my baby sister.

[perth]

through a random series of events, i fould a cd i burned over 2 years ago and never bothered to listen to. i started listening to it and found that it was basically a cd starting with 1 van morrison song followed by a bunch of pogues songs. i was pleased that i found it and out it in my car to listen to. i put in the car saturday night and went merrily home.

the next morning, my mom and i decided to go to kohls department store to pick up some frames. my sister worked at kohls for a very long time and i found myself thinking a great deal about her and missing her very badly. we got back out to the car and as i started the car, track 12 of the cd i had found began. "beautiful girl" by poe. 1 song dramatically out of place amongst a bunch of irish drinking songs.

heres the thing. before that song took on special significance for me due to her loss, it wasnt a song i particularly cared for and i much preferred other songs by poe. even knowing that, i cannot imagine the thought process that would have brought me to burn a disc that looks a bit like this:

1. all over now baby blue - them featuring van morrison
2-11. pogues
12. beautiful girl - poe
13-18. pogues

and even if i could figure out what caused me to do that, the chain of events that ended with me putting that cd in the car is filled with me and other people doing very out-of-character things.

coincidence? probably. but it did wonders for me at that moment.

~james

~james