the imploding cabbage tesuji
What’s been playing in my head for THE PAST WEEK is ‘8 miles high’ by them byrds. I missed the actual release of this tune back in the 1960s, only discovering the band during my college years in the 1970s. The song got retriggered when I heard it at Zeitgeist a week ago and darn if it isn’t still firmly lodged in me head, playing incessantly. I don’t even remember the whole song, it’s just the beginning that keeps repeating. I guess you could say this tune has legs.
Makes me reflect that the tunes one hears during highschool and college years stick with you pretty much your whole life. And not just the ones you like either (luckily I like this one).
And the cabbage: Suzan cut open what appeared to be a normal green head of cabbage t’other nite only to discover an ingrown stem taking up most of the bottom portion, leaving only the top 20-30 percent packed full of leaves like a normal head. We were shocked.