Song of the Day

I know, he's a freak, and he's got some stuff to answer for in the hereafter, but folks, sometimes, you just gotta put some Michael in.... So many masterpieces. Rating them would be an abomination... So why "Human Nature" Soapy..? Well, this song is, for me, one of those time warp nuggets, or time portals. A time warp nugget or time portal is anything like a song, a smell, or even a taste that takes you back to a specific point and time. Sometimes they aren't the best times, such as breakups, but time has a funny way of patching up the wounds and turning scars in to treasured memories...

You're probably wondering what magic moment this takes me back to... It takes me back to 1995, to a white Mitsubishi Eclipse, late at night behind my dorm. I was at a club earlier that night (or that week) and I saw this girl in a bikini contest. She won. I later found out that her name was Tiffany, and somehow, by some bizarre miracle, who knows, maybe the moon was making some funky things happen, but however it did happen, this little winner of the bikini contest (her's was white and yes, she wholeheartedly deserved to win), who I met later that night, had a thing for old Soapbox... Yep, she wanted my gear...

We ended up hanging out that night, or maybe a few nights after that. I have no idea what the activity was, but we somehow ended up in her car outside my dorm making out to the wee hours of the morning... Nothing naughty mind you. Not that she wasn't willing, but I was pretty inexperienced beyond the basic makeout.

Not sure the we clicked on an intellectual or spiritual level, but she was smoking hot and very into me. I remember going through her CD's looking for some tender music to put on, and the only one I could find that was remotely appropriate was Michael Jackson's Thriller album (on a side note, it's very cool that she would have that). And, being a Michael Jackson affictionado, I went right to Human Nature and probably hit replay on it 20 or 30 times that night....

It was just one of those fun, innocent times that we all have (at least I hope we all do) where the stars align and we have that one perfect night with another person (coupled of course with the fact that I, by some miracle, scored the winner of a bikini contest at a club who was light years out of my league)

So you can listen to it however you want, but as for me, I'm going to lower the lights, kick my seat back, close my eyes, and let classic transport me to that happy place in 1995..........



In case you're wondering, I never saw Tiffany again after that night. We parted ways amicably. I was heading in a direction that she didn't want to go, and she was going in a direction that I couldn't go. In talking about it to my awestruck buddies the next day, I later found out that her dad was the coach at their high school, and armed with this knowledge, I probably could have hunted her down, but I think I'll just let this perfect moment live in the untouchable past.....