Wow, two posts in one day, who’da-thunk!! I told my mom last night about the birthday present I want. I can’t explain why I want it in such a way that anyone would really get the silliness of the gift, but it’s just me!
At this point in life, there isn’t much in the music realm that I enjoy. I listen to talk radio and Broadway show tunes. The kids have their High School Musical 2 soundtrack, Kids Bop (don’t know the number) and Now That’s What I Call Music 22-that filter through at any given time. I don’t mind this, I’m far to mellow needing that if there is silence in the car, I’m Golden!! But if by chance the radio is on and it’s during the talk radio program I’m not a fan of, we move to Jack FM which is an 80/90’s rock station. Good music that!!
But I digress…
Back to my odd little gift! Do you have a moment in time where you were the happiest? Or have the best memories? Mine is 7th grade. That was the year of Band Aid (still get chills every time that song starts at Christmas), but biggest and best of all, that was the year of Duran Duran. My friend Heather and I were IN LOVE with that group! We had their pictures all over our lockers. We had chosen which of the group we were going to marry. You know, tween girl stuff! Then we moved to Farmington, and they weren’t really big there. I had pictures for my locker, but my partner had never heard of them before, so I didn’t get to hang them up. So my obsession slowly died, although I will still turn the radio up when one of their songs comes on.
May 14th, the day before my birthday, Duran Duran is coming in concert and I WILL BE THERE! I’m dragging my husband (a metal head) along with me, but I’ve already let him know that I’m happy to sit this one out alone. I don’t know why it’s so huge to me to be there! They were old when I was 12! I’ll be 37 this year, so most of them have got to be pushing 60! But there is just something inside that “needs” to be there! There are only three concerts I want to see in my life. Duran Duran, Garth Brooks and Neil Diamond–other than that, I’m good!
So yes, silly as it is…come May 15th, I should have some photo’s of a group of old fogies on stage singing hits from a bygone era, and I will have gotten the chills as the show started, sung along with nearly every song, and probably cried like a baby during most of it! But hey, there are just times when you have to “feed” the child within!!