I love that song (here) ...
But this is different. I keep forgetting I'm getting old. I still think I'm in my 20's or early 30's. I keep thinking I really do look like Ben Hill, the model I use for my avatar. And I really do keep forgetting I don't. I got my hair cut yesterday and accused the stylist of making me look as if my hairline is receding and he made my face look fat. I said he was a vicious, vindictive ... person.
Earlier in the week, I took a friend in to the Dr. again and was chatting with the office people and I kept forgetting names of musicians and songs. We were talking about Alan Cummings being in town and a number he does in his act singing the same exact song sung by different artists: Katy Perry, Gaga, and Adele. (Naturally, I forget the name of the song.) So I chimed in how I noticed many pop songs - even standards, have similar melodies at times - in the medley lead up to the song or in the body of the piece. Then I went to give examples and couldn't recall the titles or the artists of the songs. In my frustration I called Pharrell Williams 'Pharaoh or something...' and then I couldn't recall Robin Thicke's name, or the Marvin Gaye song he ripped off. I kept saying, "Gotta give it up" but then said 'that's not it', although it really was ... Then, trying to recall Thicke's dad's name, citing him as an actor from a show way back when, I couldn't remember the name of the show, and mistook him for an actor on "Knot's Landing" but his show was really "Growing Pains" and, and ... Well, it was ghastly...
All the while, the office people just smiled and nodded their encouragement, their eyebrows lifted in anticipation for me to remember what I was even talking about and then, and then, another patient came in and the phones needed answering and "Oh my God, look at the time."
Well, it was ghastly.
Well, it was just ghastly.
