I love hearing these covers of older 80s music. So much nostalgia. The original is from Jackson Brown and was featured in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. That is where I heard it first.
So many memories. I was 6 when I watched it and I do not think it was my first rated R movie. We had a back room with our record player, a TV, and a trundle bed. I would pull out the trundle and lay for hours watching HBO or MTV.
It is weird looking back and thinking about those days. There was a lot of good mixed with a lot of bad and we tend to focus on the bad. One thing I remember about those times watching things that made me want to grow up too fast when I already had circumstances in my life pressuring me to grow up too soon, was the ability of my brain to understand the nuances of the characters and story lines.
I understood more about relationships and connections at a very young age. There were even times I watched my mother make bad choices and try to talk to her about it, but what did I know? I was just a kid. It was years later when she finally admitted to herself I was right.
That was hard for me at first to think about all the bad that came from her choices because she thought she needed a man to make her happy and to support her. She thought she wasn’t worth too much and latched on to the first one that came along even though it was very obvious to me that he was not a good man.
Those were her decisions to make, though and now I get to make my own. I get to say that I am worthy enough for an exceptional kind of love.
Lisa Gray 