Anjani: A Muse Amused?
Anjani On DrHGuy: Jejune, Yet Not Without A Certain Charm
This Sunday past, the Heck Of A Guy Blog had an unexpected, but unquestionably welcome, visitor, who left, as a calling card, a comment on Music Recommendation That Will Make You Want To Kiss Me.
Go ahead, check it out; I know you’re curious about who it is. I’ll wait here, humming the Jeopardy tune that played while each contestant scrawled his or her “Final Jeopardy” answer, in the form of a question.
Da, da, da , da da, da, daaa, da, da, da, da, dah!, da, da da da da, da da, da, da da, da, …
Cool, eh?
And, take a look this screenshot of the Press page of the Blue Alert web site:
OK, before I get the emails and comments informing me that, as that New Yorker cartoon has it, “on the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog,” I am all too aware that that the comment could have actually been written by a large, malodorous, unshaven, chain smoking publicist’s assistant of indeterminate gender paid scarcely more than a living wage to reinforce and influence impressionable bloggers who write positive reviews of Anjani’s music. But, you know what? I don’t think Anjani rolls that way.
In any case, I’m certainly choosing to believe otherwise.
In fact, I think if I had handled things differently, …
Where I Might Have Gone Wrong
After re-reading my review of Blue Alert, I recognize that it may have been well put yet off-putting and that, despite my enthusiasm for her music, I might have constructed a more seductive post.
I now realize, for example, that labeling one section, “Lenny & Anji,” could be considered, at least by the more staid sort, as a tad presumptuous. Further, I would admit that comparing my serendipitous discovery of the Blue Alert album to the blind date that led to the catastrophe known as my first marriage was not an altogether ideal association.
OK, even though it was meant only as good-natured kidding, it may have been over the top, snarkicity-wise, to write,
… I was only looking for a good time, not a long term relationship. But, hey, she was hanging out with Leonard Cohen so she was probably into that sort of thing, right?
And, in some circles, I suppose, publicly sharing my vision of a foursome featuring Anjani, Tanita Tikaram, Holly Cole, et moi in the post’s introduction could bespeak a certain intemperance and puerility. (Thank goodness, I didn’t have time to go into detail about the specialized equipment featured in those images; impertinence can have its appeal but perversity seems better introduced on the second or even the third date. )
How It Went Down
After an exhaustive survey of the possible sequences of events, factoring in my array of information about Anjani and Leonard Cohen as well as my knowledge and experience as a hot shot psychiatrist, it’s clear to me that the only likely scenario that is consistent with … well, with my narcissistic fantasy is that, upon reading my post, Anjani was instantly infatuated with me, spent anguished days weighing her options, discussed her struggle with Leonard (who initially looked upon on her crush on me with a baleful eye but came to display a bemused perspective about Anjani’s newly directed affections and a begrudging respect for me, influenced in part by his reading of my post, The Best Leonard Cohen Song You’ve (Probably) Never Heard), and finally decided that, tragically, as a musician and as Leonard’s main muse, she owed too much to the music world to pursue her yearnings for me.
That is, of course, the message carefully encoded between the lines of her comment.1
Oh, I almost forgot. She was also totally turned on by the notion of the foursome and wondered how I would feel about mixing and matching with Tina Turner and Joan Jett (as it turns out, I would have been down with that).
It’s my blog, and I’ll confabulate if I want to.
Update: Anjani’s Response - It’s Pandoracious!
Anjani and Anjani Thomas: An Aside On Names
Anjani and Anjani Thomas are, for the purposes of the Heck of a Guy blog, synonymous names, both of which refer to the exotically lovely, dulcet-voiced singer best known for her Blue Alert CD and her long-term relationship with Leonard Cohen. I include this clarification on posts about Anjani-Anjani Thomas in part for the purpose of what the folks at Wikipedia call disambiguation (i.e., to positively identify for the reader and remove any doubts the reader might have about which Anjani of all the possible Anjanis is being discussed) and in part to aid and abet the search engines. While a rose is, famously, a rose is a rose, a “tea rose,” for example, is not exactly the same as a “rose” - especially to a search engine. Searches that include “Anjani” as part of the search terms may not produce the same results as the same search terms other with “Anjani Thomas” substituted for “Anjani.” Should any other Anjani, say one who has not produced a CD called “Blue Alert” or one who has not been associated with Leonard Cohen for the decade, I promise to do my best to make that identification clear as well.
Footnotes
- A minor implication of this erotically-charged hypothesis is that the title of this post should be “A Muse Aroused” rather than “A Muse Amused” but I’m a sucker for wordplay and, besides, a smidge of humility befits the situation. Doesn’t it? No, you’re right, it’s just the wordplay thing. ~back~
Why does this all make me think of Pandora’s Box, as it were?
Comment by mrslinklater — August 8, 2006 @ 3:35 pm
Dear HGuy,
I write regarding a number of points:
1. As a fellow proponent of proper syntax and spelling, kindly correct the typo in that comment from “my” to “me”
2. The Contact and Subscribe tabs at the top of the page don’t lead anywhere but home.
3. You rascally scamp! Never would I consider a fourway with Tina and Joan Jett…however, Tina and Tanita remain an intriguing possibility.
Yours Truly,
AT
Comment by anjani — August 12, 2006 @ 6:08 pm
1. Yes, Ma’am
2. Yes, Ma’am*
3. Yes, Ma’am
* The move to a new server and new URL has just become a a tad less atraumatic. (See The Move: Status Check). I shall reprimand Shane, my otherwise perfect net-tech genius, rather sternly. The tabs are now functional again.
Comment by DrHGuy — August 13, 2006 @ 5:19 am