Mondays Mostly Musical Missives With A Mass Media Misgiving

• There was a television going in my patients room the night Drew Peterson was arrested for the murder of his wife. The news came out early, was pervasive and was the top story literally until I walked out the door. Nearly everyone I've spoken to since has mentioned the case.



• Why? Who cares besides family, friends etc.? And if they do- again, why?



• Earlier my son was listening to Ozzy Ozbornes Crazy Train. Yesterday when working on the neighbors riding mower her son was listening to Iron Man.



• There's hope for this world after all.



• Never understood why Bush was never more popular than they were or why the wave they were on crested in the 90s and they sort of tailed off. Even stranger (to me at least) they were from England but, never were very popular there. They broke up in 2002 but, Gavin Rossdale has been hinting at a reunion.



• Just picture my old butt waving a cigarette lighter to Glycerine and jumping around to Machinehead.



• Probably don't want to picture it too long though.



• Chevelle is one of my all time favorite bands but, oddly I don't own a single cd of theirs or have any of their music on my laptop.



• Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe all stop me dead in my tracks whenever I hear anything of theirs and when I'm in the mood and put their music on I don't do or think about anything else.



• A cousin to Lester Flatt was one of my professors in college.



• One of the best live shows I've ever been to is still Meatloafs. He did songs from both Bat Outta Hell and Bad Attitude.



• Meatloaf was born and raised in Dallas TX but, oddly was and is still way more popular in England.
• No, he didn't play Lumpy on Leave It To beaver.



• I have at least 10 musical instrument in my house and I can't play a single one though I'll randomly pick one up occasionally and mess around with it.



• Was pretty good at the trombone in school though and keep daring myself to take it back up.



• Craig's Music in Weatherford TX is about 12 minutes from my house, has some great live music acts very often and I never been and I don't know why.



• I know someone whose servers at their job has over 250,000 songs on it for consumption by employees. Another guy has over 3000 full length movies on his.



• Didn't know there were that many of either anywhere.



• Actually I did of course but, man that would be cool to have access to that kind of free, safe music and movies.


• Some music that I like but, a little goes a long way with me: Bluegrass, Techno and just a little Hip Hop.
• Synthesizer by Electronic Six- still such a great techno song don't care when it gets lodged in my brain for hours on end.
• My neighbor was in a band with Roy Orbisons son Wes Orbison but, he died before they could take off with it- one more reason his death was so sad.
• Toadies: great rock music by Texans who lost themselves somewhere- terrible after their comeback, sorry to say.
• Dred Zeppelin: Led Zep songs to a reggae beat sung by an Elvis impersonator- genius.
• Fats Domino singing Blueberry Hill and Ain't That a Shame. BB King Singing The Thrill Is Gone and Hank Williams The Lost Highway all make my hair stand on end like no other and I'll let you guess which is the most nearly autobiographical.

A Sad Memory

One of my best friends in college happened to be one of the most decent people overall I've ever met she also:

Was one of the smartest

One of the most patient and best teachers who always had time to help anyone with a math problem but, she specifically helped kids as a tutor.

Was a sunday school and vacation Bible school teacher

Very funny

Very pretty

She also weighed well over 300 pounds and this coupled with my friendship of her showed me a dark side of human behavior I've not been able to forget. After we parted ways following lunch one day I heard something 2 guys said as they went past me, I looked back to see them holding their arms out as if over fat and waddling back and forth mocking her. The next two guys walked toward her head on and when they got a few feet behind her started pointing and laughing. A group of three people- two guys and one girl then passed her and did the same thing.

Wow, I may be naieve but, I simply could not comprehend that adult human beings were capable of such gratuitous viciousness. No one would have that coming to them but, I simply cannot over emphasize what a decent person she was. She did nothing to deserve their mockery. She was only walking to her dorm from lunch.

Seven people encountered her who could have been polite said Hello and gone about their business, maybe stopped and got to know her even or just ignored her if nothing else yet they decided to do their part to destroy a decent human being.

The worst part? She realised what was going on and later apoligised to me, in case I was embarassed or if being around her had ever embarassed me.

That was nearly 20 years ago and the thought still makes me want to cry.