Beck; ‘Elevator Music’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n—ooOoo—<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started writing this post on Thursday (04\/17\/2025) morning. It’s now Saturday (04\/19\/2025) morning, and I’m feeling quite marvelous today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meeting people, listening to music, fucking around, eating yummy foods; it just doesn’t get much better than this for me. Not much better indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jacques-Imo’s for dinner, an air boat ride on a bayou, brunch at the Court of Two Sisters… I even ended up at Tipitina’s for a record release party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\nScreenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<\/audio>Boyce Avenue; ‘Stand By Me’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nIt was good to revisit these places. Several reminded me of some of the best days of my life, and the amazing people that shared them with me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I gotta go back this year. I’m thinking another Halloween. It just feels like there’s a fuck-ton of unfinished business and things for me in NOLA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Weeping Angel for one. I just gotta remember: The Hyams family mausoleum in Metairie Cemetery. Not that cemetery; the other one – lol<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/audio>Corinne Bailey Rae; ‘Breathless’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nWe knew it could never be anything more than what it was at the time, given the age difference, but we were a wonderful, beautiful distraction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A musician with a melodic intensity like no other. A truly accomplished violinist, who had already performed internationally by the time we met.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Awarded a full-ride for vocals at a prestigious university, I particularly enjoyed the mornings, when she would sing while showering with me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/audio>Louis Armstrong; ‘What A Wonderful World’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\nAlthough there are things that shouldn’t be discussed, it wasn’t always depravity, frolicking, and shenanigans. I have many family memories too. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll never forget that trip with Nicole during the Construction Law Forum, or the trip with Nicolas and Steve, or even the trip with Janice and Neal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I can even add Carson to the list. Although we were doing our own thing this trip, we did connect for some fun times together. It made me smile. <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n<\/audio>The New Mastersounds; ‘Mrg’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n—ooOoo—<\/p>\n\n\n\n
William Allen White is known for saying: “My advice to the women of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias.” This makes me think. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quite honestly, why choose? What’s wrong with raising hell AND raising dahlias? Why does everything have to be so binary? We not have both?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/audio>The Doors; ‘Wild Child’<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I’m here. I made it. I write this one from the French Quarter. It feels un-fucking-believable to be back. I got in yesterday, and after checking in, I embarked upon a nice overview stroll of the Quarter, and I even enjoyed a carriage ride, which was nice, reminiscing and refreshing my memory. I do not … Continue reading Let’s Go Find Us Some Gators<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[135,18,1792,1754,1753,2768,2771,475,2773,2766,16,19,2769,2770,2088,58,2765,2767,2764],"class_list":["post-11778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-beck","tag-blues-for-cable","tag-boyce-avenue","tag-breathless","tag-corinne-bailey-rae","tag-elevator-music","tag-jd-mcpherson","tag-louis-armstrong","tag-lucky-penny","tag-mrg","tag-neuroticattorney","tag-neuroticattorney-com","tag-scoundrels","tag-sexy-weekend","tag-stand-by-me","tag-the-doors","tag-the-new-masterminds","tag-what-a-wonderful-world","tag-wild-child"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11778"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11883,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11778\/revisions\/11883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neuroticattorney.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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