munkedukr
New Member
So, I've been thinking about this whole Morrissey thing and what it's meant to me recently. I'm going to the show at Ruth Eckerd Hall, which will be a momentous occasion for me - it's the first concert of any type I've been to in 10 years! I've never been the superfan people here are, but in my younger days I was totally obsessed with music in general. In high school and college it was the only thing that mattered. Then something inexplicable happened - I stopped being interested. I don't know how it happened or why, but for the last 10 years I've only purchased a few CDs and rarely listen to the hundreds I already have. This all changed a few months ago when I found out Moz would be playing nearby, at a small intimate theater! I knew I couldn't miss it. After I got my ticket I bought ROTT and Earls Court so I could familiarize myself with his recent work. The last Moz CD I bought was Kill Uncle. I also saw him on that tour, but I was more of a Smiths fan back then and wasn't too impressed with his solo work. Listening to ROTT and Earls Court has enabled me to fall in love with music again. I'm able to listen to Smiths stuff I haven't heard in years and appreciate it more than ever before, and I like Moz's new stuff more than I could imagine. Joining this forum has only solidified my musical reawakening. I'm not the obsessive most of you are, but it's nice to see people who have the same love and appreciation for good music I have. And I do know about musical obsession - I was a Deadhead in a previous life. Anyway, enough of my rambling. Hopefully after the show I won't be totally sick of all things Morrissey and I'll stick around here for awhile. One last thing. When Moz exits the theater I plan to stick a burlap sack over him, lift him upon my shoulders and run away with him, like what Borat tried to do with Pamela Anderson. So those of you with tickets for the remaining dates of the tour, consider it canceled. Sorry! I probably shouldn't even joke like this. I can see the responses already - "You call yourself a fan?! How dare you treat my Mozie that way!"