OPERATOR (THAT’S NOT THE WAY IT FEELS) BY JIM CROCE
So in Grade 1 I bought my first record that wasn’t a kids’
record. It was the Jim Croce’s greatest hits and I loved it. This song is one
of my favorites and recently I woke up from a deep sleep singing it. I think
part of the reason I liked it so much was that he was dead. Looking at an
artist’s work through the lens of their untimely death makes them very
interesting to me. Even then it did.
The 70’s were a great time to grow up because everyone was mellow and it was just an easier time. I long for those golden, long days of 1975, you know what I mean?
I recently heard this on the TV series Transparent from
Amazon (nobody’s paying me for this plug) and was reminded of how
good it is. Transparent stars Jeffery Tambor as a man with three kids who is
transitioning to becoming a woman and we see how his family deals with this and
their own problems. Good Stuff.
The number on the matchbook is old and faded:
I only wish my words could convince myself that it just wasn’t real:
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