I DO pay attention. I do SEE you.
Can’t always respond to individual comments. Too busy being distracted by my own attempts to distract myself from everything current. So consider this a catchup.
Thanks to Lake. His “randomized” Youtube of my night of searching for love songs makes it look more complete and planned than it was. There’s a rhythm to his playlist I can’t explain even to myself. There are true loves and happy loves and tragic loves and unrequited loves and operatic loves and romantic loves and amazingly lyrical loves and raw, aching loves that break every piece of your heart. Nothing I planned. I combined songs I knew that mean something to me personally with songs culled from a generic search to represent, I hoped, the commonality of romantic love around the globe. One thing that might unite us all even in the worst of times. Lake made it seem like a whole with groupings and transitions and breaks that work. I urge everyone to take a look.
[Link not functional. Working on it. Go to post called Couldn’t Sleep. See Lake’s comment.]
Thanks to Ron. He’s not the only one who peeled off from the preferred pathway to law school back in the day. He got closer than I did to signing up, but then I set a record for weakest application essays to the three law schools I applied to. I’d been aimed at that hell from earliest childhood and I complied in name only. Can’t even remember the three, except that Georgetown was politely uninterested. What I do remember is that when I was a business consultant, I frequently sat with lawyers on planes. I always asked how happy they were with their careers. To a man, they were miserable. Since I’m not miserable, I count that a win.
Thanks to Tim. The only one who had the balls to respond to my politically incorrect post about new gay rules. I suspect a lot of other people are quivering in their foxholes on this subject. Congratulations.
Thanks to Suds46. Highlighting individual songs makes people more likely to listen. You are a key part of the provenance of my list. I am grateful.
And, regrettably…
Thanks to No One. No one can suck it up enough to root for Mylie Cyrus, who has a talent that has been used against her, to ensnare her in bad behaviors and situations her own parents should have protected her from. I stand by what I said.
P.S. Somebody could have liked the Stones concert I posted. It only takes one of you to make me feel a wink has been returned. I always have an ulterior motive. It isn’t interesting that Lady Gaga wanted to be on stage with a bunch of seventy year old rockers who can still outdraw every Top 40 star on the map? No?
Then the hellwitcha. Probably doesn’t matter, either, that this is the only concert where you’ll ever see Jagger and Springsteen together. Not worthy of remark by ANYBODY. Not even my wife. Gift blown off. Incidentally, Jagger’s better. Nothing I can do about the fact you don’t follow links. Why TBB isn’t the best selling book in history. (Also some Stones history on display. Jagger introduced Mick Taylor and the other Stones embraced him. Jagger bumped past him as if he wasn’t there.) Why Jagger is the one star who hasn’t been to rehab. CEO of the greatest rock franchise ever. Ruthless and miraculously energetic. Maybe he knows something all the ones who have died imitating him don’t. It is better to lead than to follow.
Just kidding. The lack of cultural context and sense of humor is something I’m long used to. Already dialed in. I know you’re a very very serious lot. And I work every day at becoming more solemn, as befits my great age.
It sure adds to the fun to have the participation of your readers. Too bad about Miley, though. She may well go the route of some of her Disney predecessors.
Fixed the playlist… and got to revisit it. Funny how you find connections and rhythms between songs, even when they get ‘randomized’. The human heart finds patterns among the random, and I suppose love can be pretty random as well.
As for Miley, hey, I was the one who recommended her hit before this recent phase! Thanks to my volleyball team, my mind was inundated with that catchy bass line and sweet voice long before she perched atop a wrecking ball. I wish her nothing but the best, and I hope she goes the route of at least a Christina Aguilera instead of a Britney. I like her voice, some parts of her look, and hey, I like to see kids succeed despite their failures, influences, or backgrounds. Why I do what I do.
All right, all right. I will give you this: there’s a song she did with daddums called Ready, Set, Don’t Go or something (forgive me for not providing a Youtube link but I’m sure it’s available if you desire a listen). This was done right around the end of the whole Hannah Montana era and you can tell she definitely has A Voice.
I’d imagine it’s also a touching song for those with daughters, but it makes me sad for her, specifically, seeing how she’s gone since that song came out. I have no idea how Billy Ray feels.
I’m not rooting against her and would like to see her do well, but I don’t hold out much hope. Kind of like how I felt about the Kansas City Chiefs this year.
*I meant to copy and paste the bit you said about Miley but forgot. That’s who I’m talking about.
The Chiefs have far less hope. They have Andy Reid. “Got to do a better job.” And when pressed, “Got to do a better job.” Why do you think Philly wanted nothing more than to get rid of this overrated clown of a coach who never answered any question from the press and always always flubbed the time management at the end of games?
What’s worse? Flaming out during the season or making it handily to the playoffs before getting stomped? I’m bracing myself for a New England loss…
Haha! Good point. I’ve been wondering why in the world KC hired him as coach. Now they are stuck with him for several years. Oh well.
And don’t count the Pats out, Lake. If there’s only one constant in the NFL over the last decade it’s to never, ever count the Pats out of any game. I don’t know how they do it, but they find a way even when they have to sign guys off the street to catch the ball.
The one time I thought the Pats would be just fine was that undefeated season. ‘More than just a catch’ indeed. If I expect the worst, I can be pleasantly surprised instead of the reverse. Sports, the one part of my life that I succumb to pessimism.
I’m a Caps fan. Right there with you, buddy.
If these playoffs leave you feeling blue, find footage of the Bruins recent Cup win. I was rooting for them.