
Friday Nites before Friday Nite Lights
Dear Gabriel –
Not that you’re too concerned, but here’s a little note about how Mom and I occupied ourselves on Friday while you were away at your Senior Football Retreat with your Coaches and teammates.
After a great dinner at The Royale Magnificent Burger (and they were good)…
…we lapsed into one of those “lets look at some 80’s music videos” as you’ve noticed us doing every 4 – 5 years. We’re looking forward to supporting you under the Friday Nite Lights of your Senior year and your goal of being on Gameday™ will determine what we’ll be doing on Saturdays, but last night we looked back at KROQ, The Florentine Gardens and how we spent some of our Fridays before you and Marissa came along.
If you’re ever interested in some of those tunes, here’s the “playlist” we viewed:
- Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
- Beat It by Michael Jackson
- Eat It by Weird Al Yankovic
- Somebody’s Watching Me by Rockwell
- Footloose by Kenny Loggins
- Thriller by Michael Jackson
- Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper
- Take On Me by A-Ha
- With or Without You by U2
- I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For by U2
- Where The Streets have No Name by U2 (we actually worked 4 blocks to the north of where they filmed this video)
- Vertigo by U2
- Rio by Duran Duran (Anticipating hearing a lot of this in a week or 2 with the Olympics)
- Africa by Toto (the Keyboardist was in our worship band at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Westside)
- We Built This City by Starship
- Every Breath You Take by The Police
- Every Little Thing She Did Was Magic by The Police
- Wrapped Around Your Finger by The Police
- Don’t You Forget About Me (Simple Minds)
- Say, Say, Say by Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson
- Smooth Criminal by Michael Jackson
- Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
- Here Comes The Rain Again by Eurythmics
- Hungry Like The Wolf by Duran Duran
- I Ran by A Flock of Seagulls
- This Is Not America by David Bowie and Pat Metheny
- I Want A New Drug by Huey Lewis and The News
- The Heart Of Rock and Roll by Huey Lewis and The News
- You Got Lucky by Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers
- Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer (I think this is when Mom said could you believe we used to go out about about this time)
- I Love L.A. by Randy Newman
- Legs by ZZ Top
- Gimme All Your Lovin’ by ZZ Top
- Beds Are Burning by Midnight Oil
- Our House by Madness
- Come On Eileen by Dexy’s Midnight Runners
- and finally, Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen (which we finished with 5 mins to spare before Fallon came on).
There were so many more tunes we didn’t get to; perhaps in 4 more years prior to visiting you before your Senior season in college, or maybe at the Gym like I did this morning (Men At Work, Oingo Boingo, Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark and Talk Talk to name a few).
We love you and thanks for letting me share this memory with you!
Dad
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