Currently Listening Takk... By Sigur Rós Glosoli see related

so, mom and dad dropped in for a surprise visit last night - down here car shopping - and we had a good visit, sat outside in the crisp september air and ate thai noodles as the world browsed by in all its disinterested glory... i noticed things i'd never noticed before only a block from my house, like the decorative "1885" jutting up from the top of a nearby building commemorating the year of its construction, to the multivaried styles of the of the neighborhood hipsters... although that one's hard to miss. all in all, a very pleasant evening. they crashed at my place for the night, and with the weather turning the corner to fall it made for great sleep, with the breeze flowing easily in one side of the apartment out the other.

i've never really noticed any late night noise here. occasionally you get the fratters drunkenly wandering through a 3am on their way home from the bars, but nothing serious. figures on the night that my parents are here, we have a couple bum/gangbanger/drunk/druggies having it out just outside my bedroom window. I'm on the first floor, so there's a good 7-8 feet down to the alley, but not all that much. so anyway, they're down there, using language that would make the proverbial sailor blush, seemingly thinking that because everything else was quiet they had to make up for all the noise the 99% of the sleeping population wasn't making, all the while sounding really agitated, probably drunk, high, stoned, and anything else you can think of. down comes a nearby neighbor of mine (who I don't know) wearing boxers and a white t-shirt, accessorized with a handgun. one of them runs off, the other gets taken down, spreadeagled on the pavement (all this in full view of my awoken parents, mind you) and told in no uncertain terms not to show his face around here again, all the while holding a pistol to the guys head.

anyway, remember how when you were watching TV or a movie as a kid your folks had this sixth sense to show up EXACTLY ON CUE when the most profane/violent/sexual moment of the film came on the TV? yeah, see, it doesn't stop when you move away. dang you, irony of life!! dang you!!