02:00 - Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006
rambling nostalgic, like the real old folks do, and other stuff, words of wisdom, and a comic strip!!!
howdee everyone!!!
nothing like getting a last minute call to come to work!! oh joy!!
really though, i dont mind. gets me outta the house.
what you are hearing now, is Elvis singing unchained melody. he is on the piano, rapid city, june 21st, 1977, thats charlie hodge holding the boom mike in front of Elvis. this has got to be the greatest version of this song ever sung. the range of the voice is just tremendous!!! especially toward the end of the song. after 29 years, it STILL brings a chill to me. 29 years! a lifetime! yet, its just yesterday.
somedays, like today for instance. my mind wanders back to the days when i was able to see Elvis live on stage. 1972,1973,1974,1975,and 1977. 1976 was filled with "A" school in the navy, and duty, and couldnt get away. i was able to get leave for the month of june, 1977, and seen Him in Rapid City, and Indianapolis. and, when he died in august, i didnt give a shit about anything anymore. i just went thru the motions, hell i dont even have a clear memory of things. i got married, and had some kids, all inna drunken stupor.
im not blaming my shit on Elvis death. that shit i done was entirely my fault. but im done with it now. somethings i can recall, others i cant. the brain is like that i suppose. im just happy in that i have clear memories of Elvis, and the joy in my heart when i look back.
yea, to most people he was just an entertainer, just another person who sang songs. but, to me, he is much more than that, he is embedded into my psyche, for as long as i can remember, and the earliest childhood memoryi have, i suppose it was 1959 or 1960. i heard Elvis sing. my brother who died in vietnam, he was a huge fan, i guess i got it from him. i remember him taking me to saturday movies, and seeing Elvis on the movie screen. didnt matter what the movie was, there he was on the screen!!
1972 i ran away from home, managed to get into madison square garden and seen Elvis live and in person!!!!! oh hot damn!!!! i ran away from home quite a bit when i was a kid. how i managed to finish high school, is a miracle in itself.
sometimes my brain gets stuck in the 70's. i can tell you chapter and verse of every single song Elvis ever recorded from the beginning of time. but play some one elses song, and i cant tell you jack about it. oh, i reconise the songs, i just cant tell you the names of them, and who is singing half the time. i know some beatles songs, i know thier voice, but the names of the songs? forgetaboutit.
sometimes i sit and wonder why my brain works like it does. i sit sometimes and listen to an oldies radio station, and theres a song i know. but i dont know the name and whos singing. sometimes the DJ comes on and sez, that was ricky nelson. and i say, ohhh ok. BLANK.
i grew up in a music era that has been called the greatest music of all time. and i cant recall most of it. but throw an Elvis song in there, and out will come the name, the recording date, so on, and so forth.
There was a movie that came out some years ago, called the philadelphia experiment; they made 2 of em. its where this top secret experiment aboard a naval vessel, it transported the entire ship back to WW2, and they changed history, by sending F-16's up into the sky at pearl harbour when the japs came attacking, and scared them away, and changed history.
often times i find myself daydreaming about being able to travel back in time myself, and do a lil history changing. sometimes i feel i need a do-over. o well.
Ever wonder if you have taken the right path in life? the decisions that you made led you to where you are today, and are the right choices you made to get where you are today? Come to a crossroads, and think, well, if i go left, this will happen, or go right, what will i come into?over 2 years ago, i made a choice to come here, to move into the hotel, and eventually ask doyle for a job. at the time, i really was only gonna stay a few months or so, but as the job progressed, i seen success creeping in slowly. i was always afraid of success, and what it would bring me. now, i dont fear it. i am successful at my life right now, and im still here!! but, now, im at sort of a crossroads. theres a decision here that will have to be made soon, and im a lil impatient about it. when i realised that i can advance at this job i have and imporve my life, i set a goal for myself, and i havent done that in years, and i am about to attain that goal. and its a lil scary.
i am not going to get a car. that i decided over the weekend. i dont need one, plain and simple.the director comes back in a few weeks, and when he does, I MYSELF will attempt to get his attention, and talk to him about the situation here. and convince him i can do the job without a damn car. if in the end, its decided that they wont hire me as a manager, well i will just sit tight and wait. they will eventually. they plan on getting a bunch of properties in the upcoming year? well they will need managers for them!!!
well, its almost 2 am, i been here 12 hours already. doyle lets me come in 2 hours early, and it benefits both of us. he gets outta here 2 hrs. early, and i get 2 extra hours in on the pay check. he will come out around 7:30 and tell me to go home. i work for fat jason on wednesday into thursday, then im taking saturday off, as there is a VA open house going on here saturday, free food and free stuff!!! then doyles taking next wednesday off, so theres more hours.
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