Day 8
TODAY'S SONG:
"Get Lost" by Tom Waits
The
first thing my iTunes actually landed on was “Beret and Pancakes”
by Mitch Hedberg. But since that is a comedy routine and not a song,
I decided to skip it and move on to the next track. And frankly I'm
glad I did. I like Mitch Hedberg a lot, but I love Tom Waits.
“Get
Lost” is from Bad As Me,
the most recent Waits studio release. It also happened to come out
right around the time that Kayleigh and I had moved back to Buffalo
and I had started going to grad school. There was a website
streaming the album before it was available for purchase, so I ended
up listening to it a lot while I was reading for my classes. I
didn't have my bike with me yet, so I did a lot of walking back and
forth from my apartment down Elmwood Ave to the Buff State library.
I really enjoyed all the isolated desks that they had there. It was
always very quiet and underutilized. After I had finished my
readings and prepared for class, I would look around at some of the
weird books they had on theology and sociology. I thought to myself,
“One of these days, I'm gonna come back here and just read these,
one by one.” Well, I graduated a little over a year ago and have
not been back since.
Anyway,
I've got a huge list hanging on my wall of all the books I want to
read. We also go to any of the several area libraries at least once
every week so I've always got a stack to peruse here at home. Also,
my feverish need to learn about philosophy has significantly decreased in the past decade. I watched I Heart Huckabees
last night, a movie about existential detectives, so this is kind of
fresh on my mind. When that movie came out in 2004, I was really
interested in some of the philosophical questions it presented. Now
I feel pretty comfortable with what I've got figured out about life
and none of those big picture questions, like “Why are we here?”
and “Why do bad things happen to good people?”, are troublesome
at all.
Rest
in peace, Mitch.
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