December 31 ~ New Years Eve (A world-wide celebration held on the night before the last day of society’s calendar; typically a time for people to get drunk as they bid goodbye to the passed year and ring in the new; a time for people to make resolutions they likely won’t keep) And speaking of waltzes...oh, how I do love an accordion! Tom Waits: “The door was open, I was seething. Your mother burst in, it was freezing. She said ‘it looks like it’s trying to rain’. I was lost, I felt sea sick. You convinced me that he’d left. You said keep talking, but don’t use any names. I scolded your driver and your brother. We are old enough to know how long you’ve been hooked. And we’ve all been through the war, and each time you score, someone gets hauled and handcuffed and booked. It felt like four in the morning, what sounded like fire works turned out to be just what it was. The stars looked like diamonds, and then came the sirens and everyone started to cuss. All the noise was disturbing and I couldn’t find Irving, it was like two stations on at the same time. And then I hid your car keys, and I made black coffee, and I dumped out the rest of the rum. Nick and Socorro broke up, and Candice wouldn’t shut up. Fin, he recorded the whole thing. Ray, he said damn you, and someone broke my camera. And it was New Years, and we all started to sing: ‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne’. I was leaving in the morning with Charles for Las Vegas, and I didn’t ever plan to come back. I had only a few things, two hundred dollars, and my records in a brown paper sack. I ran out on Sheila, everything’s in storage. Calvin’s right, I should go back to driving truck. ‘Should auld acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind. Should auld acquaintance be forgot for the sake of auld lang syne.’”
Posted on: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 21:09:02 +0000
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