A few weeks ago, I heard a song on the PA system in a Denny's. Just some folk song with alot of whistling. Afterward, I started wondering who sings it, what the lyrics were, and if I'd ever hear it again. A few weeks later, I heard it again in a grocery store. This time I made it a point to remember some of the lyrics. Then when I got home, I did a Google search on the remembered lyrics and found that the song is called "Season Song" and is by a band named KaiserCartel. I then went to songmeanings.net to read the lyrics and see if anyone has commented on them. Not the kind of thing I'm likely to spend money on (e.g. CD or MP3 download), just curious what it was. I'm more into stuff like Talking Heads and Devo, but this one caught my attention for some reason. All the well, because the lyrics of this "Season Song" are all about appreciating seemingly mundane and minor stuff like trees and Jack-O-Lanterns, the kind of stuff you might not remember to stop and appreciate in the present (distracted by things like debt, job stress, etc.) but will probably wish you had more time to appreciate when you're on your deathbed.
For a greater challenge, I tried to track down a short film that I remembered seeing a long time ago when I was a kid and HBO still showed short films between movies. It's about a guy who goes into a room for an appointment. There's nobody there, but oddly there's an open-reel tape deck playing music. Suddenly, the tape jumps off the reels and forms a huge blob of tangled tape, when then chases the guy all over the house (whilst making the sound you hear when you're fast-forwarding a tape). The tape eventually devours him and then gets back onto the reels. I had always wanted to see that film again, and had even tried to track it down online before with no success. But the other day, I remembered it again and punched "short film attacked by tape" into Google. That lead me to some videophile forums, where I read and found out that the film is called "Recorded Live" and was a student film of one of the people who went on to make the Tremors movies. (It's a bonus feature on the Tremors 4 DVD. Don't have it yet but plan to buy it sometime, just to have "Recorded Live" in my video collection.)
