"California Earthquake" Cass Elliot
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Just ask Cass Elliot.
Surviving the next California earthquake isn't really what's on the mind of an average Californian. Quakes are just part of the scenery like palm trees. It's part of the price paid for living in Paradise.
Seismic thrusts, fault lines and aftershocks are just words, like "Have a nice day". Sure, people know more earthquakes will come, but why dwell on it every day? California living is fun, so thinking about the next California earthquake is a total bummer.
"California Earthquake" is a song by Cass Elliot that typifies this attitude most succinctly. She expressed how most Californians feel in a 1968 interview with Rolling Stone:
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'I heard they exploded the underground blast / What they say is gonna happen is gonna happen at last / That’s the way it appears / They tell me the fault line runs right through here / So that may be, that may be / What’s gonna happen is gonna happen to me / That’s the way it appears.'
"That's where it's at. My sister is a part-time clairvoyant. She says 'Get the baby out of here; move to Kansas'. I say, 'Look, I’m here now. There must be a reason I’m here.' If that’s fatalistic, be that as it may. Where my work is, is where my life is, and if we’re falling into the ocean, we’re falling into the ocean."
"The second verse says:"
'Atlantis will rise / Sunset Boulevard will fall / Where the beach used to be won't be nothin' at all'.
"And what could be more timely than that? It’s where it's at."
- Cass Elliott
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Cass pretty much summed it up. What will be will be. To concentrate on California's next earthquake, before it strikes, would be to miss out on how fantastic California is every single day.
Cass Elliot California Earthquake
