The Golden Child: Random Musings

            Have you ever dropped a credit card or a quarter in between the seat of your car and the center console?  This is perhaps the most treacherous terrain outside of that ice level from Mario Kart 64.  A credit card or license is really the only thing big enough to slide into this incredibly minute space, yet this seems to happen to me frequently.  A botched transition from a cell phone to the CD changer, an inadvertent sneeze during a drive thru transaction, or maybe I just lose a lot of shit in my car (Fuzzball)…any of these instances could result in a frustrating search and rescue operation.

            You immediately think, “god dammit” and ask your buddy if they saw where your card went.  Your first intuition is to look below the seat, but don’t kid yourself, you know you didn’t hear it hit the floorboard.  So you delicately pry the seat cushion away from the console and, joyfully, you see the corner of your card sticking up about halfway down the cushion.  However your initial happiness is immediately overwhelmed by your chagrin.  Here is the most pressing problem in this situation: if you stick your hand down into the space to retrieve the card, the cushion gets pushed farther away from the console, thus opening the space wider for the card to fall further into the crevice.  It’s like you’ve got opposite magnets and whenever you get close to touching the card it just falls further and further away.  Now eventually the card runs out of cushion and falls under the seat, but this is no picnic either.  What’s the deal with all that metal under there?  My arm has to bob and weave and dodge and duck so many times around those metal bars I feel like I’m trying to steal from a vending machine.  So anyways, it sucks when that happens.

Random Musings / Picks of the Week:

Music Picks:

            Sigur Ros: Track 3 – This song will play at the end of the movie made about me.

            The Dissociatives: Forever and a Day – Interesting combo of vocals and electronic

            symphony, capped by a children’s choir singing the chorus.  Cool.

            Bird York: Into the Deep – The title track from one of the most amazing movies I have ever

            seen, Crash.  This song plays during the montage at the end of the movie…very sad.

IMBD.com Spot-of-the-Week

I saw a show on Sci-Fi while channel surfing that featured Iceman from the X-Men series (Shawn Ashmore), Curtis from 24 (Roger Cross), and the dad from Dawson’s Creek (John Wesley Shipp).  Somebody beat that trio (it turns out it was some Outer Limits episode).

6 Degrees of the Golden Child

            My friends and I shut down a bar last week playing 6 Degrees.  Try these on for size (and no cheating on IMDB):

                        Meg Ryan to Diane Lane

                        Hillary Duff to Sean Connery

                        Denise Richards to Robert Redford

--Finally, somebody asked me last week if aliens came to Earth and you only had one song to give them for all of humanity, what would it be?  Well, mine is U2’s One.  For some reason I have to believe it is the single greatest “song” ever, even though I’m not a diehard U2 fan or anything like that.  I’m not sure what defines something like this, it’s got to be just your gut feeling.  How about you guys?

Comments

[jemison]

U2's "One" is one of my favorites to play on guitar.

[Fuzzball]

I can't even begin to think of what song I would recommend. I've been sitting here thinking of Beethoven, Mozart, The Beatles...I just don't know. I'll have to get back to you on that one.

[boo]

Good choice of songs... though i was thinking... U2's "beautiful day"... what you needed in your car... was those grabber things... make you really feel like you... were in an arcade... :)

[Gymshoes]

It's because you're not a die-hard U2 fan that you can choose "One"...I've been a fan of the band since their very beginning so it's much harder to choose. There was an 80s band called Poi Dog Pondering that had a song with a lyric like, "if I die in a car wreck, may I have Van Morrison on my tape deck". It was mentioned in a review with the reviewer applauding that choice of Van Morrison. I remember thinking, "No, it has to be U2", yet in the decades since then I've yet to settle on one song to play while the final credits roll. U2 has been and is the soundtrack of my life. If aliens came to earth I'd say, "listen to this, all of it...this is earth".

[Chris]

Keeping in mind the perameters are "one song to give them for ALL of humanity", tt shouldn't have lyrics, to begin with. Rock and roll/pop is too narrowly "Western".

Maybe something classical, which would at least avoid the issue of lyrics. "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" by Mozart? Or something by Vivaldi? You know, something amazingly beautiful, yet impressive, technically.

[Ern]

I couldn't agree with you more about the U2 song. I'd give them the live version that's like 8 minutes long. Best 8 minutes of music ever, IMO.