The drastic change in the weather has had a distinct effect on my cell phone.  My regular shots out the window in the evening are spinning red instead of blue. I’m using the same settings on the little phone camera…but the light is changing as we move into winter in Chicago.

Waiting at the station

“Glue stuck to my shoes
Does anyone know why you play with an orange rind
You say you packed my things
And you divided what was mine
You’re off to the mountain top
I say her skinny legs could use the sun
But now I’m wishing
For my best impression
of my best Angie Dickinson
But now I’ve got to worry
Cause boy you still look pretty
When you’re putting the damage on”

Lyrics From: Tori Amos, Putting the Damage On

Boys For Pele

I’m starring out the train window in the tunnel; next stop is my stop, so I’m right at the door. I’m looking out and against the soot soaked black wall of the subway I see… television? What is it? A movie being projected? No… a commercial for Aveeno moisturizer. I sorta blink my eyes to make sure I’m not having some sort of hallucination… you know… from my parched, impovershed skin… but I open my eyes and it’s still there.

Fast forward the next week… now there is a car, a slick, sleek, chrome skinned Adonis slithering through the train tunnel. It’s an Audi. I grab the hand rail in anticipation, but I can’t get a firm grip… my hands are too supple and moist, too well quenched from my Aveeno hand cream. Damn you hand cream, I’ve just missed a glimpse of the car that will make my life complete.

They’ve done it. They’ve found another place to advertise to us. We’re all fast forwarding through commercials now with Tivo and DVR, so they’ve decided to pummel us in the train tunnel. It’s quite a marvel. Stay asleep people, don’t look out the window. Be afraid. We should just cut to the chase, let’s stop fooling around… let’s start auctioning off to the highest bidder, the premo advertising spot.. think of it.. your brand tatooed on the inside of my eyelids. Yes! Everytime I close my eyes, there you’ll be, diet pill-sleep aid-viagra-you name it…..

Staying late at work sucks, especially when you pile on daylight savings time on top of that. It’s always depressing to leave work and have it be dark already. But tonight, as the train was short on sleepers, I was playing around with taking shots out the train window. Setting the phone on an inside light setting, the motion and the pitch dark, set off some very cool reflections and colors-