Tap…tap…tap… is this thing on?

August 31, 2009 on 2:32 pm | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Backstage Pass, General Musing

I was practicing a new piano arrangement of my song “Atlanta Nights.” It’s a song about calling up someone you’ve fallen out of touch with. You know how it goes. You don’t call. Time passes. More time passes. After a while it’s awkward to call. What would I say? What could be important enough to pick up the phone after all this time? Will I have to explain why I fell of the face of the earth?

So you put it off longer.

I have this whole song about it and I STILL don’t pick up the phone. It’s a special sort of irony when the person you wrote a song about getting in touch with is someone you haven’t gotten in touch with for FIVE YEARS.

So I finally looked her up. She’s moved from Atlanta to Charlotte, but Googled up just fine. And I did pick up the phone and punch in the numbers. She was there… and delighted (if surprised) to hear from me. The first few minutes were a little awkward, but soon it was like old times.

So here I am at the blog again. It hasn’t been five years, but it still seems awkward. What can possibly be interesting enough after nearly three weeks? Maybe the important thing is to just start. It’s what comes next that counts.

Atlanta Nights
by Eva Moon

Today as I walked through a crowded room
I heard someone laugh and it sounded just like you
All at once you are there in my mind
And it takes me back to another time

And I can’t forget those Atlanta nights
How we talked and laughed ‘til the morning light
I called you up just to hear your voice again
Do you think of me?

I never know what’ll make me think of you
A taste of wine or the curve of the moon
Years slip away but memory stays the same
And I still look up when I hear your name

And I can’t forget those Atlanta nights
How we talked and laughed ‘til the morning light
I called you up just to hear your voice again
Do you think of me?

It’s been too long, so I’ll just say it plain
It would fill my heart to see you again

And I can’t forget those Atlanta nights
How we talked and laughed ‘til the morning light
I called you up just to hear your voice again
Do you think of me?

You will always be…

Hey, Babs!

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CD-O-Matic

August 11, 2009 on 8:40 am | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Found, General Musing, In the news, Music

Anyone can create an awesome CD with a few simple steps. This comes from a friend on Facebook:

  1. Go to “wikipedia.” Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random. The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
  2. Go to “Random quotations” or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
  3. Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days” or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days. Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
  4. Use photoshop or similar to put it all together. (if you don’t have it, here’s an online photo editor: pixlr.com)

Voila! Your new CD!

Here’s mine:

That was so easy. Why did I waste two whole years on my last CD?

Oh wait… the music…

(photo credit: _Beat_)

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Live and Let Hive?

August 8, 2009 on 8:24 am | Join the conversation. You know you want to. | In Food, Found, General Musing

Wasps have built a rather impressive nest in the eaves near our front door. I know I ought to get rid of it. Wasps are the enemy right? But the thing is, they are keeping to themselves as far as I can tell. I walk right past it several times a day but I’ve never encountered a wasp at person-level. No one else has been accosted by them either. Honestly, I’m not a fan of stinging insects, but I want to just let them stay as long as they behave.

Am I missing something here? Will they get ornery as the summer wanes? Will they bring in their low-life cousins to squat on our property? Will their nest harm the wood? Do wasps do any good in the ecosystem? Are they pollinators, like bees? Or disease-carrying menaces like mosquitoes?

When my kids were little in Atlanta, school started up late one summer with the discovery of an enormous wasp nest built right on the glass of the second grade classroom window. It was amazing. The kids had a full cross-section inside view of the inner workings and the whole school was buzzing with excitement about it. You could see everything about wasp society in action. The classroom was in a far corner of the building away from the playground and parking lot. The teacher (and most of the kids and some of the parents) lobbied for a stay of execution. But of course the admin and legal types got involved and the nest was gone within a week.

Maybe this is a chance to atone for that past injustice.

Or maybe they’re pernicious pests that ought not to be encouraged.

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