We all know that hearing a familiar song can bring back very vivid memories. It can happen at weird times and out of the blue. Which blows my mind as to how our mind stores information (that’s mind-blowing-ly profound).
I’m sitting here reading email when ‘Goodnight Saigon’ by Billy Joel randomly pops up on my iTunes. Instantly and vividly I’m brought back to a cram-session I had studying Grade 13 Calculus in my parent’s living room just a couple of hrs before the exam. I even remember what in particular I was studying: A proof for Pythagoras theorem.
That is how the mind works. I can’t remember to call my mechanic (thanks for reminding me Billy!) on a given day or whether I’m supposed to pick up my daughter later today but I can remember this polaroid instance 18 yrs ago.
Which throws me off on a tangent: A couple days ago driving home from Detroit after a trip to Vegas (more to come on that) I was on a certain section of I-94 when I remembered what I was thinking about on this same stretch of road 3 yrs ago when I last there (coming home from an earlier trip to Vegas). It also has to do with music. I was listening to Meat Loaf’s “Back Into Hell” sequel album to “Bat Out of Hell” when I started spewing out ideas out loud to poor Sonia about how I could string all these Meat Loaf songs into a musical. We had just seen a show in Vegas called “We Will Rock You” that had a pretty dodgey plot strung together by dental floss in order to lay down all the Queen mega-hits and make some cool cash along the way. Had also seen Mamma Mia a few weeks earlier so I was drenched in camp.
So I thought aloud: this has got to be easy money. Everyone loves Meat Loaf (both singer and food) and his tunes are made for this sort of thing. I don’t want to give out too much but here’s the gist of the plot I had spun: It has to do with a teenage boy and girl struggling through a heated yet difficult teenage romance. They move apart as they finish school only to meet up years later (in their 30’s) after living their separate divergent lives: one has made it big, one has fallen on hard times. They may or may not rekindle that fire. Lots of dancing, lights, screaming power chords, etc. and BAM! insta-hit!
If anybody has Meat Loaf’s email please pass it along or have him get in touch with me. We’ll do lunch and plan out our mega-smash broadway show. I guarantee it would blow Mamma Mia out of the water.