Blowing it.

Hoon and Blind Melon.

On October 21, 1995, I celebrated my 14th birthday.  Ironically, on October 21, 1995, Shannon Hoon was found dead in his tour bus prior to a Blind Melon show in New Orleans.  He was 28. 

Like many rockers in the 90's, dying appeared to be somewhat of a trend, with the two most 'in vogue' ways to go being suicide and/or overdosing.  Shannon chose the later.  He, along with a gaggle of  rock star gluttons, like Kurt and Bradley, were pulling Seinfeld's before Seinfeld knew what "pulling a Seinfeld" meant. 

The first time I saw this video was on the ever-popular, "Channel One News," with a young Lisa Ling as anchor.  In high school, it was shown during the last period of the day, everyday, and I usually used these spare moments to finish my World Civ. homework from two days prior. 

However, on this day Lisa closed by introducing a new music video from Blind Melon's most recent album, "Soup."  The second I heard Hoon's distinctive voice, I gave up on completing my homework assignment and focused on the video, "Galaxie." To this day I'm sure many people will disagree with my choice, holding strong that "No Rain" was much better, but since this is MY blog, I'll go ahead and say that  Chunkie McChunkerson dressed in her bumble bee outfit was played-out a long time ago. "Galaxie" and the sorcerer boy are much cooler.  Boom-shock-a-locka, Bumble Bee Girl.  Go cut yourself, but stay away from the blow and shotguns.