RECORD STORE TALES #1064: Losing California (and Hair)
2023 has been a very hard year. It was a brutal winter, as I’ve said many times, like a broken record. It has been a year of loss, and it’s not even half over yet.
What have I lost so far?
In January, I said goodbye to one of my oldest friends. It was my choice to say goodbye, and I have no one else to lay responsibility on. The relationship had changed and suffered some serious fractures over the previous year. I felt that it was best to say goodbye before it got even worse for me. I still feel that was the right decision, though I regret how it ultimately went down. In May, I took a break from one of my newest friends, in the hope that time can heal deep wounds on both sides. I feel a huge loss. I will have to spend some time writing and reflecting on this loss down the road.
I’ve even lost my hair. Last year it didn’t look like this. That’s how hard 2023 has been. I have really aged in the last few months. I look 10 years older than I am.
I have a grandma who has lost her ability to live at home. She’s now lost her home of over 50 years, and is adjusting to a new life. Her first new home found her with a roommate that made her cry. Who makes a 98 year old woman cry? My heart was broken that day. She is in a better home now, though further away.
I have an uncle who is no longer taking care of himself and can’t remember yesterday thanks to Alzheimer’s. Talk about loss. Unfathomable loss.
But we keep on keeping on.
I’m drinking less soda.
I’m walking every day.
I’m losing weight, which is one loss that I don’t mind.
One thing I would like to lose in my life: lies – both to, and from me.
The summer will continue, and nothing will stand in my way. I will absorb these losses and move on. As I always have.
LOSING CALIFORNIA
But does anybody care how you got there?
Admit to yourself that everything’s a problem
But when it comes down what do you care?
Inch by inch, sit back and watch it go.
Coming in clearly
Dance, dance, dance to the radio.
Nobody knows what it stands for.
Get into yourself in dark sunglasses
And elevate it all ’til it means more.
Inch by inch is all you need to go.
Coming in clearly
Dance, dance dance to the radio.
You want to get right out of your mind.
Sometimes it’s too much
You’re gonna go right out of your mind.
But does anybody care how you got there?
Admit to yourself that everything’s a problem
But when it comes down what do you care?
You want to get right out of your mind.
Sometimes it’s too much
You’re gonna go right out of your mind.
Inch by inch, sit back and watch it go.
Coming in clearly
Dance, dance, dance to the radio.
California
Inch by inch, sit back and watch it go.
Coming in clearly
Dance, dance dance to the radio.
mikeladano.com 
Keep your chin up, Mike. It sounds like the light at the end of the tunnel is appearing for you.
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Slowly. Losing friends is hard.
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You don’t look 60. You are as sexy as ever to me.
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Dude I look 60.
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I do know a few guys that are a bit older than you without quite as many gray hairs, but they don’t have cocks that compare to your’s.
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I know you’re trying to cheer me up. It’s not working but I appreciate it.
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Just remember everything happens for a reason and with every down, there is an up (and vice versa). And I’ve been losing hair for years…it is your brain getting wiser, the hair can’t take it and falls out.
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I know you guys are trying to cheer me up and I appreciate it. I miss my friend. There’s a hole in my heart.
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Yes, but I won’t go as far as Holen will go to do it.
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Good. Nobody should. Lol
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I wouldn’t know about the huge LeSausage if you didn’t tell us all about it falling it on your way to the mailbox.
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Close, it popped out of my shorts a couple times
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It’s a small matter, relative to serious issues like friendships, but I’m happy to report that I found Geezer Butler’s autobiography for sale yesterday, at a Barnes & Noble here in the Denver area. The official US release date is June 6, I’m not sure about the Canuckian one. But it could be for sale near you, already. And the SDE of Live Evil was released on May 19 up there, while we have to wait until June 2. So in some small way, a new book and a fancy album re-release might cheer you up a bit. Finding the book certainly improved my mood! Hang in there, Mike.
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