Reliving the past is often a waste of our precious time. Except when you have amnesia and can't remember what happened.
Sometimes it's necessary to go back and try to figure out events from long ago that have been erased.
Children should not be loaded onto planes and sent to foreign countries and expected to conduct business on behalf of third parties. Let's start there.
A Losing Streak Home ▼ Saturday, July 27, 2019 The Last Time This is not what I remember because I remember almost nothing. But this is what I can piece together from the available facts, a video, and a dream I had about 10 years ago. I was 14 years old and living at my parents' house in the suburbs of Montreal. It could have been a Saturday afternoon. My father and brother were not around and my mother was in the kitchen at the sink looking out the window. She said, "There's someone here to see you. Go let him in." I stopped whatever I was doing and went to open the front door, and there was Mick Jagger. My first impression was that he'd recently had a haircut looked neater than when I'd last seen him, probably months earlier, probably on the T.A.M.I. show which my friends all watched on TV. I opened the outer screen door and he stepped into the entrance and stood for a moment in the hall next to the living room, looking around. He was 21, very polite a...
Dear Ann, I've heard a more recent podcast by you talking about your family. Here's the quote: "The connections are all there, if people want to find them, you know. I can just talk & talk, um, you know. And I'm not going to get into the rock star (laughs) aspect of it, but that's part of it. And my father was a musician and he was a music teacher in Montreal and he knew people in the jazz scene. He knew Oscar Peterson, and so on. He knew Maynard Fergusson early, people in the jazz scene. He also had a brother who worked in Chicago in & Detroit with black entertainers. So my family were positioned to be part of the music (um, ah) arm, (laughs) the musical arm. And there were rock stars being programmed at McGill when I was there. And it's just part of our, you know, our youth rebellion. Psychedelic culture was a controlled, in many ways, a controlled military program and kids were flown around. Kids who were chosen, for example, in the UK could be f...
But b efore I forget Leaving Rock Dreams I entered the Twilight Zone of Covid quarantines and bans on travel. I holed up in a motel and then a trailer park next door to the Rockies with only tree planters and bears as neighbors. I continued receiving messages from "Mick Jagger" or his proxies, or people posing as Mick to defraud me of my pension. I also got more sincere-sounding personal texts, inviting me to join his extended family Finally, in frustration, I gave up. I said "You don't understand-- I don't remember you. I can't pretend I do. I don't." After that, all messages stopped and for months there was an eerie silence. I had punctured the membrane that held our whole world in a soft embrace. I had exposed the truth about myself: that I was a zombie victim of childhood brainwashing. Not exactly crazy, just totally missing from the scene of my whole life. I had never understood a single word of a single song directed at me, or my mother. Not ...
ReplyDeleteReliving the past is often a waste of our precious time. Except when you have amnesia and can't remember what happened.
Sometimes it's necessary to go back and try to figure out events from long ago that have been erased.
Children should not be loaded onto planes and sent to foreign countries and expected to conduct business on behalf of third parties. Let's start there.
Time waits for no one