[FoRK] Open Arms

[Dave Long]

> Did you not have proper music in America then? :P

Set and setting, man.  There is music that one appreciates because  
it's good, and then there's music that one appreciates because of the  
good times one had when it happened to be playing.  The french have a  
word for songs like "Open Arms" -- un slow -- and, as such, it falls  
squarely into the latter category.  Now, unlike Jeff and Russell, I  
myself didn't have a license in the early 80's, and was in fact many  
years[0] away from even a permit, but at least I was at an age[1]  
where slow dances generally meant that I wound up with breasts[2] in  
my face, so not only won't I apologize for having a certain  
sentimentality for Journey, but Mr. Perry even gets my thanks, for  
the mammaries.

-Dave

[0] ok, "many" doesn't seem like very many at all now, but it  
certainly did then!
[1] and, apropos the skipping thread, even treated to an extended run  
of these circumstances.
[2] such as they were -- but recall also what [0] has to say about  
the subjective nature of experience.