what are you listening to THIS VERY SECOND?

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How does it feel
To treat me like you do?
When you've laid your hands upon me
And told me who you are?
Thought I was mistaken
I thought I heard your words
Tell me, how do I feel?
Tell me now, how do I feel?

What I was seeing wasn't what was happening at all
Although for a while, our path did seem to climb
When you see through love's illusions, there lies the danger
And your perfect lover just looks like a perfect fool

#GetTheStrap

Al "Blind Owl" Wilson, a singer and guitarist of Canned Heat, obsessed with music and specifically blues was also considered to be obsessed with conservation, ecology and botany. He was so nearsighted that he couldn't see two feet in front of him without his glasses. He apparently enjoyed reading books on botany. He rarely bathed. He was very socially awkward and spent a lot of time alone. He liked to sleep out under the stars. When the band was busted in a drug raid, he was off collecting leaves by himself. I've read that some people wonder if he was autistic. No one will ever know, of course.

More on Blind Owl Wilson:

"As a member of Alan’s family I would like to offer my own insight into what Rebecca rightly referred to as his “seemingly” limited emotional range. Certainly he had the emotions required to feel a strong longing for a romantic relationship; to cry when rejected by a woman; to study, in detail and with wonderment, his niece’s tiny fingers as she sat in his lap; and to worry obsessively about the degradation of our environment. He felt the emotional pain of his isolation acutely enough to self medicate with drugs and alcohol. It is well established that he suffered from anxiety and depression which run in his family. What also can be found on his mother’s side of the family are autism spectrum disorders. I believe that Alan had some degree of Aspergers. These “disorders” weren’t well understood or recognized in his time so he was dismissed as brilliant but a little odd. I’m sure it caused him much pain, though, not to have the emotional where-with-all to relate to others within standard social norms. Unfortunately he was born too soon to benefit from what is known now about early interventions for ASD’s and the diagnosis and treatment of related anxiety/ depression disorders.

- Heidi Galgowski, Alan’s 1/2 sister (mother’s side)"

In the misty morning fog with you