There’s an old superstitious belief that bad things come in threes. If I were superstitious, my belief would surely be tested this week. It seems I have offended the gods of marriage, friendship, love and finances multiple times while simultaneously spitting on Lady Luck. A bushel of badness so far and it’s only Thursday. Though, I suppose I was due for a bad spell. The last three or four years have been relatively free of Very Bad Things.
To escape reality, I have taken refuge in movies and music. Were I twenty years younger and back in the USA, I would have looked for something more organic, but that’s not such a good idea these days. I saw Sweeney Todd on Sunday and again on Monday. That made me feel much better. There’s nothing like a vengeance-deranged lunatic to make you realize that your situation isn’t as bad as it could be. The rest of the time my iPod has been my constant companion.
I picked up some new CDs Monday night and have been listening to them. I like The Offspring, so I grabbed a greatest hits compilation. Though I’m not a big fan of metal, I do enjoy Dream Theater so I picked up a limited edition (Korea only) of one of their albums. I’m also nostalgic for the 80s and early 90s, which prompted me to grab some compilations from Phil Collins and Michael Learns to Rock. The album that’s getting the most play time though is a double-disc Def Leppard ‘Best of’ compilation.
I was into Def Leppard back in middle and high school. Since I’ve been in Korea, I haven’t kept up with them very much. I bought Slang in the late 90s, but had no idea what else they were doing. So there are several songs in this collection that I hadn’t heard. One of them is now firmly implanted in my head since it is so lyrically relevant to one of those bad things this week. Talk about timing.
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