Watch out for a bear in your garden. Or a bare gardener.In the last couple of days our coffee machine and upstairs bog have broken down, costing us a fortune. Just now we were watching TV and those two things had also packed up in the programme.
Things do come in threes, don't they? On TV a bear had got into the garden, ooer.
I was in a laid-back mood while getting ready for work, so I decided to listen to some Khruangbin. I had to find my original quote to remember how to spell them.This morning, around 8am-ish there was an ad for Corona featuring a really cool song by a band called Khruangbin (found out after a google search, I'd never heard of them before.)
About an hour later I dropped into my local WH Smith, and was looking at the free cd on this months Mojo, and there was a track by........Khruangbin!
Thinking of Someone and Then Meeting Unexpectedly
In the course of my research on the unexplained human abilities, more than 150 people have told me about an experience that I had never before seen discussed. To their surprise, they thought about a friend or acquaintance for no particular reason, and then shortly afterward met that person. No one thinks it strange if he meets someone he was expecting to meet, or someone he encounters frequently. It is with unexpected meetings that the phenomenon is so striking. For example, Andreas Thomopoulos, a film director from Athens, was visiting Paris with his wife. "Walking through the streets, we thought of a close student friend of mine in London. We wondered how he was nowadays since I hadn't seen him for over twenty years. Shortly after, on going around a corner, we bumped straight into him!" Mary Flanagan, of Hoboken, New Jersey, had a similar experience: "Walking down the street, I was thinking of someone I had not seen or spoken to for three years and who lives in a different city. I met her on the street about ten minutes after I started thinking about her."
Something tangentially related happened to me. I was reading one of Spike Milligan's war memoirs in which he recalls serving under an officer called Sebag-Montefiore. I thought, as you do, "odd name, can't be many people called that". A day or two later I took the book back to the library... and guess what I saw in the "Just returned" section - Jerusalem by Simon Sebag-Montefiore. Did a bit of digging - but alas, Simon is not related, except very distantly, the the Sebag-Montefiore who was Spike Milligan's commanding officer... so there are two branches of the family...This morning, I was in my local Waterstones, where I came across a book I'd never heard of before; 'Jerusalem' by Simon Sebag Montefiore.
About a couple of hours later, I was reading through another message board I frequent, and decided to look at the book section, something I don't do that often, when the same book was mentioned!
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'Don't fear the reaper' : A rather dark teenage suicide song about a depressive.
I'm surprised that it was allowed in the UK. I wonder how many kids killed themselves after listening to it.
INT21
Not as dark as all that. Donald Roeser ("Buck Dharma") wrote the words in a depressive spirit after being, as it turned out, misdiagnosed with a degenerative heart disease that would kill him within eighteen months. He wanted to get it out of his system, to turn what he thought would be a truncated life into something more positive, and the other guys in the band helped turn it into a working song. It's no accident that so many songs on those two LP's recorded at the time - Agents of Fortune and Spectres - have dark themes of death in various ways and encounters. (spills over into Fire of Un-known Origin, with its title track contributed by band collaborator Patti Smith - who herself had several enocounters with the Reaper) Thirty-odd years on he's still here, although two co-members of the original band have indeed been offered a personal opportunity not to fear the Reaper... interestingly enough when keyboards player Allen Lanier died a year or two ago, fans and friends shunned "RIP" and instead started using the abbrieviation "DTFR". I like this - that should be a meme. Roeser has said he's horrified at the misinterpretation of the song and says it's not about suicide at all - he meant it to be an acceptance of the fact that Death happens and that it's a transition to another state, and very definitely not a final ending... which right now is something to take comfort in.'Don't fear the reaper' : A rather dark teenage suicide song about a depressive.
I'm surprised that it was allowed in the UK. I wonder how many kids killed themselves after listening to it.
INT21
Which line is that?It's about coming to terms with grief and sadness. I have the relevant line as a tattoo.
Which line is that?
Do I have to get my bum out?
I'm not sure that's got anything to do with a song, it's just Scargy's 'thing'.Hmm, don't remember that. Are we talking about the same song?
I'm not sure that's got anything to do with a song, it's just Scargy's 'thing'.
I used to be married to someone like that.
Do I have to get my bum out?
Did she have a mole on her ass?