from City Winery -with the bAnd Dinah Shore Jr. (Alex Nolen, Amanda Ruzza, Catlin Kalafus)
Over the last couple of years, for some reason, I’ve been searching out old records, comic books, toys, and kitsch from my childhood. I’ve been watching movies from the 70s and 80s and old TV shows. I have been trying to find old boyfriends/ girlfriends on Facebook. I went through my mom’s collection of all my 90s “Jill Sobule” memorabilia: the booklet from Radio City where I opened up for Joe Jackson, the VHS tapes of when I hosted MTV 120 Minutes, my Tonight Show appearance where I sat between crazy James Woods and David Dukovany, and the picture of when I was on stage with…James Brown, James Taylor, Carol King, Brian Wilson, Neil Diamond and friggin Sir Paul McCartney. Yes I was. The glory years. Is this just innocent nostalgia, or is this what old people start doing? Am I becoming my Lawrence Welk loving grandparents? Have I forsaken new adventures, new sounds, new possibilities for a rickety old time machine?
It’s time to move on. But I still may have to watch Columbo?
By the way, my very first boyfriend messaged me on Facebook this year. He asked me to go steady in 6th grade, then one week later broke with me. I hadn’t seen him since Jr. High. He wrote a cute letter, saying that he had followed my career and was proud of me. He added, “ I hope you’re still not mad at me”. I wrote back, saying in my head with my best Talulah Bankhead, always knew one day you’d come crawling back”.
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