Skulls n Moons n 99 Red Balloons
Been looking around lately?
Been paying attention to the latest rage? The newest fad?
I have. I see skulls on everything and on everyone. From ball caps to mannequins/womanquins on Lincoln Ave. in South Beach to the Jack Sparrows and and t-shirts and bandanas at Jax Beach. To silver rings and flying machines, from the old school to the hip hop, to the far reaches of there, to way over here. They’re everywhere.
I just laugh. Internally. Skeletally.
Didya happen to catch the celestial rage five years ago?
Oh yes. It was stars and moons and astronomy and astrology and Milky Ways and glow-in-the-dark atmospheres.
Stick-on glowers and grinning moons, pin-up silhouettes of waxers and waners. License plates and grow-a-dates, tattooed ankles and rear mirror bangles. They were everywhere.
I just smirked. Internally. Crescentic.
This all reminds me of a wise old adage: I was country before country was cool.
Or some shit like that.
How about 99 red balloons? Did you see them go by?
(Slow) Do do do do (Fast) doo-doo-doo-doo. Repeat. And…repeat.
Or if you prefer, 99 luftballoons, the German original version from like, 1983.
The point is this; that I kinda get nostalgic-ed off (I know, it ‘aint a word!) that no one thought we were cool when we WERE ACTUALLY cool.
I liked the skully-moony-starry-jingly-jangly-way-cooly and so untouchable thingies from my beginning. So get lost. Get lost in the stratosphere, beeotches.Yeah, that’d be about 8 miles from our fuckin’ surface, yo.
The fashionistas feel like THIS is the time to be into skulls. NOW is the sweet hour to lasso our moon and rope the stars. From HERE is our vantage point to spy some red balloons.
But geez. Can’t we get some props for being the originals? I feel like I’m havin’ to explain Woodstock to a bunch of parochial school students and I wasn’t even THERE!
I shrug off the moon, blow off the skulls and pop the red balloons.
Gotta find something new, something of my very own, to be cool at.
Gotta move on from there.
Just can’t stand those copy-cats.
Just can’t stand no more.
Blind THAT shit with science, yo.