“Boogie” is one of my favorite words ever, at least right now. I mean, this always changes because words are so subjective and get frozen into one thing that will all of a sudden blow open into something else but then that will get frozen. And it’s not like I have a running list of my 500 favorite words that I’ve been compiling, updating obsessively, thinking about, changing and rearranging, a constant work in progress since 7th grade. Back then, it’s not like I did it on spiral notebooks meant for math problems that I filled the lines with lists that would change every week; and when I had a stack of the lists, I’d weight the rankings to create a cumulative overall list, that would in turn be redone every month. It’s not like I did this through high school, on wide margin loose leaf paper, and that’s where I developed my rhyme writing style of squeezing two lines of lyrics between two gridded lines on the paper, to keep it organized musically in my mind as I read it. It’s not like I have floppy disks that ideally would work on my busted up Brother word processor somewhere in the camper trailer with files called “500wordsA” and “500wordsB” and “500words-real” and so on in about 300 different variations. It’s not like I’ve brought that to the computer age, even in the past year starting a photo blog that is just a countdown of my 500 favorite words ever, at least from a cumulative list made from random 500 lists from the past ten years added together, starting by typing word #500 into google image search, to throw up 3 pictures per word, and I’m barely just begun, not even to 400 yet. It’s not like I’ve done all that throughout my life, about words, and “boogie” has been a pretty constant presence, even being a cumulative top 100 word all the way back to 7th grade. And it’s not like sometimes I get excited about the day when I get to type the word “boogie” into the google image search box and see what it spits out, safesearch settings be damned.
STEAL “Old Folks Boogie”
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