A funny thing happened

Why is it that every time you rent a classic movie, like, say, “Rain Man” because it’s been 15 years since you last saw it, it’s on TV the same night? Alternatively, you talk about a movie with a friend, by chance, and then it’s on TV the next day?

Yesterday, I finished my Web & Tech pages for Scanorama, and one of the products featured was this nice little gadget. You know the style, the headlines are often puns or references to pop culture so I went through all kinds of versions of “blue” and “eye.”

And I found myself singing Elton John’s “Blue Eyes”. I remember the song well not because I own every single EJ album there is — whoops, EJ doesn’t seem appropriate with Sir Elton — because I don’t own any. The song is buried deep in my brain because it was the first song on one of the first CDs ever, a promo-CD put out by Philips, back in the mid-1980s. I heard it over and over hanging around (and then working) at my Dad’s appliance store.

“Here, sir, here’s a great JVC CD player, top of the line.”
“Is that the price?”
“Yes, it is, but … hold on, let me … just … play it for ya…”
“Is that the price?”
“Just wait, this is something you’ve never heard before…”

…BLUE EYEEEEES
Baby’s got blue eyes
Like a deep blue sea
On a blue blue day
Blue eyes
Baby’s got blue eyes
When the morning comes
I’ll be far away…
And I say

“What’s your final price?”

Anyway, I was humming “Blue Eyes” yesterday while writing the piece, and today, sitting at a cafe, reading a book, I found myself humming it again. Only, this time, there was music, too, and it came from the speakers above me.

Weird, isn’t it?

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