Random Thinking

I have country songs stuck in my head. One of them is a Glen Campbell song. I like the guy. It's just that to me he is the Barry Manilow of country. I liked it better when I had Hank Williams stuck in my head singing, "Hank why do you drink?........It's a family tradition!" None of these can compare to the days when I have the Goofy Goober song from Spongebob Squarepants on repeat play up in my head. "I'm a goofy goober yeah! You're a goofy goober yeah!..." Once in awhile a Veggie Tale song will trail through. I especially love the cheeseburger song. These will get mixed in with short memories of  The Pee Wee Herman show or snippets from Groucho Marx.

Forget about it if classical music is playing. I am either reminded of every old cartoon I saw with the dancing and singing flowers and the buzzing bees or Snow White running through the frightening, gnarly forest trees as the wind whipped around her and the branches seemed to reach out to grab her. The classical music for those cartoons fed my imagination bringing more and more into that world and further from my seat on the floor.

Or, classical music again, I choreographic dances and musicals in my head as the music plays. I may be still on the outside. On the inside I am busy placing dancers, imagining their dances and the scenes.

But opera? Oh dear opera of mine! I have no idea what they are saying but I love it anyway. When I play opera music I become an opera star. I sing out with all I have to give and throw my arms wide in the pathos of the story. It does not matter that I don't know the story or that I sound like a feral cat gone mad or that I have about five feet of space. No! What matters is the absolute and complete majesty of the opera music and the opera singer bursting forth in utter abandonment to the experience.

Rock and roll? Oh hell yeah!! I don't become anyone else or build scenarios or pretend that I can sing those songs. They are my heart. They are at the birth of me. Jazz, blues, soul music, Dylan, beach music, The Supremes....does it get any better?

Gospel music makes a fool outta me. I sing, dance and amen right along with the songs wishing I had a church to be jumping and praising God in as the music calls me higher and higher. I hope there is Gospel Music in Heaven.

That's about it! Sweet Dreams!