The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Like acid and oil on a madman's face
His reason tends to fly away

Like lesser birds on the four winds
Like silver scrapes in May
Now the sands become a crust
And most of you have gone away

Come Susy dear, let's take a walk
Just out there upon the beach
I know you'll soon be married
And you want to know where the winds come from

Well it's never said at all
On the map that Carrie reads
Behind the clock back there you know
At the four winds bar

Hey, hey, hey, hey
Four winds at the four winds bar
Two doors locked and windows barred
One door let to take you in
The other one just mirrors it
Hey, hey, hey, hey

In hellish glare and inference
The other one's a duplicate
The queenly flux, eternal light
Or the light that never warms (repeat twice)

The clock strikes twelve and moondrops burst
Out at you from their hiding place
Miss Carrie nurse and Suzy dear
Would find themselves at the four winds bar

It's the nexus of the crisis
The origin of storms
Just the place to hopelessly
Encounter time and then came me
Hey, hey, hey, hey

Call me Desdenova, eternal light
These gravely digs of mine
Will surely prove a sight
And don't forget my dog, fixed and consequent

Astronomy...a star (repeat indefinitely)

old age rant

I am 46. In the past whenever I have gotten sick I have taken no cold medicine. Pound water, dose on vitamin C, and drink a tumbler of Bourbon before bed. This time was different. I tried all my tricks and still was not getting well. It was like being on a roller coaster of feeling better, then feeling like shit for almost a month. It culminated in a visit to the emergency room. For three days prior I had been sleeping in my reclining chair because whenever I laid down flat I was overcome with coughing fits. On Monday 4-5 I woke up and couldn't catch my breath. I could hear the fluid gurgling in my lungs. My heart was beating way to rapidly. I knew I needed to go to the emergency room. When I got there I had to park a block away because the parking right in front is a joke. The walk in was hard. I felt like I was 70. My body felt shaky and I was concentrating on my breathing and hearing my heart beat. I thought to myself "well if I drop here they will probably find me in time". Scary shit. Long story short. I was given respiratory therapy, antibiotics, inhaler, cough medicine, and three more days of downtime. I didn't feel myself until day 9 on the antibiotics.
I don't know what the point of this rant is. Other than to maybe remind myself that I need take better care of myself now that I am getting older. 46 isn't "old", but I can see that i don't have the recuperative powers that I did when I was 20. Thank Science for antibiotics. If this would have been 1900 I might have gone down. They are amazing.

old man rant

I love my 50" Pioneer Kuro and Blueray player. The picture is amazing. Yet my son is willing to watch "Zombieland" on his Ipod touch. It seems that he is willing to give up quality for convenience. I am not going to debate the LP to CD conversion. I think that analog LP's sounded better than digital CD's. But Whatever. However when we accepted buying MP3's at 192AAC bitrate instead of the full quality at 420 (or whatever it is). That is noticeable. It's not like I have golden ears, but the music is not as dynamic. I remember listening to Pink Floyd "Dark side of the Moon" in High School and hearing chairs moving, breathing, and subtle vocalizations in the background. Technically not necessary for hearing the song, but adds to the experience. It's sort of like the difference between seeing a print of a piece of art, and then getting to see it in person. Seeing the actual brush strokes enhances the experience. I digress. What I am trying to say is we have a new medium in HD that is able to amazingly enhance TV and movies much like groups like Pink Floyd were able to utilize technology with music in the 70's to create amazing stuff. I am not saying that HD and Blueray are the end of this process. I am just asking that you please embrace this direction and buy a HD TV, and a Blueray player so we don't wind up with the "good enough" generations future.