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Recurring Theme song

Yesterday, when I got home from work, I saw the end of the one episode of Quantum Leap that I remembered from childhood. Sure I had pieces of other ones in my memory, but this one stuck with me because it pulled the old "Bait-n-Switch" that we americans love so much. Sam was a Cowboy trying to win the heart of stubborn cowgirl and eventually he softens her up only to lose her to another dude, so Sam thinks he's lost and will never leap out until he's looking for a Pig and inspires a young dorky Buddy Holly to change his song from "Piggy Suey" to "Peggy Sue". Classic, right? Right?

Father Figured

My dad was a big fan of Buddy Holly, or so I thought. He had a tape of Oldies that he got at a Gas station and he'd sing along to Buddy holly, so I figured he liked them a lot. After I got a job at Kmart's Lil Sleazers Pizza Station I had enough cash on hand to buy a really thoughtful (pricey) present for my dad for his birthday and I got him a Buddy Holly 2-CD retrospective. I think he liked it, but he never really listened to it as much as I hopedhe would. It was one in a line of presents for my dad that I tried to be thoughtful with and wasn't quite satisfied by the results. Recently, I got him some Babylon 5 Action figures for Christmas, thinking he'd have fun setting them up to re-enact his favorite scenes (Like Erica and I do with our Star Trek Figures) but he put them up in the attic to save and sell later. Not really a lucrative investment, but he did end up trying to go find more of them online at ebay auctions, so I guess it went alright.

The Buddy Legacy

In 1995 or so I was at Blockbuster music with Adam and he found the First Weezer album and brought it to me saying I should buy it because it had a song on it called "Buddy Holly" and he knew I had bought a buddy-holly CD for my dad a few years back. I considered it but put it back thinking they looked like another wacky alternative band cashing in on kitsch. My next Brush with Weezer was in Boca Raton when visiting Adam's friends from American university while we drove around in Ilana's car listening to Pinkerton. The songs sounded really good and I remembered the lines and melodies long after that night, but I didn't act on anything until 1998 when I was hanging out with Kevin McGowan and talking to Weerez1053 online. Now I revere Weezer as a band that made two of the finest albums I've heard, perfect for parties AND screaming along to in post-breakup sadness while driving in the car.

Buddy Holly... Can't bust-em.