{"id":45,"date":"2005-10-31T03:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T03:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=45"},"modified":"2016-11-30T19:59:11","modified_gmt":"2016-12-01T03:59:11","slug":"little-blue-vacuum-cleaner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2005\/10\/31\/little-blue-vacuum-cleaner\/","title":{"rendered":"Little Blue Vacuum Cleaner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Little
\nT<\/span>his song from 1973 used to drive one of my frequent music playing buddies absolutely nuts. It was written while I was in the grips of a fascination with what we might call “cosmic whimsy.” The simplest objects and ideas had deep metaphysical resonance for me, imbued with a sublime and reassuring humor. (Well… you know, it seemed sublime at the time.) Maybe it was the grimness of the war or the absurdity of mainstream society… maybe it was that do-it-yourself primal scream therapy program I came up with for myself.<\/p>\n

Of course, one man’s whimsy is another’s terminal cuteness, and my pal Caz Camberline, who has over the years suffered through scores of my songs in various performance circumstances, could never swallow the cute formalism of the metaphysical central metaphor.And then there was the vacuum cleaner\/highway shoes jump… I really didn’t have an answer for that one. Still don’t.<\/p>\n

Now, that’s <\/span>what A Year of Songs is all about.<\/p>\n

\n

Got yer little blue vaccuum cleaner
\ngot his paregoric got his own Dust Preener
\ngot that San Antone
\nGot that Dorothy Malone<\/p>\n

Got the finity blues<\/span>
\nWalking round the city in his highway shoes<\/span><\/p>\n

Everything he see he suck it right up
\nnothing left to do he turn on himself
\neverything that’s outside must be in
\neverything is known, you just begin again<\/p>\n

Got that Einstein Circular Space
\ngot that black hole — he want a little taste
\nGot the world up inside his head
\nWhere will it go when he finds out he’s he’s<\/p>\n

Welcome to samsara now go home
\nwelcome to my universe–here, God is on the phone
\nYou’re welcome to wonder what it’s all about
\nBut please don’t try to tell me when you find out<\/p>\n

Got the finity blues<\/span>
\nWalking round the city in his highway shoes<\/span>
\n
\n(C) 1973,1996 TK Major
\n(Transcribed from memory with minor revisions Jan 2 1996)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This song from 1973 used to drive one of my frequent music playing buddies absolutely nuts. It was written while I was in the grips of a fascination with what we might call “cosmic whimsy.” The simplest objects and ideas had deep metaphysical resonance for me, imbued with a sublime and reassuring humor. (Well… you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[1015,661,481,663,659,662],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}