Nashville Nightlife

In order to understand the story of the rest of my evening, you need to know that, for dinner, I made what I refer to as a "Mystical Pizza". This is not to be confused with a Mystic Pizza (the movie, by the way, was based on an actual pizza restaurant in Mystic, Ct. which does have, easily, the greatest pizza in history. If you get there, try their BBQ chicken pizza.)

A mystical pizza is, essentially, a pizza made with as high a quality...herbal content in the sauce and some very special mushrooms.

So, for dinner, I had one of these and washed it down with a few glasses of absinthe. This has, basically, put me in a very interesting state of mind (a state which can best be described as Las Vegas meets Disney World during the French Revolution), which I have been enjoying out on my front porch with a well packed bowl and listening to the various insects.

This, naturally, is where it all started to go strange.

As I sat there on the porch, the crickets, cicadas and..well, whatever the hell else hangs out in the incredible heat of night here in Nashville seemed not just to be having a discussion, but they were taking on a bit of a..rhythm. It was familiar...

Haunting...

Timeless..

New Wave...

Amazingly enough, the various insects and night creatures of Nashville had broken out into a cover version of Soft Cell's rendition of Tainted Love.