and came in with the morning tide

I'm feeling under the weather today (an awful sinus headache), so this is all I've got the energy to offer, presented completely free of any context or specific relevance:


Carter USM - Everytime A Churchbell Rings (from 101 Damnations, 1989) - Due to the writers' strike, NBC has been running repeats of the Tonight Show. Last night's episode was originally taped back in the last spring or early summer of 1992, the tail end of one of the most memorable patches of my personal history. As my brain tried to make sense of Jay Leno's oddly oversized suit jacket and the dated topical humor (Ross Perot jokes!), I felt a strange sensation wash over me. It wasn't nostalgia's bittersweet call, but rather like a lucid flashback, as if the fabric of time bent back on itself and let the geists of the zeit run wild just as I had begun to nod off to sleep.

As a consequence, I woke up this morning wishing for a slice of Cafe Aventura pizza and an buring desire to listen to 101 Damnations again. Cafe Aventura, like most of the Harvard Square I used to know and love, is long gone, but I do still have my copy of the album that (more than any of the other scores of records bought and listened to back then) I consider to be the official soundtrack of that chapter of my life.