Blogs are so passe and pretentious. Oh well, here's my blog about music that's stuck in my head when I wake up in the mornings along with adventures of the Cash family and wacky wacky crazy wacky shenanigans.
I'm on a highway somewhere between Carson City and Fernlee, Nevada. I woke up this morning in my motel room knowing that I have a long drive ahead of me.
No surprise that this 1980 hit weaseled its way into my head. Here's Willie Nelson's "on the road again"
I have an 8 hour drive ahead of me. I've been at a funeral service for a beloved cousin. And further complicating this drive is the fact that I'm in a 5 passenger car with 5 people. We're packed like sardines but we're family and like each other.
Have a great weeks y'alls.
OH, PS- The reason I know this song is not because of Willie Nelson, it's because of Alvin and the Chipmunks! Thanks, Childhood Memory, for this treasure of 80's popular culture that I'm sharing with you now.
I'm sure there are others who suffer the same kind of sickness that I do when it comes to music being stuck in your head.
Let me just give you a walkthrough of what Wednesday morning was like for me this week.
5:30 A.M. I wake up and hear the baby crying. The song "Agony" from INTO THE WOODS is playing in my head:
"AGONY" from INTO THE WOODS
I get up with my wife to help with the baby. As I stand, half-awake, noticing her make a bottle, loving her for being such a good wife/mother/woman, another song came to my mind, perhaps maybe not the most relevent, but a love song the same.
"TO ALL THE GIRLS I'VE LOVED BEFORE" by JULIO IGLESIAS & WILLIE NELSON
The baby had some prescription eye drops for pink eye that we had decided to give to him while he drank his bottle. I was giving him the bottle, and Megan was getting the eye drops ready. It was taking longer than I wanted it to while the baby quickly drank and milk was fast running out. I was worried that there wouldn't be enough milk to distract him before putting drops in his eyes. The next song started to play....
"RUNNING OUT OF TIME" by HOT HOT HEAT
Luckily we got the drops in his eyes and the baby went back to sleep. Exhausted, we got ourselves back in bed. As I hoped to drift back to sleep, a new song started playing. One that I am currently learning for an upcoming production at the nearby theater.
"COME SPIRIT, COME CHARM" from THE SECRET GARDEN
The moment had finally calmed but I was stuck with the madness of my mind and the morning music shuffle had permanently disrupted my sleep. Soon after I started the shower and began another day.
