Gotta stand and face it / Life is so complicated February 4, 2008
Posted by charmingbutsingle in Advice People Give Me, Being Southern, Full of resolve, General Clumsiness and Related Stupidity, Songs I Can't Get Out Of My Head.trackback
The other day I was feeling grumpy. (Okay, I’ve been feeling grumpy many days recently, actually.) I tend to fly through things going 150 miles and hour and I’ve been feeling cramped by my injured ankle, which is still in a cast with a slight (but healing) fracture. (And yes, I know so many have it so much worse than I do. That of course, doesn’t ease my annoyance.)
Anyway, this video made me smile. (Song originally by the Kinks, but performed here by the Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Clint Maedgen singing.) Shot in New Orleans before the hurricane and edited and released after, it’s a quick reminder of the lazy, relaxed atmosphere down there. The Cajun Boy has more detail on his blog, where I happened to see it in a particularly moody moment the other day.
Mardi Gras is in full swing and soon it’ll be Lent. I’m not the most religious person, but I have to say that I might adopt this song as my mantra for those 40 days – “You gotta slow down your life or you’re gonna be dead.”
Maybe, just maybe, I can alleviate this complicated life.
Even if you can’t alleviate this complicated life it never hurts to try.
Thanks C, I needed that. And I was cranky long before my arm was blown up. I was going relatively slow at the time too. But a lovely video. Cheers & Good Luck! ‘VJ’
IIRC, he started on Decatur, just south of the flee market area, went past the split, then to a cross street….though I can’t tell because it doesn’t seem like he can go the way he went and still get to down by the water and up to Jackson Square. How far off am I?
It is said that the best way to slow down time, is to take in as much new information as possible everyday. Which I tend to agree with because when you think about a day where you just veg out your mind it tends to feel like a quick day, weekend, or even week, but when you take in life on its service and soak up information for that brief moment you can double the time of day!
Kind regards,
UnaDater
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Oh boy, I needed that. Merci.