Saturday, October 3, 2009

Some Crummey Thoughts

I am a radio talk show host based in Los Angeles.

The trick for me, these days is to keep it fresh when I go to work. I've done this job so many times that this has become the real challenge. Another thing I notice while working is the pop culture shift. I work with two guys who were born in 1982! I mean, how much do I really care that Khloe Kardashian's just gotten married to some guy who shoots hoops for the Lakers?

Actually, I accept that as part of "the challenge" and so its kinda fun posing- knowing that 20, 30, or even 40 years ago all this stuff was vitally important to people like us & we couldn't imagine it any other way.

For some reason lately I happened 2b thinking about the Stray Cats and that song "Sexy & Seventeen" which I remember playing @ WAPP in NYC back in the days when I was a D.J. I checked out the video on YouTube and I thought it was so funny-

"Cuz she's sexy & seventeen,
My little rock & roll queen...
Acts a little bit obscene…"

Back in the 80's it seemed so right on- now it feels like I'm Roman Polanski lusting after some high school kid!

And speaking of, "seventeen"... I was out on Catalina island one weekend last summer with my family. We were walking by that circular movie theatre & cultural center that William Wrigley built a number of years ago.

As we got closer, I heard the sounds of a band tuning up. As soon as I heard the bass line I knew they were about to play "I Saw Her Standing There."

So I hurried up a bit and came up on a thatched-roof/outside-bar type place. It was only mid-afternoon but it was already a boozy scene and out back they were dancing as the band played.

There was this 50ish chick with a drink in her hand, and I remember the look on her face and the way she moved, there were younger couples, too, there were professional drunks, day trippers, locals, and even my kid was into it.

"Well, we danced through the night
And we held each other tight
And before too long I fell in love with her…”

Maybe its because I shared it with my son, and maybe its because of the way the music swept away the years between those of us who were there, but it still gives me tingles when I think about it.

You know, it would have been an interesting experiment if someone that afternoon had sprayed a servicable type of aerosol dye into the air. Would this theoretical coloring of the ether reveal the shape of some kind of vibrating energy field radiating outward from the dance floor and up into the sky?

I would like to think so, thereby confirming a living aura that’s always there, albeit too subtle for us to detect on ordinary days, but a constant halo nonetheless. It would ride on an Einstein plane of quantum stealth, inexorably tying us to the righteous spirit that underpins our existence, the universal joy of being, and the emotions tapped by a 40 yr-old Beatles song.

I know it's way obvious I'm going a little deep, and I admit I'm assigning an awful lot of mojo to one sunny day on the island of Catalina, various distilled spirits & a bunch of slightly older dudes bustin’ out "I Saw Her Standing There," but as I said, at this point in time, it does make me wonder.

2 comments:

ddt4free said...

Makes me wonder 2. like what were you smokin' dude? :) PS x-LA liznr (90's) wnts Crummey radio in Idaho. (gosh, that even rhymes) (what am I smokin?)

Joe Crummey said...

what m I smokin'? ha ha