day 18: happy music

mission:

• give someone a happy music cd

couple days behind, i know, i know.  my bad.

friday was yet another jam packed day, so nothing i planned to do ended up manifesting.  i was left with about 2 seconds to decide my deed for the day as shakirah was already at the elbo room waiting for me.  we were meeting up to watch the kev choice ensemble and the bayonics perform.  i was also going to be shooting photos….which i still have to edit.  along with j*davey.  sigh.

:D anyway.  i’ve created this short list of act of kindness ideas in the notes section on my beat up little palm treo.  most of them are easier, less time consuming ones – “for the kind person on the go.”  hahahhaha.  i should make a commercial.  i’m sitting on my lappy in the bedroom finisihing up, ironically, a post for another day…thinking, thinking, what to do.  peep my little phone list, still thinkin…

look down and i see my good ole stack of blank cd’s.  the top cd was one that was already labeled but not burned (from the burn session i had for brianna’s b-day giftage).  it happened to be “bees & things & flowers” by incognito, with the first track being “everybody loves the sunshine.”  done and done.  even though i don’t love the whole album, it has a few solid enjoyable happy tracks – i thought it would suffice :)  ideally, i would have made a happy mix cd…but alas, kindness on the go.

i get out a thick-tipped black sharpie and scribble, “music to make you smile. *TAKE ME*” on the paper insert for the jewel case.  slip in a minicard on top of the cd, and i’m set.

once shak and i finally make it to the elbo room, we make our way alllll the way to the front so i can shoot.  i set my stuff down and pull out the cd.  cheesin super hard and holding up my gift, i say, “my act for the day!”  shak smiles.  i ask her that i want to just randomly set it somewhere but i don’t want anyone to see me.  she gives a quick glance around and says i should try doing it a bit later.

i think it was in between sets that i decided i was going to do my stealth action.  i grabbed the cd and beelined for the very back of the club.  the bar.  most everyone was turned around facing the bar, and there were so many people generally moshed up in the somewhat small space that i was pretty sure i could go by without a trace.  didn’t really know if there was a perfect moment to slide the cd onto the bar to minimize chances of detection.  allllsoooo, if seen, i was was wary of coming across like mixtape rapper solicitor dude, like, “yo, i got ceedeeeeez, son.”  i mean, although i don’t really look like a rapper.  i’m also not a dude.

yeah.  i saw a super slight opening next to this lady at the edge of the bar.  i was apprehensive that she’d turn around when she felt someone’s arm slide around her to put a cd right next to her on the bar.  but i went for it….aaaannnd………[wait for it, wait for it]….BOOKED IT!  stealth steez slid back through the maze of a crowd.  hahahhaa.  i was too focused on my escape to see if anyone caught my little display.  probably thinkin, ‘really lady, what’s that serious, though?’  ha.

hopefully someone picked it up and enjoyed it.