jessie's girl.

i was listening to my regular morning radio station last week and, like a gift from the gods, they had rick springfield on.  sigh.   (thank you, dean blundell)  touted as one of the greatest songs of all time, jessie's girl is undisputably mr. springfield's biggest hit and is the penultimate anthem of unrequited love.

legend has it that rick attended a stained glass class (an artsy rocker dude?  nice!) with his friend gary and gary's girlfriend.  poor rick had it bad for gary's girl and wrote the song.  of course, "gary" doesn't have the exact same ring as "jessie", and rick is probably glad he didn't use his friend's actual moniker.  apparently, oprah attempted to track down gary's girlfriend (rick has stated that he did not remember her name) but to no avail.  so, probably to this day, gary's girl doesn't even know that she was the inspiration behind the classic.  but then again, doesn't that just make the song better?

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after midnight.

unbeknownst to me, (probably because i live in a little bubble world filled with 'imagination movers' and 'dora the explorer' and my torch) blink-182 dropped their latest album 'neighborhoods' in september. their first release in, like, 8 years and i missed it.   i LOVE blink-182.  like, love love love them.  (yeah, i know - guitar-playing tattooed dudes.  whatever.)  of course when i figured it out (i started listening to the radio again on my commute because S and i love the dean blundell show on the Edge) i immediately downloaded it.  and so far, this one is my favorite.  love the melody - yup, it's formulaic blink but that's what makes it great - and as always, the lyrics appeal to the teenaged-angster within me.

thanks, boys.  you still have a fan in this middle aged groupie.  and the fact that you played this live in montreal rocks even more.

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