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Well.... yesterday was pretty much an all-around crappy day. Waking the news from Las Vegas and the finding out about Tom Petty.
There is much I want to say about Tom Petty - some of which I have heard other people say better than I could.
As a writer, music has always inspired me. First writing fiction, a line from a song would trigger a story. I remember once, being stuck on a short story I was writing, and then going to see some songwriters play and getting lost in their music and suddenly the story coming together in my mind - no so much a direct reaction to a song or a line, but just some cosmic inspiration reaching out of the melody and telling me how the story needed to go.
"Free Fallin'" I can't say that it is my favorite Tom Petty song - but I do confess to loving it - but back around the turn of this century, I was in the midst of writing 365 short, short stories based upon secondary (and incidental) characters from my novel, The Drift (I ended up writing 388 stories) and a whole series of these stories was inspired by "Free Fallin'" - "All the vampires walkin' through the valley/ Move west down Ventura Blvd./ And all the bad boys are standing in the shadows/ All the good girls are home with broken hearts"
Music is important to me. And yesterday was a hard day, but music will ultimately heal. I find myself saying this quite often, but it is what I believe to be the truth.
It would have been easy to just stay in last night, but I chose to go out and listen to people make music. It was just what I needed. Thanks to Brian Milligram, John Dennis, Jason Erie, and Josh Gray for being what I needed. There was not much to smile about yesterday but hearing Josh Gray singing The Dead Milkmen's song, "Punk Rock Girl" (for the second time) made me smile.
So, I'm moving on... with some Trending Tuesday music for this third day of October 2017
