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I started this entry on my flight home from Utah. Rather than keep these rambling thoughts in the purgatory that is my Drafts folder, I’ll just dump them here. What’s the opposite of being all over the place? No place at all? That’s what this is. Here you go, live from two Sundays ago.
If you’re reading this near the Wyoming-South Dakota border, I’m 37,000 feet above your head. My left foot is tapping furiously to Rick Allen’s contagious and odds-defying drumbeat from Def Leppard’s “Let’s Get Rocked.” This is one of 1,600 songs made available to me through Delta’s in-flight entertainment system.*
This foot tapping was not a problem until the in-flight beverage service placed a Coke precariously close to my trusty Apple iBook.** I’m very worried about a spill and the subsequent stickiness.
Let me pause to pound my soda.
This rendition of “Let’s Get Rocked” is from Rock of Ages, a Def Leppard anthology I didn’t know existed. My last Def Leppard CD was Adrenalize, off which “Let’s Get Rocked” was the first single. They played this song at A Concert for Life, the Freddie Mercury tribute – a strange choice for an AIDS benefit unless you think “rocked” means “educated on the finer points of HIV transmission.”
I know I possessed this album from 1992 to 1997, but don’t remember bringing it to college. Ten years is a long time to not own something, and so I’ve ascribed Adrenalize a possibly unwarranted sense of nostalgia.
[Finish up, then go into Utah stuff.]
*This might sound like paid product placement. I assure you it is not. I’d much rather be watching the Yankees-Red Sox game, but the satellite TV portion of the in-flight entertainment package is not working right now. But I must say Delta landed sky miles ahead of my expectations. Before last week, I did not know they were still in business, let alone streaming Def Leppard’s greatest hits.
**Another non-product placement.***
***Don’t let all this footnoting give you the wrong idea. Apple, if you want me to act as a compensated brand ambassador, just say the word. And send me your latest MacBook Pro.