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once again, with feeling
As nobody seems to have taken much note, I'm going to post this again. Because I like it.
Thus: this anonymous post-it note found on the floor of the deVille Bookstore in New Orleans. This time I have made it look like a post-it note, so maybe you'll get the impact. I'm still thinking about the person who wrote this, the circumstance, and the story.
February 28, 2005 08:56 AM
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Don't know the plot, but this post-it note has a definite John Hiatt soundtrack... these are all his places and his themes.
For the getaway scenes, listen to "Tennessee Plates" or "Drive South" on:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000009D10/ref=m_art_li_1/002-7059451-8573623?v=glance&s;=music
for "What Do We Do Now," "Crossing Muddy Water," God's Golden Eyes," "Lift Up Every Stone," "Gone," and "Before I Go" (Which may not ALL go with the post-it note, but, they are on my shortlist of Obligatory Road Music and this is a road story, for sure [g])
And, of course, in the immortal words of Ben Browder and/or David Kemper, "It's always about a girl."
Posted by: robyn at February 28, 2005 02:05 PM
oops, you may have to get in there and work your linky administrator magic for those url's to do right. Sorry.
Posted by: robyn at February 28, 2005 02:07 PM
The handwriting gives it more impact I think.
Quite an old-fashioned style of script on a thoroughly modern piece of stationery.
Was this someone's personal private detective work?
That's the way my mind is working.
Posted by: Alison at February 28, 2005 04:15 PM
I'm thinking, but the writing is so beautiful (from your new bag of fonts?). It looks like it was written by a woman.... and if it was written by a man, then what does it say about him? It wasn't written in a hurry, its considered. A road trip maybe but there is a wedding in there somewhere as well. Calling in favours, a bringing together of a whole lot of diverse parts of a person's life. Or maybe its a quest.
Posted by: Jacqui at February 28, 2005 06:33 PM
Here was my scary moment: The first time I read The List, when it wasn't in a special font, I saw "license in MS" and thought, Missouri, (although I don't know if that's actually the abbreviation for Missouri). The second time I read The List, "en font," the first thing that popped into my mind was "Micro Soft" for the "MS." But that's an aside.
So are they forging licenses in MicroSoft Word or Publisher maybe, these days? It strikes me as a To Do list, definitely. A sad To Do list. A family tragedy in there. Addiction, desperation, don't we all love a story though. Hmm.
Posted by: Pam at March 1, 2005 01:44 AM
Robyn, I love the way your mind works. The perfect sound track, really, for a quirkily dark story (tragic, even, I think you're right about that, Pam).
Alison, that occured to me too, it might be somebody trying to track down a deadbeat -- and about the font, I didn't have exactly the right handwriting font so I made do with this one, which is Monet. Gaugin would have been better, as he was definitely ethically suspect, but I don't have that one... maybe I need to go FONT SHOPPING. Jacqui will understand.
Posted by: sara at March 1, 2005 09:29 PM