"Up against a no win situation
Shoulder to shoulder, push and shove
I'm hanging up my boxin' gloves
I'm ready for a long vacation"
Hard to believe it's the year anniversary of kicking this blog off again. If you're still reading thank you and congrats, you made it through the year! Global pandemic, social uprising, elections, Meghan and Harry! It's been a lot to process in a little amount of time. Also if you've stumbled across this blog while searching for Cobra Kai season 4 spoilers, my apologies. When I named this blog in my room back in 2006 I could've imagined a hit Karate Kid TV show would be in existence a decade later. For the record I love the show and only wish I would've come up with the idea first!
Hoping everyone is healthy not only physically but also mentally. I realize it's been a challenging time for some feeling isolated and helpless. When I was a kid one of my favorite books was Rip Van Winkle. I was fascinated with the idea of someone falling asleep for 20 years and then waking up to see how the world changed around him. I've had some great memories over the past year but if i could've pulled a Rip Van Winkle and slept from 2020 to 2022 maybe that wouldn't have been so bad? Actually if I could pick a year I would've slept through sixth grade. What an awkward time of life!
I felt like this song would be a good reminder as we slowly start doing things that we've missed out on the past year. Hard to be in a bad mood if Journey is coming out of your speakers. One of my favorite parts of the live video is the trench coat wearing (which looks like he borrowed from Corey Haim's character's closet in The Lost Boys) keyboard player walking out to do a keyboard solo. Is it a keytar solo or a walking keyboard solo? Either way it's amazing and you don't see shit like that no mo! Also had to give a shoutout for this song being used in the 1987 Kevin Bacon classic, White Water Summer (not to be confused with Kevin Bacon's 1994's The River Wild) Enjoy the tune, be good to yourself, and thanks for reading.
...And if you're still a little down in the dumps as a bonus I've included the below video. I don't know this for sure but I hypothesize in lieu of cash Mick and David were paid in copious amounts of cocaine...just watch. Cheers!
