Slow dancing in the twilight at 6th grade graduation parties. Standing in the cafeteria line for breakfast during my freshman year in college. The Beatles. The Stones. Grace Slick in all her configurations. They each bring something to the party.
But yesterday I was flummoxed. I ran the conversation over and over in my head until they played a song I didn't like and I got out of the pool and enlisted TBG in solving the problem. He laughed, of course he knew what was what, and then he proceeded to stumble over it all just as I was. So, for your confusion/edification/delight, here's the problem:
Everybody's talkin' at me..... can't hear a word they're sayin'.... only the echoes of my mind......
That's what I heard when I came up for air.
I got as far as Ratso Rizzo, Dustin Hoffman, and Jon Voigt. But the name of the movie escaped me?
Rhinestone Cowboy? Certainly that fit with the naive young man's background and occupation.
Or was that the one with Robert Redford and Willie Nelson and Jane Fonda and the horse paraded in lights and rhinestones through the Vegas strip?
But it's in NYC, so maybe Urban Cowboy?
But there's the John Travolta movie where he rides the bucking bronco in the bar, and maybe that was it.
I was very confused. So was TBG. I resisted looking for the answer from the Google, but succumbed before frustration set in.
It's Midnight Cowboy, The Electric Horseman, and Urban Cowboy, in that order.
And Rhinestone Cowboy, the title that started the whole situation? It's just a song.
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