Max's Musings

Soundtrack, Feb 2, White Wedding

This isn't going to be the best song on this year's list. It's not even Billy Idol's best song--admittedly a low bar. But it did inspire another story of mine, "Alice's Tale" . This story is the second of a sequence of tales about a group of college-age stoners on their way to spring break in Fort Lauderdale. In my head, I'm thinking of this as the "Lauderdale Tales." This particular one is based on the Miller's Tale. Drop me a note if you want to read it and I'll send you the passkey.

Anyway, the story is about a snarky ballerina who stays at a B&B on old Route 66 where there happens also to be a "white wedding." The opening pretty much tells you what's coming

Once, if my memory serves me well, my life was a banquet where every heart revealed itself, where every wine flowed. Then my journey took me to a white wedding at the Route 66 B&B.

The first sentence is from Rimbaud, BTW. Anyway, it devolves into a kind of farce, appropriate given the source material. The phrase "white wedding" is, of course, supposed to invoke Idol's song, which is an ironic deconstruction of the whole idea of a "white wedding."