Edit: I just had a look at this post banged out in ten minutes last night. I really should try to proof read properly before i hit the 'publish' button. Plus, some things I want to write about, but didn't occur to me then. I don't have the time to do it though, so apologies for the jerky reading and I'll get to it when I have time.

A quick post before I run off to catch the last bus. Man, I should start staying over again. I am going to try out 143 tonight. Mr. D told me that it runs very late, so I'll be walking back with him later.

Over rum and coke with M just now, we discussed music and I told her that I really like Jack Johnson's Wrong Turn, taken off the soundtrack of the film Curious George.

Why do I like it? I think its a bittersweet sad song with a significance that applies to kids from age 4 to 99. Whether its a child mourning the loss of his playground mate or an adult going through the hurt of the demise of a what used to be beautiful relationship because someone, for some reason, has changed. And while (s)he's sad about it and wants very much for it go back to what it was, s(he) finally decides and realises that its no use waiting for his friend and moves on, albeit sadly.

How long has it been on your mind? Do you think about it when we laugh?

It's a song very much in the style of my favourite author, Shel Silverstein. Children's books with messages that teaches you how to live your life. We are missing pieces waiting for someone to come along that has a place to fit us in. But not too well lest we forget who we are and roll along too fast to take time to smell the flowers or talk to the earthworm. We are missing pieces waiting for the big O to roll along, so that we may roll alongside with the big O and transform from an awkward wedge to a tiny O with smooth edges, rolling along with the big O, but still complete within ourselves.

That's why I love uncle Shelly.

And I'll wait here a while
Just long enough to be sure
That you didn't make a wrong turn
And I'll wait long enough
Maybe an hour or two
Before I decide it wasn't me, it was you
It wasn't me it was you

Wrong Turn - Jack Johnson