Very Loud, All These Years
I just took a walk to the little bodega up the street.
I know, I live in the San Fernando Valley, and it’s rather pompous of me to be talking about bodegas, but there it is, bigger than a liquor store, smaller than a grocery store, situated near a bazillion apartments, and I can’t really think of a better term for it.
Anyway, I went. And walked back. And outside my building were a couple in a car. They could not have been younger than seventy. Listening to music. Sitting in a parked car, with enormous grins from ear to ear, listening to Tori Amos. For real. I’m not this creative.
I walked by the front seats and stopped beyond peripheral vision so I could crane my neck into the backseat — maybe see if there was a twelve-year-old protogoth granddaughter hunched in the back, being humored. But no. A seventy-year-old couple, alone, who are either very big fans or very hard of hearing, because they were positively blasting Silent All These Years.
I thought through if there was any way I could engage them about this. The windows and doors were closed, and I’m huge, and hairy, and strong, and fully capable of scaring elderly people into untimely deaths, especially if they don’t hear or see me coming, and I do something like knock on their car.
So I smiled and walked on. A huge smile. They were born in the (First) Great Depression, and were having a driveway moment with Tori Amos. This is unbelievably awesome.
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October 18th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
OK. All I have to say about this is: Awww!
Personally, I was never a big fan of that album (don’t hang me), I would have gone with anything from Under The Pink or Scarlet’s Walk. But hey, to each their own.
October 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
I think Precious Things is amazing. And the title track itself is pretty rad, too. I’ve specially tagged Me and a Gun in my music server so that it never, ever, ever plays when I’m doing a fully randomized playlist.
My favorite album of hers is Boys for Pele.