Apparently I hum to myself when I’m totally immersed in my writing. AJM had to keep kicking me under the desk because I was derailing his train of thought. So we both put on our headphones and pressed on. Usually when I’m writing I can’t listen to music with words in it as they distract me. But I decided I could try “Diamonds and Rust” because that was the song I was humming so it was playing in my head anyway.<\/p>\n
Well I’ll be damned
\nHere comes your ghost again
\nBut that’s not unusual
\nIt’s just that the moon is full
\nAnd you happened to call.
\n
\nAnd here I sit
\nHand on the telephone
\nHearing a voice I’d known
\nA couple of light years ago
\nHeading straight for a fall.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nDespite my high tolerance for listening to the same piece of music over and over (or even just the same few phrases of a piece of music), eventually I decided to try something else. I settled on “Der Himmel Uber Berlin”, the main theme from “Wings of Desire<\/a>“. Then I was called away to dinner.<\/p>\n
\nWhen I finally got back to work, I realized that I’d left iTunes running. The song was still playing.<\/p>\n
“It’s played 64 times!” I mentioned to AJM and then was silent.<\/p>\n
He could not see my face behind my monitor. He peeked around to look at me. “I don’t think there’s a way you can reset it.”<\/p>\n
I looked up startled. “How did you know I was thinking that?”<\/p>\n
AJM laughed. “You just can’t stand for the stats to be wrong. It blows your whole system. ‘Panic! iTunes will think I like this song more than I do’!”<\/p>\n
Well! It’s nice to be so understood.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Distinguishing between accuracy and truth. <\/p>\n