Van the Man
Those who read my stuff already know, I believe, my obsession with music. Music, at its finest, is heavens upon heavens greater than fiction. This is unfortunate and probably a shame but it’s true. Do I wish I was born with the talent to play the violin or keyboards or sick-ass Rolling Stones type lead guitar, I sure do. But I ain’t been blessed that way.
There's a genius named David Hume and he speaks of chance in life, that chance ain’t worth a shit. He likes answers to questions I imagine. I like this principle just fine how I like the character we study called Christ. That is, is that it’s perfectly debatable.
So let’s talk about chance. Every friend of mine puts down decent material (cash) on a sporting event. I have nothing against gambling and nothing against degeneracy and nothing against drugs—just as I have nothing against pretentious genius—nothing against the homeless and nothing against the weak or pathetic. Why would I, I myself am homeless, biblically speaking, and the quantity of souls on earth is literally mathematically without comprehension and yet the amount of souls on earth worth a damn is so small it's simple.
There’s moments on earth that can be measured without being measured. This is the stuff of music. Before I moved out West, I just knew it. Knew what, not real sure but I knew it. I had an Astral Weeks CD playing and Holy Moses I just knew it. It hit me like daddy God, hit me like falling in love. When I went that way, out West, Van Morrison's "Cypress Avenue " was playing through the stereo. One of them things. Chance. Was it worth a damn? Can only geniuses answer this?
I remember hearing Van Morrison as a child on the back deck on Sunday evenings while my dad drank a Guinness beer. My older brother figured out how to buzz-cut his own head thanks to our beautiful and super-creative mother, and then he'd buzz-cut my hair and our dad cooked the burgers and it was summer time and we were listening to Van Morrison’s Moondance Cd on the boom-box. And I know now I'll never be so young again and I know now Van Morrison was so old and yet so young too when he made that record, many, many years ago to be heard for many years to come.