Tonight’s installment in the oldest daughter’s musical education: Van Halen, Run DMC, Sly and Family Stone, and Prince. And I must be doing something right because she used her money to buy her own copy of Back in Black. Must be dusty in here.
Tag: Dusty in Here
For the Queen
Me, flipping through radio stations in the car.
My Oldest, age 13: “blah blah My Chemical Romance blah blah Fall Out Boy blah blah… Wait! What was THAT?”
Me, flipping back a station: “This? Oh, this is Queen. Bohemian Rhapsody.”
Oldest: “It’s… so… different.”
Me: “Yep. They mixed heavy metal and opera, back when everyone else was into Disco. Total visionaries. Totally rocked.”
Oldest: “That is so awesome. I need to tell my friends! I need this on my iPod.”
Me: (tears in eyes) “Yes. Yes, you do.”
Boring
Little Miss Thing, age 5: “Did you read the comics in the paper?”
Danger Monkey, age 8: “Yeah… They were boring.”
LMT: “Why?”
DM: “They didn’t have Calvin and Hobbes.”
Me: (tears welling up)
Very Vocal Viking 