This diatribe is for anyone who has had their stuff in storage for an extended period. It has been two and a half years for me, and I had conjured up an overwhelming amount. I have been living with a minimum of “things” for the last couple of year. Not wanting for anything mind you, but a really spare and somewhat utilitarian existence. It has been freeing to know you can survive with so few material pleasures. It has been reassuring knowing where everything is. I am about to take delivery of my 8’X16’ POD. Virtually half of what is on it is music; CDs, vinyl, assorted boxes of tapes from reel to reel, to cassettes of my radio shows from different cities. I am excited. I reconnoitered today, and there was no boogie man to be found when I opened the door of the POD. It is good to be reuniting with the artifacts of the different eras, and I can’t wait to start digitizing the music.
Today I unearthed an old Philco table top radio from the 40s, a set of carved stone ‘see no evil,’ ‘hear no evil’ and ‘speak no evil’ monkeys, and some drum sticks from a Steely Dan concert in the mid-90s. So while I wax nostalgic about my immersion in the land of possessions, let’s do an animation today that revisits the Popeye era, well sort of, anyway. It is a new video from WILCO, and features the whole gang; WILCO as cartoon characters, and Wimpy, Bluto, Swee’ Pea, and Olive Oyl, who somehow winds up holding hands with Jeff Tweedy, much to Popeye’s chagrin. The song is one of the tracks from the album Whole Love, here is “Dawned On Me.” Oh yeah, check out the WILCO Spinach Can at the end. I want that!
- Jessie Scott