Heartbreaker:

As I recall the one doing the most messing with Lee was Pat.

Me: You're not gonna start any more fights here, are you?

Her: (That Look)

Me: Well, don't forget I'm here.

(She didn't)

Never Wanna Leave You:

First of all, I don't think it would be possible to top this song in my book*. It was an exhilirating and challenging time in my life with my wife (who bought the album originally and gave it to me when she realinzed her husbands name was on it - but that's a different woman altogether) being pregnant with our first child and other promising horizons looming ahead. The combination of art and life represented by this song almost made me forget what a fine album she (they - sure, you guys) put out. The tape barely made it out of 1981 it was a constant fixture in the front seat of my car with me rocking to work to begin another day of changing the world one bit (hex: byte) at a time.

But speaking of seats, let's get back to the back seat:

Covering that weekend in music or words would hardly do it any justice. Language is inadequate at best to convey more than a passing impression and misleading at worst. I will let her song stand unchallenged as to what may or may not be represented by this particular convergence of space (me) and time (her).

Now that I got that out of the way let me contradict myself:

She is always right the way Jodie Foster has always left, and as I always used to say back then: never is a very long time. I don't want to get too emotional - but what the hell, it is Pat! Rather than focusing on the humans there I will always remember her as that last piece of gltter being swept from my hand by the warm breeze, not lost as it would continue it's journey unchanged in beauty or significance but simply be the same symbol for some other being (or person - probably an ant uses it to adorn the nest) without having lost anything by my fleeting memories but simply accumulating new meaning for some other place and time.

Stay Cool, Pat!

 * Bonnie's song is clearly the best song of the nineties - by anyone, in any category but this is more of a personal web page than a music critique.