when it rains, it pours

holy fuck, with this rain thing! all the destruction and carnage all over the country. thoughts and prayers to those who've suffered through these past couple of days. with the flooding, the power outages, and the fallen trees, it's like monsoon season in the midwest! so my attention deficit disorder has gone nuts and i submit the following two random bits of observation...

rains
at lollapalooza, i noticed several women with similar style tattoos... 3 women, to be exact, none of which were friends. so three separate women all had tattooed the morton salt girl on their arms. one of the women had bombs (circa world war ii), instead of rain, but all of them had the same umbrella holding girl, spilling a fresh cylinder of morton salt on the sidewalk. i'm wondering what the significance is...

it's either depressing and pessimistic, "when it rains, it pours." or the girls just really enjoy salt.

pours
mates of state have been around for a long time, but i just recently got into them, after tim played a song for me... over a year ago. they have that at&t wireless commercial, where they're playing for a bunch of cellphone holding fanatics. anyways, the lyrics for that song are delicious, and i've been overplaying the song on my ipod lately.
"you put your life on hold as we interest one another,
two steps closer to the level i imagined.
i remember when it poured and you sang to me in summer,
it's a fantasy."

"for the actor" by mates of state

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