1) I really like Fleetwood Mac. So much so that I call them "Tha Fleet" both affectionately and with reverence.
2) I really, really like u2. So much so that I call them "Tha Fleet" both affectionately and with reverence. Also I really still am convinced that I can grow up one day to be Bono.
(HELLO HELLO! See, that's me practicing to be Bono.)
Besides, this was right as the Barenaked Ladies' Rock Spectacle live album was just starting to get a push, mainly on heels of that one single on there about the fat dude from Animal Collective going belly-up at a Chinese buffet, what was it called...oh, yeah, "Brian Wilson".
Anyway, Barenaked Ladies were coming to Atlanta on tour right around the time of Miss M's birthday, and so I thought, like the good puppy dog boyfriend I was at the time, I'd get tickets for us to go see them. The morning of the ticket on-sale date, I went to my local Ticketbastard affiliate (aka the grocery store across the street from the trailer park, excuse me, mobile home community) and proceeded to ask the woman behind the customer service desk for two tickets to the Barenaked Ladies.
Her mouth dropped. "Son, what you wanna see?" she asked me.
"Um, the Barenaked Ladies. Two tickets, please, to the Bare.."
I couldn't finish. She was laughing so hard tears were streaming down her face. "Y'all be wantin' to see some buttnekkid women? Charlene, Charlene get outta the office and come out here, this kid wants tickets to see some buttnekkid women!"
Needless to say, Charlene came out and also marveled at the fact that I was apparently willing to pay $25 plus service charge for tickets to see some, ahem, unclothed members of the female persuasion. They laughed. They hooted. They hollered. They slapped various parts of their very large bodies and chuckled 'til we were all red-faced. Make no mistake, though, I was not amused.
(I was also probably wearing an Indigo Girls t-shirt at the time, which makes things all the worse, always. )
The show was sold out anyway.
All of this is a roundabout way of introducing the fact that, a week and a day prior to relocating from Atlanta to New York (you know, the place they make the salsa), there are a couple of photos from my Flickr account that I need, for my own emotional sanity and mental house-keeping, to put here and caption.
Soundtracked, appropriately, by...
....the Barenaked Ladies' song "The Old Apartment"
The Old Apartment (Live Album Version) - BARENAKED LADIES
As we were cleaning out the industrial, converted-icehouse studio that had held our lives for the past 2/12 years, for me, this song kept playing in my head. A friend/excellent photographer and I recently went back to Icehouse take photos of me (everyone needs professional-quality Facebook photos, yes?), and it started up again. Probably because, like the song's narrator details, the location of past-home holds a certain romance for all the trials, tribulation and heartbreak contained therein. "Broke into the old apartment/this is where we used to live", and all that.
(SHUT UP IT'S DEEP AND MEANINGFUL RIGHT NOW TO ME)
And, despite the mom-jam status that Barenaked Ladies have, well, the song's not leaving my head any time soon.
Thing 1 and Thing 2, respectively (aka the reason for this post, aka documents submitted for your review regarding what once was):
Thing 1
A living-room dumpster scene made with all the Ikea furniture that didn't go with us. That lamp, man, if I could tell you how far that lamp has traveled with me...it's heartbreak, it's change, it's art. I call it "Merriweather Post Pavilion".
Thing 2
This, indeed, is the old apartment. Taken at 10am on the 27th of Feb, 2009. I then shut that door for the last time.
(get it, it's a metaphor?)
In the words of the Barenaked Ladies:
Only memories, fading memories
Blending into dull tableaux
It's all different from here.
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