Once upon a time there was a story and a title that didn’t match. The title mentioned roaches and a place called San Pablo, while the story had nothing whatsoever to do with bugs or places.
It all began when some guy, we’ll call him, Me, asked Alexa to play a song. The song was some long-ago tune I had heard but couldn’t pronounce correctly, so Alexa kept saying she didn’t have it.
Turns out the song was Russian. It was called, “Ochi Chyornye” (Очи чёрные) — often misspelled as Ohchachonia. When I went to Microsoft Copilot and asked for assistance, it said that Ochachonia was some mythical village located in the southern most region of the Couch Cushion Islands, where car keys and popcorn kernels live out their days in harmony.
This sounded a bit suspicious, so I kept searching. My next stop was Chat GBT. I entered what I thought was close enough to
land me in the vicinity and it worked.
Chat knew right away it was Russian and even spelled it correctly. I went to bed that night knowing I was getting
closer, but what was my next move?
I knew there must be a way I could hear this music, but how? I doubt radio stations would help me. I’d sound like an idiot. Then, around 2 am, it came to me. I had the spelling, so why not just type it into the computer and tell it to play. So, the following morning that is exactly what I did. I turned the sound up on my system and typed it all in. Low and behold, YouTube popped up with all kinds of versions of that song. We had liftoff. It was just as I had remembered it.
My next attempt was to ask Alexa to play Dark
Eyes. That is the English translation of
Ochachonia. It wasn’t even close, she
played Blowing in the Wind, by Bob Dylan.
Not sure why, but Bob Dylan made me think of roaches. No, not that kind.
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