My Music Journal 2025: February 12, 2025

 

Wednesday, February 12, 2025

Time: 5:17 PM
Song: Milkshake 
Artist: Kelis
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s while driving home from work in a snow storm. 

Links to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/4LmzPJDil70LpiApWfOI6O?si=7ab77ca837a44d95

OK, a few things here. 

First, I mention a snow storm above. There was a time in my life I would have considered today’s snow storm just a little snow. Actually, I still do. Most winters twenty-to-forty years ago (at least in my memory) had snow events like this almost weekly between the end of November to the middle of March. This winter, this was the first snow of any consequence that we’ve had. The last few years we’ve generally had one maybe two marginally serious snow events a season. 

We’ve had three, maybe four inches today. It’s a light snow. It’s blown a bit, but the roads are mostly clear. There are no drifts even ankle deep much less the knee-to-hip depth that lead to homebound days for those of us who live beyond the city limits. 

It’s not dark. Just gray out like it has been all day. The snow is blowing sideways, but it’s not so heavy that it impairs vision. 

A real snow event has much more danger, more precipitation, and blinding winds. The grumpy old man at me wants to mock any school that called classes off. In my day, I wouldn’t even had bothered to turn on the radio to find out if school was canceled. There was no chance. This would have just been a Wednesday with some snow, soon forgotten, and likely buried under the snow that came with the big storm a day or two later. 

Second, those following along on this blog probably consider this song selection to be a departure from my usual fare. I agree, it strays from my listening tastes. I have it on my phone for a couple reasons. 

1. Jodi likes it. Simple as that. I add music she likes because she’ll be listening to these MP3s when we travel. 
2. There was an episode of “Raising Hope” – a show we probably only watched a handful of times in syndication – where the Cloris Leechman character enters a cooking contest and changes the words of this song to “My hot dish brings all the boys to the yard.” It’s a scene that we’ve mentioned dozens of times since even though – as I said – we barely saw any of the episodes for that sitcom. 

Third, it just hits me that this song, a type a song I usually wouldn’t be listening too, would be playing while I puttered along a snowy country road in a storm I once wouldn’t have considered a storm.