I never knew that Jamie Cullum sang : "Gran Torino".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoLc43YuuTw
I have been listening to his music since I just logged on....not that anything I am going to say is going to make sense to anyone right now....then maybe....
I was listening to this song....and it brought back some precious moments when I was 19, just got my drivers liscence and wanted to buy a car. It was the dead of winter, cold, blowing and I walked into a GM dealer and announced that I wanted to buy a car.
No one really paid attention to me, all bundled up in a red hat and scarf , frozen but determined that night I was going to buy a car, my first one.
I walked outside, and walked up and down the isles of cars, all covered in snow....I could barely see what car was what. After 45 minutes of walking and wondering what to do.....then....there it was....at the end of the parking lot, a red camaro , with snow all over it , I pushed the snow all off it....panic set in , like the taste of champagne for the first time, the rush of my first kiss, there I was , in love.
There was no need for any more questions.....I test drove it in the middle of a snow storm .....signed the dotted line....she was mine.
I sound like a fool ? That is ok....while I listen for the 5th time of Gran Torino as I write this, every moment of that day has come back.
My first car,..... her name ? Betty Boop....
Now I love all different types of music.....The National has been my latest (since M.B) ....but the other day my friend's daughter ( 14 yrs old) got in my car and spotted a Jo Stafford cd . She said she knew that singer and asked to hear it....I could not believe what I just heard. So I put it on.....and there we were singing "No other Love" together. If you can find "Where or When" by the Dinning Sisters, please, let me know.
I grew up in a family that played music all the time, we cooked all the time as a family. My grandparents were avid Cooks. Both sides of the family , my father (French cooking) my mother's side (English-England grandmother (born), grandfather Irish (born) .
I have had the richest , warmest , childhood. We had happiness, good food, went to school, and weekends were the only times Ii saw my father, he always worked.
While the dinners cooked the music would play....my mother telling me " Catherine, can you make your cake ?" I was 12, and I knew what my love was going to be. My grandmothers taught me , each in their own way....the rest would follow eventually.
So before I bore you even more.....I am now 43 ....
I have just put on a great tune that I am now listening to.....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hba-rZHv4Gc
And should you ever come into my kitchen and hear this , then you know....I am so happy.....
Tonight I am thankful , for all my friends here at CT, for all who make this a wonderful experience, to share, to inspire, and learn.
Thank you.
Forgive me if I have bored you in anyway.............it was not my intent...... fond de mon coeur.....
