Must be Friday night

Well, what I should be doing tonight is trying to finish a column I do for a litzine ( WordCatalystMagazine.com ) every month, it's probably over half done but I feel over half done so it's not gonna happen tonight. Just watching bad television--so I decided to listen to some music and see what would come out here. Right now the music is Foo Fighters--back when I attempted Twitter, I would post a song of the day religiously. I have read how Twitter is addictive for a lot of folks--ummm--I'm not one of them, it just seems like you are supposed to be following the lives of the self-proclaimed famous people whose every minute of every day is supposed to be important to hundreds of thousands of readers---either that or like very bad chat rooms used to be---nope, no more, if someone wants to twitter me they can meet me on messenger-either yahoo or msn--don't really care--no cast of thousands--thank you very much-I can always, yes, always use a new friend but I don't need a gazillion. ok, enough ranting--hmmm, a song of the day, not a bad idea--sorely tempted to say "All My Life" by FF but no I am going to go with one a little further down on the playlist--"By My Side" from Godspell. I really love the soundtrack to that musical---the play and the movie--did I say I like the soundtrack?--on the other hand, my favorite musical is Superstar, of course with Ted Neeley as Jesus and the late Carl Anderson, the all time best Judas--in the movie, they both played the roles--I have seen the musical with Ted and Carl once and three other times after Carl passed away. I have talked with Ted twice, once in Chattanooga standing next to the cast bus, and once in Melbourne where for some reason, they took a dozen of so of us that had signed up to talk to him after the show--I guess they screened the folks that signed up for this--anyway they took us to a room, after a while he came in and proceeded to spend the next 2 1/2 hours visiting with us-instead of talking to us. He sincerely seemed as interested in us as we were in him, asking us as many questions as we did him. He genuinely seems to feel blessed to be playing the role, now for about 40 years-and he can still hit all of the high notes better than anyone I have ever seen-I told him whether they knew it or not, I believe Rice and Webber wrote the part and music for him--his tour manager kept coming in to get him--they were literally holding the bus for him, they were going to drive from Melbourne, Fl (halfway down east coast of Fl) to their next show in Cleveland, Ohio. Finally, after a few of us told him maybe he needed to go, he agreed. But he positioned himself at the door, and obviously was not going to leave until everyone else did. I was one of the first out and he talked to me in the door for at least fifteen minutes and then he gave me a big bear hug-like he did everyone else. Ted Neeley, a very special man who that night made everyone else in that room feel special. On second thought, make the song for tonight "Gethsemane" from Superstar, of course performed by Ted Neeley.