I've Been Taken Too Far, I Cracked When I Tried To Press My Luck...

Nicole Atkins - War Torn


So today is my madre's birthday. So happy birthday Madre!! I came home last night just before midnight so as to play her a birthday song on the piano. I won't lie to you, it was great. Possibly the best song ever written.

Okay, fine. It was shitty, and I didn't "write" it, so much as I made it up as I went. But either way, happy birthday Madre!! Again!!


So let me tell you a little story. So I'm driving to my friend's grandparents' house to pick up my camera which somehow ended up there. Don't worry about how, it's a long, boring story. Anyhoo. So I'm driving. I'm in a pretty great mood, only brought down a little by the radio DJ saying that "Jack and Diane" was by John Mellencamp. "John Cougar!" I yelled at the radio, but to no avail. Damnation. But I managed to move past it.

So I get to the house, and retrieve my camera, but I can never pass up a chance to talk to old people that I don't really know. It's a problem, but I can't help myself. I just know that they know so much more shit than I do, and I like hearing about things that I don't know.

And we discussed everything: our favorite movies (answer: Rocky), what kind of funeral we'd like for ourselves (answer: New Orleans style) / what we'd like our headstones to look like (answer: generic, but with a super exciting epitaph) / would we want to be cremated (answer: no), what kind of apples make the best applesauce (answer: jonamac), would Johnny Carson have made a good President (answer: a resounding yes), etc. It was a magical time.

But alas, eventually I had to leave. So I was in a super mood as I drove home, but the gods decided it'd be funny to fuck with me a little. So when the song "Jack and Diane" came on a different radio station, and the DJ announced that it was by John Mellencamp, I almost smashed my car into a tree. Those bastards...