While I was packing, preparing to move, I was listening to my iPod on 'shuffle', like always, and right in the middle of a song (Blues Traveler, i think, but I'm not sure) it cut off and David Bowie started to play.
Two things are weird about this occurrence: iPods don't skip, and my stepfather (dad) loved David Bowie. The only reason David Bowie is on my iPod is because I made a CD that played during his viewing, which included several David Bowie songs. I listened to many songs thoroughly, carefully, choosing.
*I have over 1,000 songs on my iPod currently, so it's a decent shuffle--right??
Anyway, one night (taking the long way home) I got to thinking about him and his spirit and where he chooses to fly. I tend to speak to spirits aloud because I think that they will respond or listen to our requests. I'm sure it sounds weird, but it is me, so it is weird.
I said, "I dig that you're hangin' out, but please don't scare me." I was just getting ready to move to a house on a 13 acre farm, I didn't need the extra spook. The house has been great--the last two nights I have heard different sounds, but I haven't determined if they are house sounds or creature sounds.
Anyway, I have to get back on track, my tangents are annoying me--I'm sure they're annoying anyone who happens to be reading this.
Now, when I sit in my new house and listen to shuffle, I feel like it has moods. I've said that about the "shuffle" option for years. You can almost sense the type of mood it's in. Sometimes it'll play a ton of jazz, blues, and r&b, some days weird Al comes on a lot, or Dave Matthews will come on a ton or not at all...i don't know. But I can't help but think that whenever a song from his album or a David bowie song comes on that he's in the room or even just passing through...
I guess it's all in my perception (ah, both a realist and a mystic--I break my own heart).
During this post:
Deep Banana Blackout (funky jam band)
Half Brass (instrumental jazz big band)
Spin Doctors
Dixie Chicks
Elton John
The Wreckers (Country--Michelle Branche and some other chick--they're pretty good. I don't really get into country other than Dixie Chicks.)
4 comments:
I totally feel ya on this post. I am trying to remember the circumstances, but I totally had my grandma interrupt my iPod once. To give some bacground, my grandma died on my 23rd birthday, on 2/23. So she shows me that number here and there. I think my iPod froze in the middle of a song and stopped directly at 2:23 seconds into the song, with 2:23 seconds left. And it was either a song that I related to her, or had a line that made me think of her...something. Anyway, I'm not above thinking that my grandma, on the other side, will make communication any way she can. (I'm a huge John Edward/Crossing Over person.)
Yeah, you and I have definitely talked about our experiences, etc. That 2:23 thing is pretty wild. Hey, did you see I made a "shout out" to you on the "Other" blog's poll?? teehee
Hmm . . . well it happens eh?
One thing I enjoy about blogs is seeing where they started and seeing where they are going and where they are at. It was an interesting beginning--especially the "bad things happen in threes."
After reading your comment, I looked back on the beginning of this blog, and it WAS interesting. I was going through a very negative time then, and to think, the anniversary of my stepfather's death just passed, so to read the poetry that I wrote then is interesting as well...I haven't read it since then.
Reading the posts from last year make me realize how far I've come. This year has spun entirely upside down (or right-side up?). I'm finally becoming a happy person again...I feel refreshed. Thank you for prompting me to re-read some past posts. Take care, and keep reading! I know I haven't posted for a while, but I will...
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