{"id":794,"date":"2009-02-09T21:27:42","date_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dmentd.com\/?p=794"},"modified":"2009-02-09T21:45:58","modified_gmt":"2009-02-10T03:45:58","slug":"carnival-starvation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dmentd.com\/blog\/carnival-starvation","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Starvation."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s starting. \u00a0 Can you feel it?<\/p>\n

That jittery flutter in my brain has been making my skull itch for about a week now.\u00a0 It’s carnival season, and I can feel the pull in my very bones.\u00a0 It’s something I’ve taken for granted my entire life — sometimes loving it for the joy of the sensation of community and being with my friends acting like a fool, sometimes loathing it for its intrusion into my life, sometimes avoiding it like the plague for fear of going homicidal on the the mass idiot crowds — but it has always been there.<\/p>\n

I miss it.\u00a0 And I never realized how much I would until it was no longer a part of the background noise of my life.\u00a0 I’ve been away from NOLA long enough now for that sensation of something… missing<\/em>, right around the beginning of the year, to become prominent.\u00a0 The colors are duller around Austin, the air is missing the tinkle of the familiar old carnival classics — the ones we’ve been playing for well over 40 years now, and nobody ever questions why that tired old music from 50’s, 60’s and 70’s is still<\/em> the signature music of the season… it just is.\u00a0 It’s part of the DNA of the city.<\/p>\n

Rifling through my music collection, I was heartbroken to find that none of my Mardi Gras music survived the flood, and I had never converted any to digital.\u00a0 I have been asked no less than four times in the last few weeks if I had any to play… and I’m ashamed to say that I didn’t.\u00a0 I just<\/em> got the faithful old classic, Mardi Gras In New Orleans<\/strong><\/a>, and have been listening to it and smiling so broadly, I swear my grin is going to meet in the back, and pop the top of my head clean off.\u00a0 I’m putting out a call for anyone with more of the same to help me bulk up my collection, pleaseandthankyou.<\/p>\n

The itch is scratched, but it’s not gone.\u00a0 It’s gonna take being shoulder to shoulder with a rowdy rabble of the unwashed masses, watching the lights, smelling the diesel, screaming my throat raw, and reaching higher to grab the useless — and ultimately worthless except to my starving soul — trinkets that symbolize not just a season, but a part of my life that won’t ever fade.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEvery year, at carnival time, we get a new zoot<\/em>!<\/em>\u201d
\n – The Wild Magnolias<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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