— 2 flashbacks, courtesy of YouTube —

If YouTube existed back in the 70’s I would have come screaming out of the closet in 4th grade in my hard shoes and school blazer after watching this video of Tom Jones performing ‘I Who Have Nothing’. The hip movement at 1:25 is classic and the punching fists timed with the percussion are just—I don’t know…Perfect?

I’d bet half the straight men in the audience that night wanted to screw him.

This, I declare, is entertainment.

My 1960’s suburban parents would have freaked if they saw Joe Cocker and gang coming down the street. They lived in terror of public schools, fearing we’d be recruited by guys like this. That’s probably why we got locked up in Catholic school for so many years.

This is one of the greatest live songs of all time, and it’s brilliant that somebody posted in on YouTube:
Joe Cocker - The Letter (live) »

A declaration for DDS: this is the first in what is intended to be a rigorous schedule of weekly Wednesday postings of banalities and musings. Friday’s weekly posting will address ‘The Novelist’s Due’.