Blog Ninja Challenge

Today I am joining on a writing challenge from the Blog Ninjas.  The topic was picked by the last challenges winner, who just so happens to be Jester.  The topic is: 

You know how you can be driving along, just minding your own business and suddenly a song will come on the radio that transports you through space and time so clearly and throughly that you miss your exit or rear end the car in front of you?

Here’s your topic: What song transports you through space and time, and where do you go?

Here is my official entry

Mushrooms and Chiclets

I don’t think the song that transported me away has a name.  I don’t even know if it is the song itself that transported me or if it is actually some sort of cosmic ripple in time, and it just happens to have a theme song. 

The song is difficult to describe.  It kind of sounds like a commercial jingle mixed with some soft elevator muzak.  There is not much percussions, but the melody is very pleasing.  Sometimes I find myself humming along to it, and yet other times the memory of it grates on my spine like nails on a chalk board.

The first time I heard the song it was simultaneous with a weird spiraling tunnel vision:  dark surroundings and twirling lights leading down to a small hole.  It lasted about thirty seconds, but that is how good that song was, it made a lasting impression. 

I woke up after the tunnel/song episode and was in a strange place.  It seemed to be a magical time in a far away land, complete with funny hairdos, strange clothes, and everyone was speaking in a odd new language.  It turned out to be Tijuana, Mexico, but in those first few moments, it was really surreal. 

I don’t know how exactly I got there.  One minute I was in Mississippi, the next in Mexico.  It was made more frustrating because I really could not get that song out of my head.  I hate having a song in my head and not being able to figure out what it is.  I tried humming a few bars to a kid selling Chiclets on the street corner, but I think he was mentally delayed, because he just kept saying, “No Hablo...buy Chiclets?” I have never liked kids.  I tried following a Mariachi band around for a few blocks to discover a different song to replace mine, but nothing could over power this tune.  I did discover however that Mariachi bands suck.

It took some time, but I managed to hitch rides all the way back to Mississippi.  My favorite ride was with a couple of hippies in an old VW bus, because they tried to help me figure out what song it was by playing along with bongos and a tambourine.  I kept telling them there were no drums in my song, but they didn’t have any other instruments.  I appreciated their efforts.  My least favorite ride was with a surly old woman driving an 18 wheeler.  She kept yelling at me to quit humming my song, but I couldn’t help myself, it was mesmerizing and stuck in my brain.  She finally put me out around El Paso, not because of the humming, but because I had gas.  Mexican food doesn’t agree with me.

Like I said, I made it back home.  I must have a pretty pathetic life because no one seemed to notice I had been gone for almost two weeks.  I only had one message on my voicemail and that was from my phone company telling me my bill was overdue and they were about to shut off my service.  I wish I could think of my song, because that would be a pretty awesome ring tone. 

I went to see my cousin who is a doctor.  I mostly wanted to hum some of my song and see if he recognized it.  He is really good at that stuff, but he was more concerned with my “blacking out”.  I tried to tell him it was not a black out, I was transported via a weird dark tunnel with swirling lights that seemed to play a really catchy muzak song.  He refused to listen to the song and therefore was of no help in the area for which it was sought . 

As I was making a annoyed exit from his office he yelled, “...and lay off the drugs, man.” But he ain’t the boss of me.  If I want to drop some shrooms and mellow out, that’s my business.  I just wish I could find out what song that was, because I would love to put it on and just get really high.

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