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“Just Thinking”
Thoughts and Prayers - On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy in Dallas TX.
Yesterday, nature reminded us that seasons change, with the wind whipping through the trees and the rain falling intermittently throughout the day. Time has come to breakout the slippers, jackets, bennies and umbrellas, burning a fire and running the heater. Time to start contemplating some comfort foods, soups, stews, chilly and oh yeah chicken pot pies.
I couldn’t help but think of Guns N' Roses’ classic ballad, November Rain, which was stuck on a loop in my head for most of the day, yesterday. I rewatched the video, I had forgotten what a powerful video it was. It centers on the wedding and subsequent heartbreak between Axl Rose and his bride. The story captures moments of joy, with the band playing in a packed theater with a full orchestra, then a packed cathedral for Axl’s wedding and the outdoor reception that ends in a huge downpour. Followed by moments of sorrow when it show’s Axl’s new bride laying in an open casket on the same alter that she was just married on, her death, leaving Axl devastated. Slash's has an iconic guitar solo taking place in an open desert by a small church, I was taken aback to be reminded that the song came out in 1992, dating myself again.
There are so many movies and songs in our culture that deal with rain and once I started down the rabbit hole, I remembered a bunch of fun rain songs.
MacArthur Park by Richard Harris, "Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it,’ Cause it took so long to bake it, and I'll never have that recipe again.” The Carpenters, Rainy Days and Mondays with the catch phrase "Rainy days and Mondays always get me down. Purple Rain by Prince, "I never meant to cause you any sorrow, I never meant to cause you any pain, I only wanted to one time to see you laughing, I only wanted to see you laughing in the purple rain." B.J. Thomas’ Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head that was featured in the awesome western Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, staring Robert Redford, Paul Newman and Katherine Ross. The song Have You Ever Seen the Rain by Creedence Clearwater Revival was featured in the 1978 film Who'll Stop the Rain, starring Nick Nolte, Dad, KB and I saw that movie in the Granada Theater on Mission St. back in the day.
Some the other rain songs and movies that came to mind:
It’s Raining Men – The Weather Girls, a disco era classic. Set Fire to the Rain – Adele. Rain – The Beatles. No Rain – Blind Melon. Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain – Willie Nelson. It's Raining Again – Supertramp. Fire and Rain – James Taylor. Singing in the Rain – the classic Gene Kelly, song, movie and dance scene. Rhythm of the Rain – The Cascades. Rain on Me – Lady Gaga & Ariana Grande. Here Comes the Rain Again – Eurythmics
A couple movies that feature rain:
Rain Man (1988) - Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. Black Rain (1989) - Michael Douglas. The Rainmaker (1997) – the Francis Ford Coppola movie starring Matt Damon. Then there is my favorite rain in a movie scene that takes place in the 1984 classic baseball movie, The Natural, Roy Hobbs (Robert Redford), hits a game-winning home run that shatters stadium lights as lightning strikes and the skies open in a torrential downpour an iconic moment in sports/ rain cinema.
“So never mind the darkness, we still can find a way 'cause nothin' lasts forever, even cold November rain.”
Let me know what you think.
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