Have Read (Seen, Listened To, Will Miss), Friday is back.
I’ve had one of my old NYU friends visiting. I brought her back from the sea as a matter of fact, so she has been here awhile. She’s leaving tomorrow. I will miss her. If it weren’t for her tendency to ridicule those who wear last years shoes and read last years books — I had copy of Chronic City on the table, and pair of Giuseppe Zanotti low heel slide mules from 2009 on my feet, and she was appalled — I’d miss her even more.
I have read Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression. If you are contemplating reading about that desolate time this is the book for you. It’s like that huge piece of Tiramisu, almost too much good stuff.
I’ve listened to, and seen a band of old men playing Hey Joe in the back of a brewery. They were close to awesome.
I wish I had more for you, but I’ve been dealing with a close encounter crisis. I’m caring for a panic stricken crazy person friend who drove over here earlier this evening. This friend practices something called transcendental meditation. She goes to TM meetings weekly, is more or less in training — as she tells it. This poor creature had been meditating at home, like she does every night, when she apparently went into a deep trance. She had what she said was an out of body experience, was floating above her body, and could see herself on the side of her bed and she couldn’t get back.
Despite this whole situation sounding to me as if she fell asleep and had a dream from which she couldn’t initially wake up, I couldn’t dissuade her. She insists it was something much more insidious, the reaper around the corner, death on her doorstep. Whatever it was she has to stay here the night because she doesn’t want to be alone.
I will miss the gin and tonic that Ive just drained. You can’t blame me really, considering the company I am keeping.
Peace, from a reaper deterrent wearing last years mules.
Crazy people are firends indeed. Like Jimi.
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I’ve had that experience before, except I chalked mine up to a sinister spirit keeping me pinned in my own body. I could feel myself awake, but I couldn’t get my body to get up. It literally felt like something was keeping me pinned to the body, paralyzed. It didn’t feel like I was there for minutes; it felt like hours.
You could say I freaked out after I was able to wake myself up. I couldn’t sleep very well for the whole week after too.
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I wouldn’t sleep well in that case either. Sleep is an interesting thing – almost living..organic
Have read “In Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman”, seen and listened to Riemann band, and will miss my friend A when she goes back to the city.
I believe in out of body, usually happens when i am over tired.
My books are old, but my clothing is older. ;)
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Sounds like a good book.
In college I was given some kind of pain killer after an ankle sprain. It was way too strong a pain killer for the condition. I took two, fell asleep.
I woke up, or at thought I was up, and heard someone coming in the front door of my apartment. I couldn’t really see anything and I couldn’t move. I lay there in a petrified paralyzed half sleep for what seemed like hours waiting for an ax to fall. Scary.
I stick to Tylenol now.
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Pain killlers that are not OTC are not my thing either.
Heya just left you a meme on my blog :)
http://carlyfindlay.blogspot.com/2010/07/meme-from-you-to-me-to-you.html
I will certainly try to give it a go soon Carly.
If you really want to read a last year’s type of book, may I suggest “The Varieties of History: From Voltaire to the Present” by Fritz Stern? Not a book for folks like Glenn Beck who like their print large.
Out-of-bodies are not a bad thing, provided you get back into the body before you awake.
I always assumed if you didn’t get back in your body you couldn’t wake but…then again ..
Some people have their standards. For some it’s footwear, but for me it’s bad breathe, and body odor. I don’t care what people wear so long as they don’t stink. I’ve met several people that were quite knowledgeable in books, and fashion but smelled like sh*t, and that is what I remembered most.
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I hear you on that one. Nasty dirty mouths bother me a lot.
I’d be happy to wear ” 2009 Giuseppe Zanotti low heel slide mules” if I could afford them. I bet your mother sent them to you.
I agree, your friend probably fell asleep. I’ve heard people having experiences like that before when not practicing meditation and it is frightening. I’ve never had one of those experiences thank god. but I have had similar things happen in what I know was a dream.
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You make me laugh Cooper. The Depression was one of my many obsessions. Panic attacks are more than just an obsession–though not at your age :)
Last years mules, wow. I get more compliments on my Botticelli Angel mules and I’ve had them since the year of the Ought–only wear them to planes–TSA people, airplane people and people going on them, love them. Says something about me I don’t want to analyze
I’m glad she didn’t do any serious closet investigating.
Well sticking with your musical tastes you should be able to tell her not to fear the reaper. I actually believe she had an out of body experience, tell her not to be frightened of it and do research on it you’ll find there is a lot of material on the subject.
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Too late, her freak out was complete, and I doubt anyone could have really made her feel better. It’s significance was diminished greatly by her the next day and by now she is remembering it only as a story to tell.
A trance like state in which you dream is what happened to her and, as is the case with dreams, the state is sometimes hard to come out of. In these states people can imiagine they are floating in the air over their bodies looking down.
Reading about the Great Depression sounds depressing. ;)
Last year’s mules? No………………………..
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Yea a dream for sure.
You lost me at Giuseppe, but found me again at transcendental meditation.
I have felt like I was floating before, but I think only when I’ve been taking Lortabs.
I have seen/listened to the Jimmy Buffett concert at Gulf Shores last night. Wished I was there. I’ve bucket-listed seeing him in concert, and really am not sure why I haven’t long before now.
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You got me on Lortabs. I don’t do medicine well, I hallucinated once in college after taking too much NyQuil.
I can see you as someone who mediates though. Runners often do… not me I get my TM on the run…;)
I can see you as a Buffet fan… surprised you have not seen him. I would think that you’d better do it soon tough isn’t he pretty old…
I’m also big-mouthed GreenLady7 on BC. I loved your story. It was light and breezy, funny and rueful, and I can tell you’re very fond of your friends, who probably feel very lucky to have you. Oy’ll be back. ;-)
I got a dancing-kitty-with-headphones avatar? Oh, that’s so cute. Thanks. That’s a nice touch I haven’t seen elsewhere. Clever!
I am fortunate to have chosen my friends well…an odd bunch but I’d have it no other way.
Welcome, do stop by again.