Music Monday

Hello Mondains. Welcome to another addition of Music Monday!

Today I've been thinking yet again of days gone by which made me think of this little ditty to share. This song is one that I hold very dear. I immediately connected to it as soon as I heard it and have never looked back. I am lost in the rhythm and enveloped by the sound. It comes in like a flood tide.

It actually makes me think of a story of a big ship. In the summers, in Alaska, the company that I work for has two "floating processors." I had never seen one but when I first heard the term I thought of the usual floating type thing up there which is old rusty barges with train car apartments for people to work in. One year, during our six hour return journey to the boat storage, we decided to visit a floating processor because we would be arriving at midnight which is when they have a meal for the workers scheduled for night shifts. Being employees in a sense we decided to go for midnight lunch. I saw the lights to the processors while we were still four hours away and steered for them. The processors, it was pointed out to me, were actually ocean going vessels which were converted into mobile processing plants, not little rusty barges. We slowly crept up on the processors which went from specs to boats to ships. The moment this song reminds me of is when were approaching the vessels and a small fishing boat, like the one I was on, showed me the actual scale of the ships. It was tiny; they were huge. It is hard to gauge the size of something on the water due to the vastness of the ocean; everything looks tiny. My brain was tricked into thinking that these were not all that large and then reality struck me. It was like the moment when your brain finally recognizes how it has been tricked while looking at an optical illusion. These were big ships. Ten times the length of the boat that I was on and who knows how much more in volume. I actually gasped and went wide eyed. It was also funny to learn that the tiny boat that I had seen tied up to one of these larger ones was actually a hundred foot crab boat that makes our thirty two footer look small.

This is Brian Eno with "The Big Ship"



Until next time, keep your eyes wide and your gasps involuntary.

EDO