Song du Jour: "Quiet Town"

Josh Rouse, "Quiet Town."

Jill Riley played this beauty on the Current the other day as I was cruising down Bryant Avenue in my car. It was one of those proverbial stop-in-your-tracks tracks, probably because things aren't so quiet around these parts these days.

But it is in the morning. I always wake up to the cockadoodle-doo of the 4 buses whirring by every ten minutes on Bryant. The sound of the MTC getting the day started always makes me glad I live in the city, but hearing this tune, especially the line about all the shows the singer is missing (but not really missing) by not living in a louder town, made me wonder how it would be to live in a place where there isn't something interesting going on every damn minute of the day and night.

Then I went to the dog park by Lake Of The Isles. I found myself alone in the heavy Indian Autumn mist, walking on a blanket of Midwestern leaves, seeing my breath under a Midwestern moon, and gazing out at the horizon of my hometown, skyscrapers reflecting off a still lake. For the moment I quit wondering how it would be to live somewhere else and remembered-decided that a town is as quiet as you make it.