Mom, we made it, or, a HEALTH live review
Mom,
Remember when I was 14 and you and Dad decided that it would be good for me to have a job? So you spoke to your friends at the Park and Rec Department and arranged to have me open the Danforth gym once a week for a golf class. I sat in an office furnished with a rotting chair, desk and television. My homework always joined me at work but I, without fail, ended up wasting the hour fiddling with the television’s rabbit ears in an attempt to get good reception. Inevitably, I would end up watching The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air with lots of distortion and feedback.
A couple years later you started earning some extra cash by turning off the lights at Bowditch Field. It was almost free money because you had to walk the dog anyway. Sometimes, when you were out of town I would shut off the lights for you. 1030pm sharp, but I always went around a little late just because.
Then senior year I was arrested and had to do 40 hours of community service. At this point you had been friendly with everyone at Park and Rec for years and within a week of being sentenced, or something, I was riding around in a mini garbage truck stopping at each park to stab at trash. It was early summer so the trash hadn’t become too purulent yet, but it was clammy. I finished each day covered in a mixture of my own moisture and other people’s trash-sweat. Also, I remember that the distribution and variety of trash depended on the park at which I was collecting garbage. There were always more condoms at Mary Dennison Park over on Beaver Street. I would lazily stab at the condoms and think, Come on- you all are better than this.
Remember all that? Well last night I went to see a band called HEALTH and a waifish kid with shoulder length hair, caterpillar eyebrows and fat “X”s on his hand was wearing a “Parks and Recreation Department” tee. The same one we had hanging in the hallway in case we needed a junk shirt to wear when bringing in wood, or doing yard work.
Congratulations Mom, we made it.
Love, Aaron
Health – Die Slow (Tobacco Remix)
Health played Harper’s Ferry Tuesday, September 22nd.
