Saturday, February 9, 2008

and yes...you look wonderful tonight

I was driving home tonight from a friend's and flipping through stations on the radio (yes, i'm back in the dark ages with no xm, sirius or hd radio and no tv) and the two i generally prefer had non-stop ads. It makes me wonder just how much or how little you pay for the midnight spots. Anyhow, I flipped by the oldies station and thought i heard Tears From Heaven and groaned and wondered just how young the oldies have gotten. I must admit it seems completely unreasonable for 1980 to be 28 years ago. I tried the two alternative (ahem, mainstream) stations again and then flipped back to the oldies station determined to sit through it because at least it was music and not some stupid advert.

I almost cried for the second time tonight.

It was Eric Clapton's song "Wonderful Tonight". It's pretty yes. I know this isn't typically what I like to listen to. But life isn't all about psychobilly, punk, and rockabilly now is it? It's also disco and heavy metal and power ballads (if you ever wondered what good heavy metal was, let me point you in this direction) and, and, and....

The point is I thought about this former boyfriend I had the pleasure of knowing. He loved me. I know that much is true. He wasn't exactly one to speak of how beautiful I was. (I'm not a classic beauty by any stretch of the imagination) But he gave me flowers, a Pooh bear, bought tampons for me.... He told me too, but little things really mean a lot to this girl. Well, one year I received a Valentine's card from him. It was one of those e-mailed cards that try as you might, you can't keep past 30 days. And music doesn't print out.

The background music (in MIDI code, so yes, this was a bit ago) was "Wonderful Tonight". When I did look at it the first time, I did cry.

But can you blame me?