if you watch the video over there on the right, the very first one called “singing” (couldn’t ANYBODY have thought of a more interesting title???), one of the songs i sing is called the “arthur and celeste song.” at least i assume that’s what the name of it is. here is how part of the song goes: “we have lost two little elephants, we are looking north and south and east and west…for two charming little elephants….named arthur and celeste.” it goes on and on but i can’t remember many of the lyrics.
so far i haven’t found one single person who also knows this song. i feel that when i meet this person, they will surely be my soul mate. or they could be my long-lost secret twin, which would really be exciting, and hopefully she lives somewhere really beautiful so i could go move there. would i get along with my twin, i wonder? we might not like each other at all. sometimes people who are very very alike don’t get along so well. too alike.
anyway, i played this little yellow 45 record over and over when i was a child. what happened to the record? gone, like the barbie dolls. when my parents moved from the house i grew up into a different house, there were boxes of barbie dolls complete with many very cool vintage barbie outfits. somehow, during the moving process THE BARBIES ALL DISAPPEARED.
did my parents have movers? because if they did, then the movers must have stolen the barbie boxes. WHY WOULD A MOVER WANT TO STEAL BARBIES?
perhaps a barbie fetish? hard to say.
perhaps the barbie boxes fell off the moving truck moving from place to place.
highly unlikely. it wasn’t a long drive.
so, “arthur and celeste.” i tried to find it online, but i had no luck. perhaps somebody out there with a lot of free time on his or her hands, who is really good at looking things up, will find the arthur and celeste song for me, and they could write and tell me where it is.
it’s been an afternoon of lots of reflection about weighty matters and so that’s why i decided it would be a very very good idea to just STOP THE REFLECTING ALREADY and instead search for arthur and celeste.
i wanted to accomplish many things this afternoon, but it didn’t all happen.
but that’s ok. the dogs are fine and the house is still standing, and that’s really all i really really had to accomplish.
the best part of my day (so far anyway and i feel it will be the best part of my day till i go to sleep) was sleeping really late. i mean, really really late. until almost ELEVEN.
unprecedented.
really FANTASTIC.
picture me saying that with a smashing british accent though. i get to say FANTASTIC a few times during the play, and it makes me want to laugh.
i feel that if anybody could find the arthur and celeste song, it would be craig. craig, if you’re still there in la, still reading this very website, i just want you to know that i’m theoretically going to be doing some dog/housesitting there in the not too distant future. and i’d really like to go to R23, if you’re interested. i recall reading on your site that you went there for the first time, and it made me really jealous because i always wanted to go there when in LA but somehow never made it.
here, a link for all of you who might want to try r23 if you go to LA: r23
it might not be your thing. i know a fellow, let’s just call him “Q” (for “quagmire) who pretty much lives on hamburgers. oh, and cheese fries. and doughnuts. mountain dew. he doesn’t seem very familiar with fruits and vegetables. so i have an inkling that he might not be so keen on sushi. just a hunch. luckily he’s firmly entrenched here in spfld illinois, so he doesn’t have to worry about somebody trying to sneak any Unagi onto his plate.
actually, he might like Unagi, because it’s actually grilled. i did witness him trying a “Primal Strip,” which is a “meatless jerky.” how is it possible to have meatless jerky? this was a thai primal strip, and i have to say that it looked a little weird to me. i seriously doubt i’d have tried one on my own.
not only did he try it, he actually ate the whole thing and said it was really good. I pointed out that the thai primal strip was actually good for him, it contained no lard, not questionable-origin beef parts, no vast quanties of sugar/salt/preservatives, no caffeine.
Thai Primal Strips. amy and jim are vegetarians, and they have lots of stuff in their refrigerator that’s some kind of fake meat. i bet i wrote about this before, because it fascinates me. soon all our food will merely be stuff that somebody concocts, it won’t be real anything.
the dogs are much too quiet now. i must go make sure all the furniture is still intact.
ok then,
sunday night grace.