Today I wondered aloud...this is

January 24, 2002

Today I wondered aloud...this is what songwriting is...why smell gets the low priority when speaking of the senses. Why are there not four monkeys sitting in a row -- one with hands over its eyes, one with hands over its ears, one with hands over its mouth, then one plugging its nose? That was a clumsy sentence but you get where I'm coming from. "Smell No Evil" enters into the top ten list of things I will call my first metal record. Evil smells are perhaps much more disturbing than evil sights or sounds. There are words for the state of losing one of the other senses (blind, deaf, dumb, mute). What about someone who can't smell or who doesn't emit any smells? I think they would have a much harder time conjurring up vivid memories without the olfactory trigger. They would have a harder time remembering when to have a shower unless it was ritualized. This brings me to the people I know who have no concept of time. What if they were also deprived of their sense of smell? This leaves the shower thing to a random occurence. Their friends would have to be quite open with them about something most people take offence to. The monkey who is late for the picture would be the fifth monkey. The "no sense of time" monkey. All the other monkeys would resent that monkey for his/her arrogance and selfish behaviour having missed the photo shoot. The only monkey who would be OK with it would be the "see no evil" monkey because he doesn't know the "time is evil" monkey is not there yet. Maybe the "hear no evil" monkey would tell him. It wouldn't be the "speak no evil" monkey because he wouldn't want to cause trouble. You see once again that the "smell no evil" monkey carries the heaviest burden because he has the capacity to try to prop this whole operation up and take some responsibility. Still he gets no respect. Note to self: taste no evil...just a good idea.
CN