Did you ever think about how much music/songs can point to the obsolescence of an idea or a way of life?  My mobile phone appears to be on its last legs, and it reminded me of the episode of Bugs Bunny - 'Little Red Riding Rabbit', where the girl is singing 'The Five O'Clock Whistle'.  Where does a whistle blow at the end of the day anymore?  Fred Flinstone, the Jetsons - those cartoons had a quitting time whistle, but that seems to have gone by the wayside.  Quitting time whistles are so twentieth century!  It's my Video Killed the Radio Star moment.  Try explaining waiting for a radio show like Orson Welles "The Shadow' (with its music that sounds as if it came from a merry go round) to someone today.  While I'm listening, I think I'll download this show to my mp3 player.

Music is connected to everything I do.  Hardly a day goes by that I don't think of a song to mark some event, or one that reminds me of an event, and sometimes it pops up in the strangest places.  One day recently I was talking to a job developer to coordinate his attendance at a hiring event.  He'd left me a voice mail message with only his first name, so when I returned his call I had to ask him for his last name and all of his contact information.  He said his last name was 'Évora', and when I heard that, I said to him (without even thinking) "Oh; there's a singer with that last name".  He said "yes; Cesária Évora" (here singing 'Petit Pays').  I shouldn't have been shocked, but I'd just interjected a musical reference into a completely unrelated conversation.  Logically I shouldn't have made any connection, but there it was.  It turned out he wasn't Cape Verdean, but several people had also approached him about his famous (at least in some circles) name, and in the process of discussing it, I found a fellow music and foreign movie lover.


And that's been my pattern - always making a connection with music when it seems no other connection could possibly exist.  It finally occurred to me - maybe music is unavoidable for me.  I find it, or it finds me, no matter what I do or where I go.  So I decided that maybe I should seek it out more, make a conscious effort to interject music into my life as much as possible.  Music excites me, evokes passionate feelings in me about any number of subjects, and allows me to feel life like nothing else does.So I've decided to start writing about music.  Or maybe, I've decided to start writing about life, and music is the soundtrack, the theme music.  We'll just have to wait and see...