Analog!
You never know just how you look through other people's eyes.
I’ve gotten up a little early ahead of taking my car into the shop at Just Tires to get the air-conditioning fixed. So mundane, right? Meanwhile, I’m spinning a disc that I haven’t listened to because I had to get my turntable fixed. That’s done by hooking it up over an RCA to 3.5 plug gotten from Best Buy in an abortive attempt to get the car fixed last Tuesday.
I’ve already been in touch with my friend who I mentioned yesterday, a guy who teaches English at the University of Maryland. He was asking me my take on Brownsville Girl by Bob Dylan (and I just realized that I was mixing it up with Girl from the Red River Shore, oh well!) I shared this with him as I was tuning into Joyride by Karina Rykman:
Her cover of “Pepper” by the Butthole Surfers gave me my subtitle for this article and is one of the things that I am thinking of a good bit lately. I have no idea how I appear to others or even if I do. I’ve gotten to the stage where I really don’t mind. I’m content just to be in the world doing my thing with a good heart. The turntable is now spinning SPAGA Plays Dead which I haven’t been able to listen to until now. I caught SPAGA doing this performance live a couple of times back to back in June, 2023.
It’s good to live in an analog world. I’ve been digging into an article that has popped up about Sándor Kőrösi Csoma this morning also. He lived from 1784 until 1842 and put a lot of life into those years. His life story reminds me of my own travels and then of an article that I found here on Substack by Michael Shrieve:
I listened to this on Tuesday night after getting back to the house from my expedition to Just Tires over in Alexandria. I think everyone should. It helped me understand myself and the way I am. I’ve gotten to a similar point in life. I’m curious and I just follow my nose. I’m not very interested in whether or not its lucrative or not. I’ve had enough of chasing the dollar. I’m now chasing my life and wanting to pull others along with me into a curiousity, a sense of wonder, a state of awe.
I don’t know if any of you have an interest in that, but if you do, come along for the ride. It is a joy ride, after all, IF we let it be…and yes, people will suffer and die including us…but what a wonderful thing it is to exist at all, eh? Let’s get on with it.
Onward!
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