Elizabeth Taylor

Being from the boom generation, I'm pretty computer dumb. I love certain kinds of music, but I don't have a music device such as an MP3. I have a blog, but barely know how to sign into it. Any time I get in trouble on the computer, I get my wife to come and fix it. In the airplane, I use the GPS to give me course and track and groundspeed. I'm so grateful to have that, I don't ask the GPS to do anything else for fear I will push the wrong button and it will go away. I was fiddling around on YouTube watching the oldies from my childhood. I have a few old folk songs at my own YouTube channel. This is only because my wife set it up for me. While I was watching a Neil Young song "Long May you Run" (about a car), I clicked on a cover of the song. It was by a person called "the brooke" or "brooke". She had the sweetest voice I ever heard. Just a kid from Montana. I was amazed that her cover had 53,000 hits. My "Four Strong Winds" (also Neil Young) cover, has by comparison, 400 hits. Then I clicked on her cover of Sam theSham's "Little Red Riding Hood". 199,000 hits! Check her out! I guess if I'm a YouTube junkie, and I Google anything I have a question about, and I have a blog, I must be at a level that I can at least use the computer in a rudimentary way. The way I use the GPS. But what strikes me is how great the computer technology enables me to reminisce about the older stuff. Old songs, history, facts, myths Another thing that strikes me is that newer generations who play video games and text 24-7, embrace things like Sam the Sham. I know I'm way, way out of touch and that's OK. We all have our place in the time line. But having a computer and putting a few little songs up on YouTube makes me feel connected. And there are lots of folks on there with me. The internet is the new town square. The new Times Square. Obama is the first internet president. Each person can get what they want from the web. Somebody like the brooke can get rich and famous from it. I bet she will. But I'd like to give her some advice. Not about singing. She's the best ever. But about life. The fictional character Velvet in the book National Velvet (or movie) has new found world fame. Her mother advises her to enjoy it for a short time, and then move on to a normal life with normal love and family. She obeys and that's the end of the movie. So brooke. Don't be Brittany Spears. Enjoy your love and your new baby and friends and family in Montana. Post a song now and then and a million of us will log on line. You'll still be a great singer. You just won't be a freak in a glass cage that everyone wants to see fall. As for money, anyone can tell you there is never enough money, if it's money you want. I just saw "National Velvet" on TCM the other day. I highly recommend it.