Mr. Random

Last night Mrs. Random and I listening to the wonderfully awesome Elton John double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road while making and eating dinner. All my Elton love came rushing back. Well, it never went away. I just don’t listen to EJ that much anymore. But when I came across the album at the ARRRRRR! store, I couldn’t help but help myself. Heh. Fuckin’ kickass musical experience. We were talking about the lyrics, and Mrs. R reminded me that Bernie Taupin wrote most of them.

When I was a freshman in HS, a friend and I started a little company reselling our Columbia House record club records for profit (you know, get 12 records for a penny! you could do that several times before they caught on). We called our business Captain Fantastic Enterprises. In the wiki article on BT, I learned that he always wanted to be a “brown dirt cowboy”… and that he co-owned a world champ PBR bucking bull named Little Yellow Jacket. Now don’t you feel edified?

P.S. Here’s a great “customer review” of GYBR at Amazon.