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A math guy's random thoughts. |
Everyday, it's gettin' closer Goin' faster than a roller coaster. So starts the 1957 BuddHolly song "Everyday." It was the B side of his much better-known hit "Peggy Sue," but it's the one that I like much better of the two. The song reached number three on the BIllboard Top 100 chart in 1957, then hit number three again in 1987 when James Taylor covered it, this time on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart. Other artists to cover this include John Denver and Pearl Jam. I used this song in "Chapter 5--Everyday"  of the novella "Dreamin' Life Away" . Part of the plot of the novella is that Dante, the protagonist, is taken on tour of 1950s Tutlsa, sort of like another Dante's famous tour of...a similar place. Dante's rather bemused, possibly from taking drugs, and goes along with the tour without much thought or resistance. But he does have the feeling that every day his life is going nowhere, faster than a roller coaster--at least, that's what he thinks when he hears the song playing on the radio in his guide's Edsel. There's a lot more I could say about this song or about the mulitple references I had fun putting into this story, but I've already blogged about the song elsehwere. As to the references, well, looking for Easter Eggs can be fun, so why give it away? (Looking at you, T.S. Eliot.) Anyway, this particular blog is just about how the song connects to a story I've written. Here's a link to the song. |
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