RO: I've been in six states in the last week - tearing around from one bookstore to another - and I couldn't have done it without Aretha Franklin, Randy Newman, Dire Straits, Candide, John Barry and the rest of the cds in an old bookmark box that I keep on the passenger seat of the Jeep. And there are more to come..next week Ohio, Virginia and Pennsylvania for RT Convention, Malice Domestic and Festival of Mystery.
With all the talking I do at events you'd think that I'd want to be quiet when I'm alone.
With all the talking I do at events you'd think that I'd want to be quiet when I'm alone.
Nope. Singing at the top of my lungs while going 75 miles an hour is a beautiful thing. Perhaps not for a listener, but hey the jerk in the Camry can't hear me, nor can the trucker.
Old rock and roll, show tunes, standards - hell, I was singing along with The Mills Brothers this morning. Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters. What part of the brain houses these lyrics? (And what more important thing has it displaced?) I didn't even know that I knew the words to You Always Hurt the One you Love until I sang it two hours ago.
What's lodged in your brain that you're embarrassed to admit? Theme song to the Flintstones? Old tv commercials?
HALLIE: Lately, the Dixie Chicks have taken up residence. 
Maybe it's the mystery writer in me--it's surely the country and western twang fan in me--but I can do all the lyrics of Goodbye Earl.
Maybe it's the mystery writer in me--it's surely the country and western twang fan in me--but I can do all the lyrics of Goodbye Earl. It's a song about a woman and her friend who kill her abusive spouse. (Earl, ain't it dark? Wrapped up in that tarp?)
Love anything by Dolly Parton, or Brenda Lee, or Patsy Cline...especially Patsy. I think there's a theme here.
Ro: Earl, aint it dark? Yikes.
I wouldn't mind if it was Patsy Cline - it's when something like The Monster Mash or the theme song to Green Acres "Fresh air! Times Sqvare! You are my wife - goodbye city life!" decides to lodge itself in my brain. 
Aaahh, perhaps if there wasn't so much empty space there.
Here...let it get stuck in YOUR head for a while.
