My Great Breast Cancer Adventure

Hodge Podge

Here's what I ordered from Three Stone Hearth this
week:

Chicken in rose petal sauce
Blushing carrot soup
Coconut rice with fresh coconut shavings
Creamed greens
Braveheart beef patties
Chocolate smooches
Chicken broth
Cultured- beet kvass tonic
Coconut oil

Yum. So tasty and fun and EASY.

What else? The night before last I caught part of a
KQED television show that I'd never seen
before called "Spark," which also has a website. I
liked it! The episode I saw featured the
photography of an Oakland artist named Todd
Hido (I especially liked his "Homes at Night"
and "Landscapes" series, and the equally
intriguing "Mundane Journey" conceptual bus
tours created by San Francisco artist Kate
Pocrass. I sent her an email saying I want to be
notified of the next tour. This is my idea of a truly
fun, quirky thing to do. I might try to round up a few
friends ro go with me and Jack (hint hint).

You can watch Spark on Comcast Cable Channel
191. The Hido/Pocrass episode I stumbled upon
is going to be shown again today, Sunday, at 7 p.m.

What else? Um, well, I discovered another song I
like; it's in the soundtrack to a movie, Unhook the
Stars, that starred Gena Rowland, whom I love,
and Marisa Tomei. The song
(same name as the movie) can be found on a 1996
Cyndi Lauper album called Sisters of Avalon (and
was written by Lauper). I paid the 99 cents to
download it from iTunes. Here are the lyrics, but
you really need the music too. (I don't know much
about Cyndi Lauper, truth be told, but I'm wondering
now if I should further investigate her talents.)

"Unhook The Stars"


Just when everything's in order and good, things
fall apart

Just when life should be resolving I'm back at the
beginning,

And it comes back to the heart ...

I'm not really sad ... I'm not running, I'm looking ...

Did I tell you I've saved all your letters and cards ...

There's just nothing left for me to do here but unhook
the stars ...



Do you remember when I told you all that I could and
it seemed like too much ...

Well I was living your life hoping you'd never fall ...

If I held on tight enough ...

And letting go now is like a passport to anywhere ...

With time on my hands I can make a new start ...

I just didn't want to stay here and unhook the stars

I just didn't want to stay here and unhook the stars



Don't worry for me it's just I'm inspired

Waiting in the wings made me drunk with possibility

It rivals my memories ...

Lyrics I Like

I should make it clear that lyrics I like have to be set to music that I also like. I wish I knew how to put the actual audio of each song into my blog posts. I'm sure there must be a way. But for now, here are the lyrics to but one of the many songs that I just discovered on Fiona Apple's 1999 album, When the Pawn. You can click on the song title to hear a snippet.

Yes, I know, I'm a little behind the times. I "discovered" Fiona only just the other day when I watched an episode of The Iconoclasts that profiled Fiona and Quentin Tarantino. Interesting pair. I like that show. The last one I saw was Isabella Rosellini paired with some environmentally conscious inventor guy whose name I've now forgotten (Norman Somebody, I think...). Did you know that Isabella, in addition to being Ingrid's daughter, an actress and philanthropist, is also a trainer of dogs for the blind? Yup.

I put the Amazon link to this album in my new "Music!" category, if you want to listen to snippets from various songs on the album.

I've always dreamed of being a song lyric writer. Maybe someday I'll be able to talk my songwriter friend Harlan into collaborating with me again, since he knows how to write music as well as lyrics. (We co-wrote the smash country hit, "One More Truckstop Christmas," back in, heck, I can't even remember how many years ago that was...quite a few. I'm still getting royalty checks, though. I think the last one was for 76 cents.)


"A Mistake"

I'm gonna make a mistake
I'm gonna do it on purpose
I'm gonna waste my time
'Cause I'm full as a tick
And I'm scratching at the surface
And what I find is mine
And when the day is done, and I look back
And the fact is I had fun, fumbling around
All the advice I shunned, and I ran
Where they told me not to run, but I sure
Had fun, so
I'm gonna fuck it up again
I'm gonna do another detour
Unpave my path
And if you wanna make sense
Whatcha looking at me for
I'm no good at math
And when I find my way back,
The fact is I just may stay, or I may not
I've acquired quite a taste
For a wellmade mistake
I wanna mistake why can't I make a mistake?
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why
Do I wanna do right, of course but
Do I really wanna feel I'm forced to
Answer you, hell no
I've acquired quite a taste
For a wellmade mistake, I wanna
Make a mistake, why can't I make a mistake
I'm always doing what I think I should
Almost always doing everybody good
Why