Yeah, so I'm running out of episode titles to use as post titles but we still have Sawyer-isms and nicknames we can use. Besides it gives me a chance to put that picture up. Yes, I have a man crush, I'm forty frigging years old I can admit that now! Being forty makes it cute! Least that's what they tell me. Which brings me to this post. Thought I would try my hand at this whole "5 Songs" thing. Here's 5 songs that have helped me along the way to dealing with turning the big 4 oh.
Like A Rock by Bob Seger has always been a favorite song of mine and no, not because I drive a truck, cause I do NOT. Thank the man Jeezus, no. It's a song about a man looking back on his life and remembering a time when he was "Like A Rock". Meaning, to me at least, I might not be as good as I once was but I can still be as good as I was, once. If I have to.
Another Seger song, Rock and Roll Never Forgets, has helped prep me for many years. The opening line So you're a little bit older and a lot less bolder/Than you used to be may be true, except for the less bolder part, I think I'm getting bolder, at least with my mouth I know I am. I don't hold back as much as I used to. Could be a good thing or not. Depends on which side of my mouth you stand on I reckon. So now sweet sixteens turned thirty-one/You get to feelin weary when the work days done I've felt like that for a while now, so yeah this one helps me make it through. Guess you can tell from the pictures, I ain't the only one that has gotten older. Sheesh, is that really the same guy in both pictures? Time is a fickle bitch!
100 Years by Five for Fighting is a microcosm of life. I feel like so many things that have happened in my life "just" happened but the calendar says otherwise. How long has it been since I drove a black Mustang and was called Ooter? Over twenty years. Damn...
Changes by Bowie is another one of those songs to keep in the arsenal. Pretty soon you're gonna get a little older/Time may change me/But I can't trace time the good thing about getting older is it's sort of like a fraternity or a club. You get to 40 and you have younger people making lite of it and using you as the brunt of the joke but it's called Karma buddy. We all do it unless you "River Phoenix" it out of life and if you do, well, that's a shame you didn't get to join the club. Even if I'm not around when they turn 40 I have the confidence that there will be some young whipper snapper waiting in the wings to make them feel "over the hill". Where is this goddamn hill anyway? Besides if I'm at the top of the hill and just went over and am starting to go down the other side, isn't this the best view I'm gonna get? Ha ha blow me 20 somethings!
All These Things That I've Done has been in heavy rotation for the last few years in my CD player. Another of those songs that has helped me brace for the collision with "Father Time". Another head aches, another heart breaks/I am so much older than I can take/And my affection, well it comes and goes/I need direction to perfection, no no no no gives a sort of desperation to aging. Gracefully? I think not. These changes ain't changing me/The cold-hearted boy I used to be . But we do end with a positive thought: Time cures hearts
Landslide by Fleetwood Mac has shown me that hopefully, I still have some mountain to go. I can fight the landslide or I can sail on life's tides. Also makes me grateful for the people in my life. Even for some of those not in my life anymore as much as they used to be that have helped me along the way. Thanks for letting me use you. Also it makes me miss those that have left the world. And yes I can see their reflection in the snow covered hills. This song also reminds me of my Doddy's Mommy who is a huge Stevie Nicks fan. She always used to dress like her, kinda think she probably still does sometimes, and she likes to dance too.
Yeah, I know it's more than five songs, shove off, it's my list and it's my birthday, so hook me up with a quick rusty trombone, will ya! Last song on the list is Puff The Magic Dragon. I was Jackie Paper, at least for a little while. Thankfully I still frolic. Not as often as I used to or would like to. But somewhere I know the ability is still there. I think I need to do that soon now that I think about it.
That's it, now I gotta go drink some prune juice and take a nap. I's tired!
6 comments:
Um, you forgot one.
"The worms crawl in, the worms crawl out..."
But seriously, The Five Songs is copyrighted so you'll be hearing from my lawyer. That is, if your hearing AID is turned up all the way.
But actually, I don't have a problem with any of the songs you chose with the possible exception of the Five For Fighting song because I don't know it. And, of course, there IS a problem with the fact that you left off the "She's old...so old...she's REALLY old" song from the classic MST3K episode "The Atomic Brain".
But let me again wish you a Happy Decay-day ... er, I mean BIRTHday, duddly doo. All I have to say in conclusion is:
"Bring out the old one!"
Oh, and by the way. . .
I heard Sawyer doesn't like OLDER men!
It doesn't matter if he likes older men or not because once Locke "moves" the island back in time Sawyer won't be in the same generation as me although that would then make me a younger guy.
what a gay old bastard youve turned out to be have a happy b-day or hope u had a happy one whatever
Yes...well...I now own Five For Fighting's "100 Years". I haven't listened to it. . .but I own it, goddamnit!!!
That's good, that's actually pretty fast for a guy your age! Make sure you have your ear horn turned up so you can hear it. And you do remember it's the thin end that goes in your ear right?
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