Home, sweet home

[redbird]

The road goes ever on and on, but I'm glad to be home. I had planned to be home yesterday, but my flight was cancelled: this led to a bit of scrambling and telephoning, and to my confusing someone else from that flight who, after one unsuccessful attempt to call rysmiel, who was online at that point, asked me what I was doing. I reflexively said "I'm going home", and she said "Manhattan??!" No, I don't sound like a Montrealer, and I'm not one: but in that context, returning to rysmiel and papersky's home to spend another evening with Rysmiel and adrian_turtle came out that way. However, this means I've effectively had two travel days in a row. Tomorrow morning, I go back to McGraw-Hill.

One amusing bit of all this was being asked by a Canadian immigration officer whether I'd bought anything at the duty-free: they have a special form for people who return to Canada because of cancelled flights after clearing US customs in Canada, and sent all of us from that flight to the same two customs agents, to simplify things all around. Other than that, I did get a backrub last night that Rysmiel had meant to give me the day before, and we'd both forgotten about, and Adrian got to finish playing us the Richard Thompson recording she'd started the night before (between Rysmiel playing Masters of Chant and VNV Nation albums, and me playing the best of Warren Zevon). The Thompson is an outgrowth of someone surveying assorted musicians at the turn of the millennium and asking each to name their favorite song of the past thousand years. Adrian informed us that just about everyone named a song from the 20th century, mostly 1950-2000. Thompson recorded an album's worth, probably the only extant album that includes "Sumer Is Icumen In," "Shenandoah," and Gilbert and Sullivan.

The travel delay means I don't start physical therapy until next Monday, that being the earliest rescheduling they could offer me.

Comments

RT's "1000 Years of Popular Music"

[calimac.livejournal.com]

I like that album. I would like to introduce people to Thompson by blowing their minds by playing the following two songs in order: first, a live recording of "1952 Vincent Black Lightning" (which I have on Rhino's Troudadours of British Folk) series), then the old music-hall standard "Waiting at the Church" from 1000 Years of Popular Music.

[kightp.livejournal.com]

If the breadth of tunes weren't sufficient to make me adore "1000 Years of Popular Song," RT's sardonic rendition of "Oops, I Did It Again" would be. (-:

Welcome home.