My GOODNESS. I was weak. I questioned, I pondered I even hooked up Lil’ Bear (name of my iPod) to iTunes because I wanted to listen to Jesus Christ Superstar while roasting a chicken and doing dishes and drinking wine.But since the day Lil’ Bear came into my life, it has ONLY held RON HAWKINS MUSIC. All Ron. All the time. Ron Hawkins and the Lowest of the Low. Ron Hawkins and The Rusty Nails. Ron Hawkins Solo Work. Ron Hawkins and the Lowest of the Low (2.0) and even more Ron Hawkins Solo. I have it all…in one wee little piece of shiny red joy.
Of course, on the other hand…there’s Jesus Christ Superstar. On one of those decompressing from Gala days off of work last week I rediscovered the pure bliss of destressing to JCS. In college this soundtrack was on constant rotation. When I was writing my senior comp (thesis for you non-Allegheny peeps) I actually included the JCS soundtrack in my acknowledgments. Ah, remember those days?
(Longingly remembering those days…)
Back to reality.
So much to my surprise, when I found an old friend from High School had this listed as his Facebook Status!
Jeffrey is listening to Jesus Christ Superstar while splitting cells
WHOA!!! Really? At the same time I wrote this?
Loudly listening and singing along to my favorite musical of all time Jesus Christ Superstar. “My mind is clearer now…”
Oh yeah. Fredonia students appreciated Mr. Straight’s 6th grade music class. And some of us appreciated Timmy’s tight leather Judas pants shaking his thing during the finale of “Superstar.” Mmmm those High School crushes on older talented singing boys…Back to reality.
I realized my love of the Son of God musical by Andrew Lloyd Weber did not just end with me and all the people I subjected my constant listening of this soundtrack to in college. Of course I had to start a Facebook Group to celebrate and share the love.
Jesus Christ (Superstar) Gets Me Through The Long, Long Days
Ultimately? The battle of the soul of my Lil’ Bear iPod between The Son of God vs. The God of my Idolatry was won by Ron. The fact I’m a lazy sentimental played a significant role. I’m gonna need to get myself another iPod shuffle one of these days, because Ron is never going off of Lil’ Bear.
By the way, I’m loving my title of this post. I crack me up.
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