Atlas Battles

Sitting at the desk, 9:53 AM. Listening to Atlas by a band called Battles. The last time I heard it was in 2007 walking to work at Bio IB through Bryant Park and it seemed to drive me to a nervous breakdown. Perhaps I’ll cut it but it was disorienting at best.

So here it is 18 years later and I’m finally hearing it again and it is an odd song and it’s 7 minutes and 7 seconds long. The vocal is a bit sped up sort of like the Chipmunks by Alan Sherman.

Marcus is an odd duck. Sometimes he’s distant and irritating another time she’s somewhat humble. It’s hard to tell it changes like the weather every hour on the hour.

I had a lovely time talking to Mike on the phone last night. Bill was at rehearsal. Mike is genuinely worried when Bill and I are traveling between work or rehearsal to home. Mike considers us elderly and potential victims for bad deeds to happen.

It was touching and here’s Mike calling me right now. The ringtone had an arrow of desperation to it. He needs to “borrow money“.

Yes I know I’ve been down this road so often that I remember when it was all farmland before it was developments. If I can do it I will do it and I can do it but it’s not going to be too much…

It certainly stormed quite a bit last night so much so that the windows were closed and made everything stuffy for a few hours. Much of the storm relented and windows were opened.

It is Thursday and I am happy that there’s just one more day left. We’re in the middle of Thursday now but might as well write it off as being completed although anything could happen the next couple of hours to make me look like an idiot with egg on his face.

So I ordered the salad online this morning for 12:30 pickup and at 12:23 I got a message that the order was ready so I took my time going over there and took the long way to the salad joint only to find there was no salad. Somebody apparently stole it off the shelf.

This is what people do and they’re hungry so I stood around and waited for a new salad to be made which was okay I suppose but it wasn’t too overwhelming right despite the fact that it is an attempt at healthy eating. And that I had pizza yesterday and today a salad.

That was a topic that Mike brought up last night on the phone that I eat like a bird and I told him that I try not to lose actually try not to put on weight I try not to eat past 7:00 at night at the very latest 8:00 just the food just lies in your stomach and doesn’t burn away sigh…

I am old enough to remember that some guys mainly got tattoos because they were tough guys but now that tattoos are legal and anyone can get one so everyone is getting them and generally they’re not so tough. Even my nieces have tattoos! And they’re not tough! Or are they?

I just played the Zombies, Odyssey and Oracle. I heard so much about it for years and years and finally played it from start to finish. It’s a good record, not the landmark that I thought or was told it was. Still it was enjoyable, Time of the Season is still an amazing song.

Now I am listening to The Who, Tommy. It’s been decades since I’ve heard this one from start to finish and I’ve just started so who knows if I will finish. I finished and knew almost every word.

I have spoken to my men at lunch time, Bill and Mike. Bill was effusive. Mike was in the middle of the video thing for the job, so there was that.