[the subconscious machine] -

Oct. 1st, 2007

3:45 AM

This post is of a beautiful video from the New Orlean's Summer of 2005 featuring some of my favorite hometown musicians and characters. I don't know why I didn't post this before now, I've seen this video at BINGO! shows and posted en mass in various places online.

I guess I just hoped that posting it at a less popular time would help convey how much this song and video mean to me. This isn't a mass post. Listening to this is something personal that touches me at such a level that I find it difficult, if not impossible, to talk about.

Don't listen to me, listen to this:

Clint Maedgen
Preservation Hall Jazz Band
The New Orleans BINGO! Show
Fiorella's
Liquidrone

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cybraktif wrote:

Oct. 1st, 2007 01:29 pm (UTC)

Thanks melanie,
Hadn't seen that in awhile =) I am here and still feel torn when I see it. Ya know when you hear stories from old people talking about simpler time? That is what i wish for here. I mean yeah we had our troubles before the K, but life was simpler in the fact that we all had each other in good times and bad, and now the hard part is that everyone is scattered to the winds.
Miss ya
JM

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victorine wrote:

Oct. 1st, 2007 05:58 pm (UTC)

Missin' you girl.

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satanicmechanic wrote:

Oct. 2nd, 2007 01:29 am (UTC)

It just breaks my heart to see that video. (not to seem a wuss i got tears in my eyes now seeing it like that and thinking about what ive seen since) I know ive never lived in Nola and im not from there but i really really mean it when im there i feel at home. Maybe thats the way Nola is in general for everyone, i dont know i always wanted to go there and once i was there in 01 i wanted to live there. When i met my wife i was regularly checking the job listings the only thing that stopped from moving then was not knowing anyone in the city, had i met Jason or anyone else before then i might have just picked up and gone and couch surfed for a while. If i wasnt married i probably would be there even now but having two kids needing me im not quite ready to put my life on the line no matter how much i love a place. I wish more than anything i could erase Katrina.

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