Day 4 of the 30 Day Music Meme - "A song that reminds you of someone you'd rather forget"

Hard one. I'd say it's more a song and for a long time, a song-writer, that was ruined by someone I wanted to forget. That someone sang this song to me after he dumped me. I couldn't listen to the song or anything by this particular song-writer for years after that. (That and anything by the Grateful Dead, still struggle with the Grateful Dead.) Which was a tad problematic, because for one thing - the song-writer is somewhat prolific. And for another, everyone loves this particular song-writer. I was, however, able to listen to other people sing songs by this guy during that time period. And I did eventually get over it. But this song, to this day, makes me cringe, and there's only one person's cover of the song that makes it at all palatable.

So, this is the song, I hate - due to the fact that I first heard it in a negative context and somewhat humiliating one. Note - if you play this song to someone you've just dumped? You deserve to be punched repeatedly in the nose and have your guitar broken over your noggin. Just saying. It is NOT a good dumping song. Oh, I forgot to add - he played it publicly in front of a lot of people.

All of that said? I did forgive him. He was 21. And about thirteen years ago, we met again in NYC, and went contra-dancing. He's married. Has a kid. Lives in Livingston, NY. And is a mindfulness psychologist. And still plays the guitar, has released a couple of albums online, and has a band.
I'll provide a link to his music at the end of this post, if you are at all curious.

So, rather forget? Eh? I'd rather forget the song and the person he was at the time he sung it to me - at that time, he sounded just like the original song-writer. I think at the time, he may have..what's the word? Channeled that song-writer - who is still living by the way. Why? Because assholes live a long-ass time. Great songwriter and musician, but still an asshole.

Don't Think Twice, It's Alright by Bob Dylan

And here's the version by Joan Baez, who by the way - Dylan wrote the song about. He'd just broken up with Joan and wrote the song. Then later, Joan did a better cover of it than he did.

Watch on YouTube

That's young Joanie, here's old Joanie singing it Joan Baez singing the song twenty years later.

I love Joan. Dylan, I want to smack. (Love his music though, saw a few years ago a retrospective of his work at JP Morgan Museum in NYC - I miss museums.)

Oh, I did promise to provide a link to the music by the college boyfriend who broke my heart with this song in the 1980s...who I went contra-dancing with sometime in 2007.

Song tracks by boyfriend I was talking about (Oh he looks like Keanu Reeves kid brother and has the same mannerisms, and vocal intonations as Reeves - I had troubled watching Keanu Reeves movies for the longest time.)

( The questions for the meme are below the cut )

Day #144 - Sigh

At least it is Friday. A rainy, occasionally stormy, Friday.

Internet went out this morning for no apparent reason. I had power. I just didn't have my network. And Optimum was not responding, outside of saying there was an outage in my area and they'd call me back in over 45 minutes. I called them at 8:06 AM, they called me back five times at 7:30PM. By that time it was restored.

I did figure it out - eventually, it was the power to my network server that went out. There's been random power outages across the city since the Tropical Storm, which apparently was worse than Hurricane Sandy in respect to trees being torn down, and various power lines. Half of Long Island still doesn't have power - and PSEG (the electric company on the island) is informing residents they'll get it back by late Saturday. They've been out since Tuesday. Con Ed services the rest of NY. And no one is happy with them either. Yet, Crazy Workplace apparently stepped up to the challenge and ensured service was up and running again within a 24 hour period, after taking it down during the storm. Considering the damage was worse than Sandy, and it took Crazy Workplace a week to do it post Sandy, that's definitely progress.

Anyhow, picture of ( home office )

In other news, the NY Governor has given the go-ahead to open schools under the following caveats...
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On FB, old college bud posted something that said - "if you are feeling tired a lot of the time, have difficulty focusing, or remembering shit, and often find it hard to care about future plans - give yourself a break, it's normal. This is your brain coping with the stress of having no clue what horrible thing is going to happen next, and attempting to prepare for it."

I found that reassuring. I'm dreading the fall like everyone else. Also trying to understand these people who are traveling about. I can't get up the guts to visit my brother's barn and I know people who are traveling to Orleans, MA. Perhaps I'm being silly? My brother doesn't think I'm being silly - he chickened out of traveling to Maine.
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New York vs. The Coronavirus

From the Governor's email...
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I don't know about you? But I need a flower. My walk today around the Cemetery - which was relatively brief on account of the fact that a) I wanted to hit the grocery store, b) it was humid and I was dripping wet, and c) I had to pee and wasn't sure I'd make it.
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The upstairs neighbors have acquired what sound like an odd tumbling habit, either that or they have decided to run up and down the steps fifty times.

Oh well, another week down. It's been five months now. I think. This is the sixth month. The world has changed. I looked back over old posts and found myself flinching, much as I did at old 9/11 photos.

It's as if there's always something lurking over the horizon poised jump at me like some fangy spider. Without warning. And I'm forever on the look out for it.

On the doors to the lobby of the building, there was a notice that various apartments would have their power shut off for about three hours on Monday and Tuesday to hook them up to their new electrical meters next week. Great another power and internet outage to look forward to - and in the middle of my work day, no less. They said I don't have to be home during it. Yippee. Except I most likely will be. OTOH, I'm glad they are getting it done now. I don't like having it sitting over my head, like everything else.

Here's a few flowers to brighten your evening...all I can offer right now in regards to hope appears to be flowers.