Why must you mock me so?

I'm speaking of music...and where it can take you

The Little River Band.
They're following me.

Not exactly in the upper echelon of Rock Gods.
1. Beatles
2. Stones
3. Little River Band

...not quite.

I don't know anyone whose favorite band is LRB (using initials going forward).
I don't know anyone that owns a LRB album...or cassette..or CD..or has ever downloaded a song by them.

Yet they torment me.

The song that was playing on my alarm this morning was this....

Lady.

It had just started and I only heard the first couple of lines...
"Look around you, look up here
Take time to make time
Make time to be there"

Then I shut the alarm off, pulled myself out of bed and commenced to the bathroom (promise not to get graphic).




In my grogginess I found myself subconciously reaching for the rest of the lyrics to that song. 15 seconds later as I was standing there (don't make me paint the picture any more than that), and I caught myself running through the rest of the lyrics.

"A long time ago
I had a lady to love
She made me think of things
I never thought of
Now she's gone and I'm on my own
A love song has come into my mind
A love song
It was there all the time"

and then it really kicked in....or should I say I kicked in.

I thought to myself "Why"? "Why do I know these words"? "How can I know these words"? "Should I tell anyone I know these words"?...and more importantly,  "What day is it"? (Roughly in that order).

It dawned on me that this wasn't the only LRB song that I had recently heard.

There was "Lonesome Loser" the other day.
I won't bother with the lyrics because I know you're already singing them in your head.


Before that I came across "Reminiscing" and it got me to thinking that I do an awful lot of that.

A day or two before that was "Cool Change" and I even thought to myself, "That's not too bad"...and it wasn't. It's got all of these images about sailing (which I don't do) and overall extremely syrupy sweet lyrics, but I do like the use of the words "It's time for a cool change".

Not all that surprising, unfortunately.

Speaking of reminiscing, that brings me back to this...

Scene:
Outside on the lawn of a corporate office with about twenty other coworkers
Purpose:
"Team building exercise"
Mission:
Build trust by telling the group something about you that no one in the group knows.

So we go round the circle.
It gets to me.
I unleash this corker.

"I know every word to every song in the movie Grease"


Well, I did. I might still.

What I didn't mention was I also knew every word to every song on the White Album...or Joe's Garage....or Dark Side of the Moon..or , I don't know, even Pet Sounds.

But everyone probably already knew that.

...which leads me here...

This whole next paragraph is going to be in parentheses, because I feel my use of parentheses is sort of like my pulling you aside and whispering in your ear. At least that how I picture it.

(Speaking of songs from Grease has anyone caught the horrendous use of the Grease song "Summer Nights" to promote Nissan's new Summer Savings Event(!!!). I've never been a fan of pulling a rock or pop song into a commercial but the liberties taken with this one are atrocious. Actually the twisted lyrics only last about fifteen seconds, but it is the most excrutiatingly painful 15 seconds anyone can endure. It's the commercial equivalent to waterboarding. What's worse is the faux fun everyone appears to be having at the dealership. It's like an Osmond family variety show skit gone horribly wrong in so many ways. It makes me curse out loud. I threw the television off the roof of my house the last time it came on. It was worth it. The next time I see it I might do something really drastic.)

That being said here it is. I'll leave the room while it plays. I can't afford to stuff my computer into the garbage disposal.

Enjoy.

Jesus, even the frozen fame just made me throw up in my mouth a little bit.

Where was I?

Oh, what I was going to add to the brief conversation I had with myself standing in front of the toilet was the thought "How did I get here?"

Which briefly interupted my LRB joyfest in front of the toilet with Talking Heads "Once in a Lifetime"

I'll leave you with this...Turn this one up!

There's that's more like it.

Same as it ever was.