you’ll find that it’s stranger than known

My headache has finally subsided, thank goodness. I stepped out onto the patio late last night to get some air and to shake the pseudoephedrine phantoms loose, and I saw a meteor streak past the lower part of Orion. It’s odd that even though Mt. Misery is a couple miles closer to Boston than North Woburn is, and suburban sprawl -- and the attendant light pollution -- has swept over the city in the past twenty-five years, the view of the stars up here is so much clearer than it was in my childhood stomping grounds. It must be because our neighborhood lies between Horn Pond and the Middlesex Fells Reservation, and the parks block out much of the light from Boston and Route 93.

I’m a materialist to a fault, and as such, didn’t read any more into the meteor than it being a randomly observed astronomical event. But, y’know, that’s more than enough. It was an excellent way to cap off a pretty painful day.

Portishead – Wandering Star (from Dummy, 1994)

Hüsker Dü – Eight Miles High (originally a bonus single included the 1984 Zen Arcade LP, collected on the the Eight Miles High/Makes No Sense at All EP, 1990)