Pace on Earth

It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)

Despite the longer days and Southern exposure these are dark days on Henry St. The Bakery lost its Jester last week. He is off to the greener pa$ture$ of Cowtown in search of the Canadian Dream and his Captain Fabulous cape. Jess was a longtime diplomat at the Embassy on Union st. and him, the Stormer and me lived together for close to 3 years. Some wise men with terrible hair once sang that you "don't know what you got til it's gone". Well frankly Cinderella, I disagree. I know exactly what I would be missing if someone removed my fridge from my kitchen and I feel the exact same way about Jess...if that makes any sense. My point is, he will be missed. Normy, as usual, is suffering from some mild separation anxiety. Every night I come home and he asks me if I have any obscure sports stats for him and to guess how many calories I burned while sitting on my ass all day. He has been carrying on a daily vigil at the gym though...he's such a trooper.

In my mind, if they made a movie about this chapter in Jess's life there would be a montage set to It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll). As an avid fan of Bonfire era AC/DC I'm sure Jess would concur. In fact, if not for Jessie's Girl I have no doubt that he would happily use it as his theme song. For me the song is the ultimate Friday afternoon song. To see what I mean turn your speakers up and get a load of this:
The song is notable for a)it's message - the essence of Rock'n'Roll - and b)the first known effective use of bagpipes in a rock song. We love it...

Giv'er Jess

Pace Out.

posted by Vitamin S @ 5:20 p.m.