prematurely grey

This is the mystery of Thanksgiving. We were driving to the airport listening to KGSR last Tuesday morning. It was sunny and nice and I was worried that we’d be late (completely neurotic and unfounded–point, Chris).Brian Beck had come on and he was playing good songs over and over. Chris kept saying, “Song of the Day. Song of the Day.” Then Brian played one that I agreed would be SOTD.

I have absolutely no idea what the song was. None.

Here’s the puzzle: if I can’t remember it a week later, was it really a SOTD? Did I just hope it was in the moment? What is in fact the role of time in SOTD? Is there a difference between time and timing?

This all leads to the bigger questions: Does everyday have a SOTD? If a day doesn’t, did I just miss it? Or am I finding too many SOTD’s? Are they really rarer than I’m making it out to be.

Next we’re back to the observation/Heisenberg Principle issue again. Speaking of again, John A. is talking about the Chinese Pistash over on 35th Street again. It’s Thursday. I think I’ll stop writing and go check out this tree. He’s also reading a list of banned plants emailed by a native gardener listener. The list is mind-blowing–even John has some of the banned plants in his yard. He seems most disturbed by “wisteria.”

Makes me want to write in Transplanation. Makes me want to plant a garden of invasive foreigners. Makes me love my fotenia (which John doesn’t care for–well, excuuuuuse me) more than ever. Makes me want to declare that Native Nazi’s are the fundamentalists of gardening.

Now John is telling us that his next door neighbor has a mimosa–is this the gardening equivalent of naming names?

At least he’s playing a “nasty song” in response to all this: Rodney Crowell “Give It to Me.”

Here’s the bottom line: I have no idea what the SOTD might have been last Tuesday. Maybe it was Rodney Crowell (part of me thinks it was “Circles on the Sun”). Memory plays an important role in SOTD. I do have to remember the song. So far, it seems the SOTD usually has some previous association that makes it memorable. I’ve been trying to come up with songs of the day that I didn’t know already, but that’s more of me forcing/creating song of the day, and I’m seriously convinced that this goes against my revelation equals religion POV. Now we’re getting somewhere. Theology is a bitch.