Creator’s observe: Apologies to anybody who occurred to have observed that my column didn’t exit final week. I used to be on task for an additional journal. That is the eighth Barely Related.
Nicely, the Seattle Seahawks misplaced to the New York Soccer Giants in heroically horrible style final weekend, and I’ve been listening to quite a lot of Eighties nation music since. I’m unsure these two issues are associated. I’m unsure Eighties nation is any good, nevertheless it’s catchy. I didn’t notice that I’d been listening to a lot of it till I caught my kids singing alongside to Ronnie Milsap’s “Smoky Mountain Rain” in my backseat the opposite day.
“How do you guys know the lyrics to this?” I requested, shocked and barely appalled within the rearview mirror.
“Since you’ve been taking part in it each day,” My seven-year-old replied. Apparently, my three-year-old even requested my spouse to deliver up what smoky mountain rain seemed like on her telephone a couple of nights in the past at bedtime. He simply needed to see it. What, why?! My weirded-out spouse requested her toddler.
Nicely, there you go. One other instance of time passing – lives having lived. I typically wish to veer out of my common musical consolation zones. Positive, David Bowie, Al Inexperienced, Tv, and The Beatles are all manner higher than Ronnie Milsap. However my kids received’t develop up nostalgic for any of that stuff as a result of I already performed all of it out in my twenties, manner earlier than I had youngsters. What number of instances can you actually hearken to Lou Reed or Jackson Browne?
Possibly I’m doing a service to my youngsters. Maybe after they’re away at school, they’ll uncover The Beatles for the primary time, and their minds will probably be blown. Holy shit, dad, why had been you at all times listening to Kenny Loggins once we had been youngsters?
Actually, Ronnie Milsap ripped off an outdated Elvis track known as “Kentucky Rain” with “Smoky Mountain Rain” (although Elvis didn’t write it). They’re each about guys hitch-hiking throughout the nation within the rain – on the lookout for misplaced girls. Each songs finish with the protagonists operating round – one with the rain in his shoe and the opposite yelling into the fog.
I’ve been a giant Elvis fan my complete life, so I’ve listened to “Kentucky Rain” manner too many instances. That’s why my kids are compelled to hearken to “Smoky Mountain Rain.” Which, low-cost copy that it’s, continues to be fairly good.
I’ve additionally been listening to Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence,” Hey darkness, my outdated good friend…. “Dad! All of those songs are so unhappy,” my irritated seven-year-old identified.
Oh yeah, the Seahawks. It’s been a tough two-game skid for the boys in blue, and sadly, it’s affected my musical tastes. There’s one thing so acquainted in regards to the Seahawks taking part in poorly that even when the slightest suggestion that we’d suck raises its silver helmet, I get nostalgic.
Come on, outdated Seattle sports activities followers, are you aware what I imply? It’s October on the market – don’t count on to see the Mariners taking part in any video games. And the solar? You’re not going to see that till June. Swimming in Lake Washington is finito. It’s time to place away your flip-flops and pull out your Blundstones, toss your flannels, and mud off your Patagonia… it’s mainly going to be December for the following eight months.
And the Seahawks? Wait, maintain on, no. Sorry, I used to be getting carried away there. The Seahawks are good. We now not put on these silver helmets (besides in an ironical throwback sense), and we’re at the moment main our dreadful division.
I feel it’s straightforward to neglect we had been undefeated solely two weeks in the past. The Lions sport wasn’t so dangerous; our offense even bought props from nationwide pundits for that one. It’s simply that rattling Giants sport. However each nice Seahawks season has had horrible video games. Bear in mind Jacson Bevens’s Poop Egg? Yeah, we went 10-5-1 that season (2016) and received the division.
So, I’m gonna flip the Ronnie Milsap off and put Elvis again on as a result of it’s straightforward for outdated Seahawks followers to get Suspicious Minds. Sadly, for any followers that trauma bonded between 1976 and 2013, it’s in our rain-soaked veins.
Please take into account I’m writing all of this earlier than Thursday Night time Soccer. If we lose to the 49ers, you would possibly discover me in Heartbreak Resort. Or, worse… it’ll be the bar from “Pals in Low Locations” or one thing.
However we’re not going to lose. I’m calling my shot proper right here – The Seahawks will probably be victorious over the 49ers. Mike Macdonald was introduced in to beat Kyle Shanahan, and I bought a hunch he’s been game-planning for this one for lots longer than three days (which truly might have performed an element within the Giants sport).
Hey, did you hear that Russell Wilson has a brand new catchphrase?
