When "Hello Mary" came on it brought back a flood of memories of a recent break up where a woman dumped me after I had quickly fallen for her
Common reaction! That album takes me straight back to the first year of my Masters Program. I was living in a small Kansas town trying to force myself to dry out, get an education and become part of the living. I picked up Bedtime Stories at the Library of all places. I couldn't find another copy so I considered "losing" the disc and paying the library for it. Fortunately I picked up my copy of that disc a week later down in Stillwater Oklahoma for 4 bucks in a used CD place that was going out of business. I ran to the car to play it.
Liberty Lies: This song is the soundtrack of the town I was living in. Hays Kansas is an isolated college town about halfway between Denver and Kansas City. The people there are proud and a bit zenophobic. I was there from 94 to 99 and I never truely entered the culture, not that I didn't try. They're good people and I'm not one of them. Mickey Spillane goes to their octoberfest pretty regularly.
Stranger: I had a friend who was a combat vet from Vietnam. He died of lung cancer a few months after we met. His landlord let him live in a trailer out behind our house. He was barely a wisp, thin from medication and cancer but he always smiled. He had two children under the age of 10.
Young Anymore: I met my wife and step daughter in that town the first year I was there. Soon after we started dating my wife, someone took a picture of the three of us and I realized that I'd finally become an adult. This song perfectly illustrates the epiphany that we've become something we never thought possible. Sometimes it means we've turned into our parents, a corporate drone, a has-been, burnout or a nobody. I looked at that picture and I saw my father standing there and suddenly that song was about me.
By the way, David, I don't really think you're communicating directly to me with your music in a Mansonesque sort of dillusion. (I think this thought deserves more consideration)
However, this album just fit at the time. I think that shows an amazing amount of insight to write a piece of music that all sorts of people can relate to.
PRH
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When "Hello Mary" came on it brought back a flood of memories of a recent break up where a woman dumped me after I had quickly fallen for her
Common reaction! That album takes me straight back to the first year of my Masters Program. I was living in a small Kansas town trying to force myself to dry out, get an education and become part of the living. I picked up Bedtime Stories at the Library of all places. I couldn't find another copy so I considered "losing" the disc and paying the library for it. Fortunately I picked up my copy of that disc a week later down in Stillwater Oklahoma for 4 bucks in a used CD place that was going out of business. I ran to the car to play it.
Liberty Lies: This song is the soundtrack of the town I was living in. Hays Kansas is an isolated college town about halfway between Denver and Kansas City. The people there are proud and a bit zenophobic. I was there from 94 to 99 and I never truely entered the culture, not that I didn't try. They're good people and I'm not one of them. Mickey Spillane goes to their octoberfest pretty regularly.
Stranger: I had a friend who was a combat vet from Vietnam. He died of lung cancer a few months after we met. His landlord let him live in a trailer out behind our house. He was barely a wisp, thin from medication and cancer but he always smiled. He had two children under the age of 10.
Young Anymore: I met my wife and step daughter in that town the first year I was there. Soon after we started dating my wife, someone took a picture of the three of us and I realized that I'd finally become an adult. This song perfectly illustrates the epiphany that we've become something we never thought possible. Sometimes it means we've turned into our parents, a corporate drone, a has-been, burnout or a nobody. I looked at that picture and I saw my father standing there and suddenly that song was about me.
By the way, David, I don't really think you're communicating directly to me with your music in a Mansonesque sort of dillusion. (I think this thought deserves more consideration)
However, this album just fit at the time. I think that shows an amazing amount of insight to write a piece of music that all sorts of people can relate to.
PRH
Common reaction! That album takes me straight back to the first year of my Masters Program. I was living in a small Kansas town trying to force myself to dry out, get an education and become part of the living. I picked up Bedtime Stories at the Library of all places. I couldn't find another copy so I considered "losing" the disc and paying the library for it. Fortunately I picked up my copy of that disc a week later down in Stillwater Oklahoma for 4 bucks in a used CD place that was going out of business. I ran to the car to play it.
Liberty Lies: This song is the soundtrack of the town I was living in. Hays Kansas is an isolated college town about halfway between Denver and Kansas City. The people there are proud and a bit zenophobic. I was there from 94 to 99 and I never truely entered the culture, not that I didn't try. They're good people and I'm not one of them. Mickey Spillane goes to their octoberfest pretty regularly.
Stranger: I had a friend who was a combat vet from Vietnam. He died of lung cancer a few months after we met. His landlord let him live in a trailer out behind our house. He was barely a wisp, thin from medication and cancer but he always smiled. He had two children under the age of 10.
Young Anymore: I met my wife and step daughter in that town the first year I was there. Soon after we started dating my wife, someone took a picture of the three of us and I realized that I'd finally become an adult. This song perfectly illustrates the epiphany that we've become something we never thought possible. Sometimes it means we've turned into our parents, a corporate drone, a has-been, burnout or a nobody. I looked at that picture and I saw my father standing there and suddenly that song was about me.
By the way, David, I don't really think you're communicating directly to me with your music in a Mansonesque sort of dillusion. (I think this thought deserves more consideration)
However, this album just fit at the time. I think that shows an amazing amount of insight to write a piece of music that all sorts of people can relate to.
PRH
