[Powderworks] In the Rain
Kate Parker Adams
kate@dnki.net
Thu, 19 Dec 2002 22:26:12 -0500
Ah, oily synchronicity. Don't we all love it! This sort of thing has
happened to me more than I would care to mention.
My favorite story of this sort comes from the time I was sitting at my
advisor's desk taking the two-day comprehensive exam inflicted on all
doctoral students. I was just back from the NYC show at the Bowery and I
packed a lot of Oil to listen to while I ground away at the test.
I had just popped in BSM to keep me awake and remind me of why I put up
with these indignities. Then I leaned back in the chair to stare off into
space for a minute or so and rest my mind while I listened to the opening
cut. After a minute or so of this I realized just what it was that I was
staring at on the book shelf beside me.
A copy of Blue Murder, the disastrous story of Wittenoom that inspired
BSM. I investigated it after I handed in that day's exam. It was
autographed (my advisor specializes in the study of dust-related lung
diseases).
Gave me a chill to find that book beside me while listening to the song.
At 08:40 AM 12/19/02 -0600, Heidi Shenk wrote:
>Kind of a cool thing happened two nights ago. I was up messing around as
>usual at 1:45am because I'm a complete night owl. I'm home for Christmas
>break and I found an old Oils mix tape in my room that I had made a couple
>years back and I decided to put it on. The last song on the tape was 'In
>the Rain.' Probably not much more than two seconds after the song and
>tape ended, it started pouring rain outside and suddenly it
>thundered. For one, it was kind of creepy because a thunderstorm in
>December in Indiana is one of the most ridiculous things I have ever heard
>of considering that usually it's lake effect snow that we're getting at
>this time of year. And then of course it was weird because of the Oils
>song that had just been playing, along with the timing of when the
>thunderstorm started. Anyways...thought it was kinda cool, told my
>parents and I got that usual silence while they looked at me like I was
>crazy, and rolled their eyes in that way that says, 'not another story
>that has to do with the Oils,' so I figured that it was something that the
>PW's might think was kinda cool....haha.
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