Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
In the perfumed armpit of time / Develop a debt now / These people are bricks / Six feet stones wrapped up and bowed / Such disappointment when the paper is ripped / So I stand still, boring and bored / Fetching my eye again / Against the wall…
I’m back in my Laurel Canyon garage, back at it again. After a couple of weeks off from The Idelic Hour, I’m back in the garage, “sticking around,” listening to cool songs, and thinking…likely thinking a touch too much.
In truth, not much and everything has happened in the last two weeks. I can’t remember an Idelic Hour of late where I wasn’t dedicating a song to someone who has “bought the farm.” File under: paying more attention since Bowie died. Well, how can you not? Especially in light of ”big brother” Trump and Spotify.
This week my phone died. I woke up and my device, “my buddy,” was simply dark. I went to Best Buy and purchased a replacement. When I turned it on, it asked me if I wanted Google to reinstall my apps. Within a few hours my entire life was restored. It was a creepy magic.
Much of the same internet “madness” could be found following the disappearance of Scott Hutchinson. Missing, then found—real life tragedies unfolding in our phones. Never would of thought of that back in day.
I guess if this week’s Idelic Hour has a simple message, it would be a simple “please stay.” I certainly want too. In all aspects of life, really. I want to just keep listening to beautiful songs. I wish that for everyone this week.
So, send a friend an “Idelic” song and stay a while.
Idelic Hit of the Week: Gaz Coombes – Shit (I’ve Done It Again)
