Tip O' The HAT

Terrible Live
Originally uploaded by Helmer, J.

The year was 1997, your friend and humble narrator was sitting in the Apocalypse lounge on the campus of SCSU; smoking and listening to the table full of physical plat/custodial staff talk about work stuff. If you ever want to know what really goes on someplace like a State university--seek out these folks--I was getting a whole other education I wasn't even paying for. When I wasn't evesdropping, I was reading Robert Anton Wilson's "Shrodinger's Cat Trilogy--and I suddenly ran across the phrase "Trick Top Hat." Something clicked. I pulled out what was ostensibly my History folder and began to write; Wilson book still open in front of me just pulling random phrases and Images from the book and fitting them together as best I could. I eventually came up with what I thought was a cool song lyric to take to my bandmates--Eddy Burke wrote music to it and it went into our set list. Always a fun song to play cause the lyrics confused the hell out of the audience; plus Eddy had written in that loud/soft/loud Pixies--Nirvana style which made it a cool switch-up style wise.

Years pass. The band dissolves in a very garage-band "It used to be about the music, man!" kinda way. I put a copy of some of Terrible's lyrics up as a section of my webpage and forget all about it for the most part.

Eight years later I'm up in the middle of the night (one of my periodic insomia adventures) and I punch my name into Google's search bar. Yes, I'm man enough to admit I've 'Google-d" myself...and I run into this. It is odd enough to find yourself quoted--and credited for something years and years after you created it. Still, stranger to me, was the fact that I hadn't the slightest idea what this guy was talking about--you'll notice that it's prefaced as 'a message from Chris_Titan. I don't know who or what he is, and looking arround the rest of the blog--I can't make much sense outta anything that's there. Does anybody out there reading this speak paranoid-delusional? Maybe it's some sorta weird meta-joke or a art project?

An odd little message from myself at 19 shows up years later being quoted--and now I suddenly have a connection to this author. It is a strange feeling to write something, forget about it, and have it pop up years later. Makes me wonder what othe sorts of web-detrius I've got floatin about.