’t even ask about playing contrasting music during the ride there and back.)