Sign of the Times

PREPARED TO TAKE MY CRAZINESS TO A WHOLE NEW LEVEL...

Well, I think I am prepared to take my craziness to a whole new level. And we all know just how crazy I already am...
Friday November 5th, I was walking around town. I had walked for hours...met up with Magda in Beverly Hills, went to the Beverly Center Mall, bummed around there for awhile, then walked up to Hollywood to do the "Walk of Stars" and figure out exactly where they could put my star when I am finally famous...
I had been walking for about 8 hours at that point...perhaps, I had become a bit delirious...
I crossed the street at Santa Monica Blvd (where I usually do not cross on any of my walks)...as I was standing on the corner of Santa Monica, this guy comes up to me and asks me for a cigarette...now, I must preface this whole encounter with the idea that at first, I thought he might be homeless...perhaps, if I did not, the night would have taken a different turn and I would not now be in my present predicament...
I was a little frightened of him at first...his hands and fingernails were all dirty, so I assumed he was just one of the homeless people who sometimes stand out on that corner...and it was right in front of the Carl's Jrs. on Santa Monica and LaBrea...the spot that a knowledgeable source had once informed me the transvestite hookers stand looking for their next "johns"...so, this is the mindframe I am in...
The guy tells me that his name is Clint....he looks at my pentacle and asks, "Are you wiccan?" And I respond that I am...He says that he is as well..."Romany," he explains...He says that the radiator just blew out on his car and that is why he is standing there on the street corner waiting...I told him that I could sympatize, "The same thing happened to me this summer," I expain...thinking of the time that our car blew it's radiator out on the Arborway and by the luck of the draw, Cutter just happened to be driving along and stopped to help us...
"Well, I'll get it fixed...I'm a mechanic," Clint says.
"Gosh, you're really beautiful," he says, "really beautiful."
He tells me that he lives in North Hollywood and usually doesn't hang out in my neighborhood. He tells me that he goes to a place called "Raven's Flight" (I later look this place up and find out it is a pagan shop in North Hollywood)...
He's just staring at me...he asks me if I am from around there...I tell him, "No, I just moved here from Boston."
"Well, welcome," he says, "I'm from Tennessee..."
The light turns green and I walk on...I was struggling inside...he didn't ask for my number...how will he find me again? How will I find him? Should I be bold and turn around and walk back and give him my number? He was very cute...and obviously into me...and oh, his hands must have been dirty because his car just broke down and he is a mechanic and was trying to fix it...all of this dawns on me...I want to be bold and turn around and go back to him...but I keep walking...
I get home and bust into Beth's bedroom..."I just did something really stupid..."
"What?" she asks.
"Well, I just met this really cute guy and I didn't get his number." I tell her the whole story...
We go back. She says she will go into Target and I can just pretend I was going for a walk with her and happened to run into him again...
But he is gone...and I have no way to find him...I know that he goes to this shop in North Hollywood...
The next day, I drive to the shop, but the store owner doesn't know him...there is a yahoo group that some of the store's patrons belong to...I join it...I think about sending out an email to the group...that I am looking for this guy...that I would like to talk to him some more...
I can't stop thinking of him...he has been in my dreams since we met...am I crazy??? Yes, clearly...but I also believe in fated encounters...I've got to find this guy...
God, I wish I could go back and instead of walking on, tell him I'll wait with him while he is waiting on his car to be fixed...
But I can't go back...I have to find him...yes, crazy I know...and I will go back to that store and to the events that they host until I find him or someone who knows him...
Beth suggests we look up all the garages in North Hollywood and call them all asking for Clint until we find the one where he works...yes, crazy...but there was just something about this guy and the whole encounter was so surreal...
Perhaps he put a spell on me...he's a witch, afterall...so, I would try to find him...
Yes, we are prepared to take my craziness to a whole new level...
But in any case, it has provided material for yet another song...rock out...
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NEVER KNOW
I should not have been there
What was I doing there?
I took a wrong turn on the wrong street
Standing on the corner
You asked me for a cigarette
Your car had broke down on the wrong street

And we...we talked for a moment
We touched for a moment
Then the moment was gone
And I walked on but...

YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
A LOVER, A FRIEND, OR A FOE...
BUT NOW I'LL NEVER KNOW
I GUESS I'LL NEVER KNOW...

I kept walking home
I couldn't help myself
I kept thinking of you...it was too late
Went back to where you were
You were already gone
I couldn't find you...I was too late

And you...I should have waited with you
While you waited for your car
I should have waited for you
Now, I don't know where you are and

YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
A LOVER, A FRIEND, OR A FOE
BUT NOW I'LL NEVER KNOW
NOW, I'LL NEVER KNOW
I GUESS I'LL NEVER KNOW

You...
Without even trying
Had this affect on me
Without even trying
You...
How will I find you?
In a city this big
How will I ever find you again?

I...I should have waited for you
I left a moment too soon
I should have waited with you
Was it fate that I found you?

YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
A LOVER, A FRIEND, OR A FOE...
YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
YOU...COULD BE ANYBODY
A LOVER, A FRIEND, OR A FOE
BUT NOW I'LL NEVER KNOW
NOW, I'LL NEVER KNOW
I GUESS I'LL NEVER KNOW...
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