strawberry fields forever

so check out this weird strawberry motif that stalked me everwhere on saturday....

i woke up on saturday, craving strawberry cream cheese. i'm not sure if i dreamt about it, but... i really wanted a toasted bagel with strawberry cream cheese. where better to get one of these than the wonderful bagel store on bedford avenue. so i'm heading out the door and my lips are feeling chapped. i see my strawberry chapstick on the shelf and take it with me, generously applying it on the way to the bagel store. we get there and the strawberry cream cheese is not in stock. however, they do have strawberry bagels. i order that. it was aiite.



we continued walking towards mccarren park, and there's a huge fair going on with little boutique-type sellers in cute tent stores all around the circumference of the park. we walk to fred flare's tent and i see a pair of sunglasses just like the ones i've been looking for... and they are $5. of course, i buy them. (remember, i needed to ditch the sunglasses from the future that jay was making fun of me for.) the guy who sold me the sunglasses then hands me a little freebie gift. it's a tiny cylinder with a strawberry sticker. inside? strawberry seeds. the bottom of the container says "thank you berry much."

later mike and i go grocery shopping and end up buying goya strawberry juice (yummy) and strawberry preserves to spread on our sunday morning bagels. hey, if you can't buy strawberry cream cheese, just make it yourself, right?

even later that night, mike had to go see this band called faces on film at mercury lounge. they sound like modest mouse... i think sometimes, a little too much like modest mouse. but at least they're working on finding their own voice. anyways, we met their manager and he gives us a copy of their cd...



strange? coincidence? does it mean anything? who the hell knows. judging by this record cover, i hope it doesn't mean my strawberry obsession will end up killing me like that corpse. i googled "strawberrys symbolize" and came up with this link to christian symbols. the site has a lot of religious references, but the last line talks about how the strawberry can represent humility. does the cd art perhaps allude to how humility can be the death of you?

then when you google with "strawberries" spelled correctly (haha), it brings you to a page that talks about the history and lore of strawberries. who knew there was so much meaning with this yummy fruit. the site says that the strawberry's heart-shape symbolized purity, passion and healing. it also symbolized venus, the goddess of beauty, so perhaps the cd cover art means beauty and vanity will be the death of you?

ok i think i'm reading too much into this. but still somewhat facinating and amusing, eh?!

anyhoo... i leave you with a cute photo of ziggy yawning. he recently lost his left fang. ;-( but his nose reminds me of a strawberry.