Put myself into a total panic for a few seconds tonight. (Caution..kind of long and windy) Was listening to a bunch of Youtube music as I went through my FB Newsfeed tonight. Ive been doing quite a bit of that divided attention stuff (also watching TV while Youtubeing and FBing) this week. I had been doing it with mostly a single earbud, sometimes two. Tonight I switched to studio-type muff earphones...very high fidelity and blanking nearly all external sounds. Id been tabbing back and forth between FB and Youtube and searching new stuff on Youtube sort of prompted by FB posts. Id been listening to everything from Gospel (His Eye Is On The Sparrow and How Great Thou Art) to Moody Blues (In Search Of The Lost Chord - Full Album) to Iron Butterfly (In A Gadda Da Vidda - long version)... Something sent me to the one below. I pulled it up and went back to concentrating on FB. Suddenly, totally muffling other sounds because of the studio-type phones, came the first few seconds of Long Black Train (link below). I went into a momentary total panic, wondering whether my refrigerator compressor was about to blow up, my ceiling fan was about to fall down around my ears or ??? I actually didnt realize what was going on until the music started...at which time I burst into laughter. It wasnt just laughter, it was actual cackling, complete with tears and it just wouldnt go away :) If I hadnt been so intent on FB, maybe it wouldnt have struck me just the way it did. If it had been just the earbuds... If Id had the volume turned down and the TV turned up... If it wasnt so late at night... If it had just started with actual music instead of that sound effect for the first 3 or 4 seconds... If I wasnt heading into senility... Try for yourself. Set the stage...4:30 in the morning and youre tired, youre trying to watch TV and read FB at the same time, plus adding Youtube, total concentration on two other things ... and those first few seconds of Long Black Train coming in and drowning out all other sounds that have been creeping through the muffs... I finally had to pull off the muffs, put my laptop down, blow my nose and wipe my eyes, let the dog out and eat something to stop cackling :) Rumble, rumble, rumble coming unexpectedly can set an old imagination aflutter :) https://youtube/watch?v=PyRZTAmcW7c
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 13:37:08 +0000
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