Tiny Tuesday!

A few days ago, I unrolled the posters that have remained with me through the years. Goodness knows how many I didn’t keep, but I still have a few I may blog about now and then.

Among them, I found this mini poster of Jon Bon Jovi. It’s perforated, so I tore it out of something, but I think it’s too big to have been in a magazine or album. Regardless, he was a beautiful man then and remains a beautiful man today.

I never saw Bon Jovi live, but I remember one time Tom and I were going somewhere with Lynne and Craig. They had a big van, and I’d always sit all the way in the back like I was part of a band or something and needed solitude to create. This is because when I’m traveling, I’m almost always writing something in my head, whether it’s a scene for fiction, a poem, or a song. Even a single verse in a lyric can keep me occupied for a while.

On this little journey of perhaps an hour or so, I feel like I heard “Wanted Dead or Alive” more than once. Maybe I was listening through my old Walkman or something. It was not a new song then, because it came out in ’86 and this would have been ’89 or later, after we moved to Texas.

I always love songs by artists about being on the road, because they feed into the sensibility of the characters I write. (In fact, I’m almost finished with the third book in the Neverending Saga, and the next book will begin with The Musician on a mini tour.)

Out of the albums I was able to save after Harvey flooded us, I have these.

While writing this post, I listened to the song on You Tube, and one of the comments left there made me laugh:

Dr: You have 3 mins left to live
Me: Play Bon Jovi – Wanted Dead or Alive (Official Music Video)
Dr: But that’s 4 mins and 9 seconds
God: I’ll allow