Link: Jeff Healey Dead at 41
ray
::04 mar 2008 :: 12:53am
I heard today that Jeff Healey died of cancer. He sang "Angel Eyes" which was my huge, huge torch song for this girl I dated in high school. In the tape deck on dates, at the prom, or on lonely drives through the winding back roads of Hangover County. It voiced that seemingly all-encompassing, blinding love you get in high school, that 'love-sickness.' In the end, we were a total trainwreck with enough chapters to fill a book. And not a 'happily ever after' kind of book. Think more along the lines of Bronte or a messed-up Henry James sort of way.
Still, there is always that song. For some reason it always takes me back to a moment where I believed I could hold the entirety of the world.
I was dumfounded to learn he was just seven years older than me. My heart goes out to his wife and children.
i can't imagine you involved in any kind of trainwreck…though I can imagine you driving through Old Church in the middle of the night. Somehow.
No? Really? Okay, apart from breaking up and getting back together about a half dozen times, and considering with about a year and a half of dating (cummulative) this is my only one-nighter ever: a barn, a death, cheating on my then-girlfriend by getting involved with her again during college, being co-workers when I dated other co-workers who confided in her, and while at her house her mom asks me to go see what's taking her so long walking the dog … when I find her in the backseat with a recently released drug dealer en flagrante delicto. Yay!
Train. Wreck. Especially considering the other missed opportunites and unnecessary 'kefuffle.'
As for Old Church, not so much. I was all west county, scarcely crossing 301. Did get by LD a couple of times, though.
Yeah, I figured Old Church was a stretch for you. But those are my hometown backroads, so I was projecting.
And jeez, I had no idea you had such wonderful drama. All the times you kicked back (non-)alcoholic drinks with me? And I didn't get to hear these stories?
I finally have some dirt on you, after only 9 years.