In follow-up to my prior post, I lost my aunt just a week ago. A strange yet comforting thing took place today.
I had a busy day at work, including a day trip to Columbus and back. I left our downtown Cincinnati office with a coworker around lunchtime. There are two elevators standing opposite each other in my building. One had doors wide open and although we tried to go down a level, the doors wouldn't close...they were stuck open. We walked across to the other elevator as its doors opened. The next ten seconds were my 'Aunt P moment'...
Our office elevators never had music. This was the first time I'd ever heard anything in the elevators for our listening enjoyment. The song playing was an obscure favorite of mine from an old TV show, Twin Peaks. I'd just been talking to my family about that show in the past month or two (it was popular among weird high school kids with bad hair in '90-'91). I told my friend and co-worker, Jen, that I loved this song and hadn't heard it in a while...that's when it hit me that it might be my Aunt P pressing 'play' from above.
I looked up the song tonight and I couldn't believe the title - 'Love Theme Farewell', by Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch. It wasn't even the main theme, which is obscure enough on its own! I'm planning to check in with the building operations folks to see if there is a song list somewhere to verify that I'm not crazy.
So...I had to document these special ten seconds of my day, even if it was just a strange coincidence. And if the elevator people confirm that I'm not completely nuts, I expect some Everly Brothers soon, Aunt P.
I had a busy day at work, including a day trip to Columbus and back. I left our downtown Cincinnati office with a coworker around lunchtime. There are two elevators standing opposite each other in my building. One had doors wide open and although we tried to go down a level, the doors wouldn't close...they were stuck open. We walked across to the other elevator as its doors opened. The next ten seconds were my 'Aunt P moment'...
Our office elevators never had music. This was the first time I'd ever heard anything in the elevators for our listening enjoyment. The song playing was an obscure favorite of mine from an old TV show, Twin Peaks. I'd just been talking to my family about that show in the past month or two (it was popular among weird high school kids with bad hair in '90-'91). I told my friend and co-worker, Jen, that I loved this song and hadn't heard it in a while...that's when it hit me that it might be my Aunt P pressing 'play' from above.
I looked up the song tonight and I couldn't believe the title - 'Love Theme Farewell', by Angelo Badalamenti & David Lynch. It wasn't even the main theme, which is obscure enough on its own! I'm planning to check in with the building operations folks to see if there is a song list somewhere to verify that I'm not crazy.
So...I had to document these special ten seconds of my day, even if it was just a strange coincidence. And if the elevator people confirm that I'm not completely nuts, I expect some Everly Brothers soon, Aunt P.
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