As heard on my back porch in Rochester, Minnesota one cold Sunday November evening at around 5 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock.<\/b><\/p>\n
I can hear the cars going by on Highway 52 to the West. But I can also hear cars to the South and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what road they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on. My kitten\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ID tags are jingling as she walks around. They make a different sound when they hit the tiles. At first I thought I was hearing the wind, but I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s just the cars and the fact that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so cold out here that makes me think part of the cars\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 sound is the wind. The phone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ringing but I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t answer it. Cat\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s tags jingling as she runs to the phone. I hear my voice (on the message on the answering machine). I hear my sister\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice (through the answering machine).<\/p>\n
[I jumped up and got it. I thought it might be an emergency or something, but it wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t. So, I talked to her for a while and now I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to start 4\u00e2\u20ac\u212233\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/i> again.]<\/p>\n
Anyway, like I was saying, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s weird how you can think something like the sound of cars is the sound of the wind until you listen closer. (I guess the wind doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t really have a sound of its own, now that I think about it.) I think Zappa just closed and opened the piano lid or something. My neighbor called his dog in. I can hear my tinnitus. It sounds like you can distinguish between cars and trucks and even which way they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going, but that might be an illusion because the highway is not that close. I hear my neighbor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s wind chimes. So now I am hearing the wind! No one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s honking. No, I take that back. Someone is uptight and just honked their horn\u00e2\u20ac\u201dmaybe they just want to get home, but still. I can hear a car right on my street now. I heard myself cough. Damn, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s cold out. I heard Zappa close the piano lid again. I hear a garage door opening or closing. The piece just ended and a John Cale recording came on. One thing you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t hear out here is the cold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As heard on my back porch in Rochester, Minnesota one cold Sunday November evening at around 5 o\u00e2\u20ac\u2122clock. I can hear the cars going by on Highway 52 to the West. But I can also hear cars to the South and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know what road they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re on. My kitten\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ID tags are jingling as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.leipzig48.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}