Dream Job

I made a friend via the Internet back in 1994 or 1995. Her name was Heather and she lived in Chicago. We met via eWorld, which was the nascent, AOL-esque portal for Apple owners. Although I did fly out to meet her (she lived in Chicago and I had always wanted to visit there), we did not hook up. [I state this because everyone still thinks it was an interstate booty call. It was not. Had it been proffered, well, then, yes, perhaps. But I did not fly to Chitown thinking I was John Cusack in the The Sure Thing.]

At the time, Heather worked for a company that produced tractor pulls and similar type of big loud automotive events around the country at big venues like the Pontiac Silverdome and such. Gas fumes, mega-decibel engine revving, testosterone. One of the parts of her job was to put together video clips with music that would play on the Jumbotrons between activities. Seriously, a dream job for me at the time (okay, maybe not for Monster Trucks, but you gotta start somewhere).

One day I saw the video for Ned's Atomic Dustbin which was shot with the band in a car competing in a demolition derby (one of the features of Heather's company's events). I told her she had to use the song and the video and intercut actual demolition derby footage into it; the crowd will love it. She said otherwise -- usually the music used was straight and narrow classic rock -- Skynyrd, Seger, etc. No one would know the band let along the song. But, but, but, I protested, it would ROCK!

Alas, I lost the argument. But you can decide for yourself if you think this song and video would have made for Jumbotron excellence. (side note - I also think the music lead-in of the song would make for an excellent entrance for a sports team, wrestler, improv team, board meeting, stripper dance,....)