Book Overview
The music, movies, and numerous other bits of popular culture mentioned in this book were never really about my life. Somehow, from time to time, they just fit it like a glove. Just as some of them may have done for you in your own lives. Or just as some completely different slices of the changing cultural scene—perhaps “Satin Doll” or another beautiful Duke Ellington tune voiced by the guitar of Joe Pass, or the outsider’s lament of Boy George singing the title song of the movie called The Crying Game—may have done for people of other generations than my own.
The point is this one of a kind book playfully explores specific moments in my life when either coincidence or chance delivered songs, movies, fads, and turns of history, that resonated strongly for me and for people around me. Those things were not about me, and I certainly did not cause them to happen. But they did happen, and they did form part of the sound track of my life, reflecting key moments in both my personal history and the much bigger world around all of us. I hope you will enjoy experiencing these meaningful echoes, and in that process, you will reflect on the many funny ways that the culture around us can mirror our own life and time.