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Mickey Z
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Tuesday, November 15, 2005
A very peculiar item...
Rumblefish is one of my favorite movies. In it, Tom Waits has a small role as Benny, a counterman in the diner where many of the street punks hang out.
(Time Waits for no one...)
In a film that features many timepieces and a lead character who is nothing less than a time bomb, Waits/Benny offers this little soliloquy:
“Time is a funny thing. Time is a very peculiar item. See, when you’re young, you’re a kid, you got time. You got nothing but time. Throw away a couple of years here, couple of years there, doesn’t matter. You know, the older you get, you say: ‘Jesus, how much I got? I got thirty five summers left.’ Think about it. Thirty-five summers.”
Joe from Oregon sez: As I get older, ‘here and now’ is becoming ever more important, somehow…
David Bowie sings: Time may change me/But I can’t trace time.
Boy George sings: Time is like a clock in my heart.
Then there’s Pink Floyd:
And you run and you run to catch up with the sun, but it’s sinking
Racing around to come up behind you again
The sun is the same in the relative way, but you’re older
Shorter of breath and one day closer to death
Yes, Time is a very peculiar item. Then again...so is Newsweek.
Insert rimshot here:
(Thanks to Old Glen for this Edward Abbey quote: “Whenever I read Time or Newsweek or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind?")
Anyone else have a favorite quote, book, movie, joke, poem, etc., re: time?
SNEAK PREVIEW
While you ponder the meaning of time, here’s a sneak preview of the soon-to-be-revealed party photos:
The Birthday Girl at the end of the night...40 years young
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