I know I am late with my blog for the NaBloPoMo,however,yesterday was almost three days long.So I think it still counts.I am sitting in the business center at La Pavillion,which is to say that I am in a four diamond hotel that kinda blows my mind.Something about this place makes me feel like making outrageous demands.I know it's silly,but really.So Yeah.
It all started when Ramsay came over to get his hair cut the day before Pax and I were slated to come to NOLA.He was saying that e really wished that he could cme down and dig the city with us.On a whim he looked up House of Blues to see who was playing,and who is it???just my favorite DJ ever...DJ Shadow!!So I made him promise to meet us here for the show.When Pax got off work,we went to Red Bar to get dinner and visit B.He was looking a little down,so we told him that he needed to come to see DJ Shadow with us,since we all have a really personal connection with his music.It was the soundtrack for some of the most intense experiences that we have had.We figured that he could get back for work because he could go back to Memphis with Ramsay.So we tell him that we are coming for him in the morning and head home to pack.
Come morning I had a hell of a time getting Pax awake,a complete monster.Then we went to scoop up B.We had to bang on his door for ages and enlist the help of his cat to get him to answer.Apparently he had company,she was none too pleased with us.But we got him up and rolling.They snoozed on and off while I drove.I made incredible time,since we got such a late start.I got pulled over after Jackson for going 17 over,but at least he didn't catch me while I was ballin 110 while everyone was asleep.Pax's car just drives so smooth,I didn't notice that I was flying until I just happened to notice how easy it was to overtake everyone.I was happy to change drivers after that little experieince because I hadn't slept on saturday night (still haven't really)I got a halfway nap over the bridge.My mother used to put me in the car and drive me over that bridge when I was a baby to get me to go to sleep.I guess it still works.
We got into NOLA and tried to go for brunch,but apparetly there was a game going on (GEAUX SAINTS!!!)and there is some kind of Jewish conference going on and there were all the crazy protesters and cops out the wazoo everywhere,and we couldn't drive into the quarter,so we went in circles for a while.Eventually we checked into the hotel and made it out to the quarter for dinner,after which all involved felt increasingly more human.Then there was wandering and imbibing of open mind solvent up on the moonwalk.The river was amazing and so was the hot chocolate from Cafe Du Monde.Eventually we moseyed our way back to House of Blues and checked out the openeing band,Pidgeon John.I dug his sound and his lady DJ.
DJ Shadow was so fucking incredible.I don't even know how to explain.It was a very humbling experience.It seemed so intimate.There were maybe 300 people there,tops.It felt personal and I had this wonderful little perch to watch the visuals on the shadowsphere.At one point I felt so overwhelmed and grateful.I felt like things all were working exactly the way that they are supposed to,that I just have to trust the process and let things happen and do as I am moved to do and everything will be fine.The new material was part of that revelation.One of the new songs in particular made me feel so comforted and amazingly safe in the knowledge that things roll on the way that they must to keep life changing and keep us learning if we are open to it.It was just a bit overwhelming.
I started calling people because I needed them to know I was thinking of them,wishing that despite circumstances that they could be there with me.B and Ramsay ended up staying the night,and we ended up on the roof until the sun came up.I had some intense talks with B and sat with my feet in the heated pool,watching the stars wheel around until the bloody glow started over the river.It was very very special and I don't know that I can even begin to explain that. after that I gave B a reading and we sat up talking til it was light outside and then we all attempted sleep,some of us succeeded and some of us did not.I am getting delirious,and should probably stop here until later....get back out in the streets.Pax is sunning herself on the roof and the boys left about an hour ago,so I think I might wander alone for a while in my hometown.
One more thing.I know that I am exactly where I am supposed to be.
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