| August 15th, 2005
 t long last,
I've located my
Battlegrounds disc. It was missing. It was gone for
months. I couldn't find it for the life of me. I was a little
miffed. It was mindless, first-person-shooter entertainment with a
Star Wars skin. Phaser rifles, commando pistols, and jet-packs once
again grace my desktop computer arsenal. Even better -- I've got a
faster video card that can handle anything SWB throws at it. Good
times, I say.
Once again, I trounced an hour or
so through my local general merchandise shop (which I will not
mention by name, as I do not get royalties and their employees have
the collective intelligence of an elephant's nutsack) for CDs or
DVDs I might have an interest in. I came away with two things.
First,
Joe Cocker,
probably best known for his version of "With A Little Help From My
Friends," the cut of music played during the opening home movie
scenes in "The
Wonder Years."
A guy I used to work with had
an old-school stereo (it still had "hi-fi" and "phono" settings on
it with big silver knobs and an analog station tuner) lazily filling
the edit shop with various old-school tunes. Of them, I would
occasionally poke my head out of whatever bay I was working in and
ask, "Hey! I like this tune. Who is this?" I learned a lot about
Stevie Wonder and
Orlando Cachaito Lopez.
One of the tunes in the stereo's
newer five-disc CD changer was Joe Cocker's "Feelin' Alright." Joe Cocker had a hand in a number of songs I'd
heard, but didn't know the names of. One, of course, being the theme
to "The Wonder Years."
Speaking of The Wonder Years,
remember Winnie Cooper?
Rarw, baby!
Of the tracks on the CD, and
aside from Feelin' Alright, I've come to appreciate the live
performances of "Cry Me A River" and
"Letter."
Second, and the original item for
my trip to the merchandiser is the first and second season boxed DVD
set of
Titus. I loved the show when it was on. It was cancelled too
damn early. Nothing says comedy like the last fifteen seconds of
Episode 2: "Sex With Pudding."
Dave inadvertently sets a
wastepaper basket on fire!
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