For today's tune, I've chosen William Shatner's 'That's Me Trying', written by Ben Folds, Aimee Mann and Nick Hornby. Somewhat oddly, I had a Facebook request from a reunion page for my old school this evening. I left back in 2001. I'm still friends with a couple of people I went to school with, and very occasionally keep up with others through Facebook, but a reunion is not something that appeals to me in the slightest. I'm a different person now to who I was at school, and I have no compulsion to tell people who didn't really like me things about myself that I know they have no desire to know. There's some vice versa in there too, but I do tend to bother with anyone who genuinely bothers with me. It just seems an odd idea as far; as I'm concerned, if people want to know about me, they can get in touch with me directly!
Anyway, I've droned on a little there, my apologies! Basically, the 'reunion' thing sparked me into thinking of potentially worthwhile reunions, such as that documented in 'To Her Door', yesterday's entry on these pages (oddly selected well before the aforementioned Facebook weirdness). Another song that sprung to mind was 'That's Me Trying', beautifully penned by three great writers. The theme of the song is obvious from the lyrics, and Shatner delivers a fine performance in his role as the estranged father writing to his daughter.
I don't want to know what happened in your thirties...
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