The Ghost in You

One of my old college housemates added a "five bands I've seen in concert" list to his Facebook page which included George Clinton, The Dead, The Pogues, Iggy Pop and Sonic Youth. I responded that I had seen three of those bands, also, but asked why he omitted the Black Flag concert that we went to together! It was a memorable evening not only because Henry Rollins delivers an intense stage performance but also because the mosh pit took up the better part of the bar.

No one was safe.

My girlfriend Berrie had to wear shorts the next morning to breakfast in the dining hall because her legs were covered with bruises and she couldn't get her pants on. I spent the whole night dodging 200 lb. men who were dive bombing the audience from the stage.

Those were the days!

SU had great concerts in the early 80s from huge shows in the Carrier Dome to smaller venues such as the Landmark Theater, the Jabberwocky and the Lost Horizon. In four short years, I saw The Who, my main man Bowie, the Grateful Dead, The Clash (Buffal0), Elvis Costello (Rochester), Joe Jackson, The Psychedelic Furs, Otis Day and The Knights, Cindy Lauper, The Cult, The Thompson Twins, etc. I wonder if there are any I'm forgetting . . .

It's amazing that I graduated given the amount of fun I was having!

Things that Perplex Me

Why was I, someone with a passion for music, given the world’s worst voice? Why was I, someone who loves traveling and adventure, paired up with a man who prefers to stay at home? How can I reconcile my refusal to buy shampoos with parabens and sodium lauryl sulfate with my fondness for ingesting toxins in the form of martinis with my girlfriends? Why am I more comfortable slam dancing in a dive bar than I am moving my body during worship at church?

And lastly, why does contemporary Christian music have to be so lame? Every cell in my body screams in protest when I’m listening to the radio and John Tesh electronica crap comes on. Why Lord? Why? I’m really trying here.

If only Bowie would convert and record a new CD . . .