Today, I was on my way to class, and I felt the warm sun on my face a bit, which made me walk more in the light than I had been. Once in the light, I had to squint a bit, because the sun was too bright for my sun-starved winter eyes. But when I looked in the air at the brightness, I saw something floating. It was a red balloon. One single red balloon, floating.
When I was young and in school, our teacher showed us a movie called “The Red Balloon“, which was this movie without words about a boy and his balloon, and the people who wanted to take it. Also, the balloon and him have some strange connection that makes it follow him around. This is all by memory, I haven’t watched the video for 20 years.
Anyways, I was vaguely reminded that I wrote a song about that balloon in 2001; a rap song, written for a rap group I was in called “The Endless Attic.” Here is the song:
Here are some funny clips I gathered while in Minnesota visiting family….
The first one was in the middle of a blizzard, stuck in my Mom’s house, listening to the radio. Everyone was freaking out because of the storm, and it was Christmas Eve. This was the radio broadcast. I just thought it was funny to listen to…. Church_Cancelled
And the second clip is of my nephew, Kieran. He was messing around with this kid’s software, which is used to make art and stuff. He figured out that he could make it talk. It’s basically just the default Mac OS voices for speech, but he’s making it say really funny stuff. Kieran_Laughing
Lyra is my next door neighbor, and is the daughter of my old old friend, Alison. She’s pretty surly and awesome (like her momma!) She likes to come over and beat up my plants and knock all my knick knacks around. I pretend to care, but it’s not a big deal.
