I can’t take credit for the title. It comes by way of Autopsy IV over at 9b, who got it from songs:illinois. It still fits so I am using it.
I’ve been hittin’ the bar a little hard lately. You see I get out of work at midnight. My kids have been asleep for four hours and wife for two. I could come straight home and hang out with Harley (the new dog who’s not Spot but is pretty OK for a dog that’s not) or I can hit the bar for Power Hour(tm) and have a few. I have been choosing option two a bit too frequently. It’s a bad thing to go drinking when you are broke and worse when your barkeep lets you run a tab and forgets to make you pay for over half of what you order. All in all it’s not the best scene.
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I remember the first time my wife kissed me. She placed her lips on my chest right next to my tattoo. It was outside, in a driveway off of Westheimer, and we were saying goodbye. It was the day before she told me she couldn’t talk to me anymore. I can still feel her lips brushing my skin when I think about that morning. We had been up all night just hanging out. The not talking didn’t last as you can tell.
I have lots of little memories like this. Some are not appropriate to talk about here and some are fun to remember and share.
To this day I wonder if she had the slightest clue what she was getting into. I doubt it. But we have made it through all the hard times and will make it through any more to come. I haven’t changed all that much. I am still me. I still go out and raise hell just with less frequency.
Sitting here with my gastronomic distress that led to me staying home from church and listening to Lucero brought this all to mind. Anyway here’s the song that got me thinking. Enjoy. I will stop rambling now.
So I am listening to Don Williams right now. If you don’t know him them you should listen to the songs I have posted below.
Don Williams - Good Ole Boys Like Me
Don Williams - I Believe In You
Don Williams - Lord I Hope This Day Is Good
So I was listening to the first track there. Good Ole Boys Like Me and the line “When I was kid Uncle Remus would put me to bed” opens the song. I realized just how luck my kids are since I have found a copy of the supposedly horrible Disney movie Song Of The South. Disney has no plans for ever releasing this movie again. They have been beaten into shame by those who would call anything from the civil war era “racist”. My kids have seen this wonderful film and will see it again. It is one of the few things I have made sure is transfered from computer to computer and hard drive to hard drive. It is such a wonderful film. The stories are moral lessons that still apply in this day and age. Uncle Remus was one of my favorite characters growing up and taught me a lot about life. I mourn the fact that many children will never ever see this film thanks to the idiots who would keep this film in the vault forever. May they all rot in hell.
Although my anger is not misplaced there seems to be a chance this may actually see the light of day! Cross your fingers.
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