Flickr Shot by Today is a good day
What: Sly and the Family Stone’s “Hot Fun in the Summertime”
Who: Those dying from the heat who have access to a grassy lawn and sprinklers.
When/Where: The Valley, the Inland Empire, suburbia front lawns everywhere or city streets with an open fire hydrant during this scorcher of a summer.
Why: It just sounds like the perfect song for a slow-mo montage of kids running and splashing through sprinklers or a gushing fire hydrant, people sitting on porches laughing and drinking iced tea and riots of water balloon fights. The slow pace of this 1969 hit evokes heat-induced lethargy when you only have enough energy to try to keep cool.
’69 was a very good year… as that’s when I was born. Otherwise, here in Houston, we keep getting pounded by rain. I think when the sun finally comes out, you’ll be hearing “At Last” blasting from my stereo.
Not to be pushy, but are you gonna tell us about the Tiki Festival coming up next month on Catalina? It seems like a natural followup to someone’s birthday.
Oh yeah? I’ll look into it.