Friederich Said
Saturday’s Theme Music
Journey was well established when they came out with “Don’t Stop Believin'” in 1981. Many didn’t like this era of Journey, considering their album Escape was a commercial sell-out. “Don’t Stop Believin'” has made the pop-culture and political rounds, being featured in movies, television shows, presidential campaigns, and advertising.
I posted it here as the theme music almost one year ago. I didn’t mention then how Family Guy affects my memory of the song. For your enjoyment, I’ve included the Family Guy offering along with the real song.
Cheers
Floofgemony
Floofgemony (catfinition) – event or circumstances defined by cats having preponderant influence.
In use: “Filled with stories, images, and videos featuring cats and kittens, the Internet was slowly becoming a floofgemony.”
Empathy
You ever hear someone unloose a long, heavy sigh, and think, yep, I know exactly how you feel?
Yep.
Coffee
Tasting the coffee today, I raised my eyebrows in appreciation and admiration.
It was the second cup of the day. The first had been at home. I was now in the coffee shop.
But this coffee —
“Mmmm,” I said to myself, like I was Wolf the cleaner (Harvey Keitel) in Pulp Fiction, appreciating the coffee Jimmy (Tarentino) had given him.
I enjoyed the coffee sequences through that period at Jimmy’s house in that movie, because it was so damn real, a pause within the gritty to appreciate a flavor.
Pulp Fiction, Get Shorty, and Reservoir Dogs all need to be added to my dirty list, along with Serenity. How could I forget them? They’re mos def movies I stop to watch when I come across them.
Time to write like crazy, at least one more time.
Friday’s Theme Music
Get your motor runnin’.
Head out on the highway.
Lookin’ for adventure.
And whatever comes our way.
Some songs and performers are permanently linked in memory for me. The performers have other hits, but one song first comes to mind when I hear their name. Say Pink Floyd, and I think, “Money”. AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”. The Who, “Won’t Get Fooled Again”. Black Sabbath: “Paranoid”.
For Steppenwolf, it’s a ditty called “Born to be Wild”. I was enamored of Steppenwolf when I was thirteen. That would have been 1969. My friends weren’t as impressed. Mom knew I liked them, though. She showed me a newspaper article about John Kay’s escape from Russia. Then Easy Rider came out, featuring the song. Yes, I had a poster of Hopper and Fonda on their choppers on my wall.
“Born to be Wild”, from 1968.
