Thursday, November 20, 2025
Time: 4:45 PM
Song: Always
Artist: Bon Jovi
Mode of Consumption: Listening to MP3s on the way home from work.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/2RChe0r2cMoyOvuKobZy44?si=88f21e4fdb344b16
My first thought when hearing this song is that I remember being at a roller-skating party in junior high and I held the hand of a girl while spinning around the rink. I think that was probably my first such experience. I can’t even say how that happened. I’d like to say I was romantic from the start, but most of my early brushes with the opposite sex were generally haphazard, awkward, and spontaneous.
My second thought is that Bon Jovi really leaned heavy into the sappy rock ballads in the early 90s after living on the pop side of the hair-band experience in the 80s. Songs like this and “Bed of Roses” were the norm for Mr. Jovi at the time. It wasn’t until the end of the 90s with “It’s My Life” that his music returned with a little more pep.
My third thought really has nothing to do with the song. Our plan for Thursday night was to attend a showing of “Predator: Badlands.”
First, I have always been a sucker for this franchise and “The Alien” franchise. I guess as a male child of the 80s, this just hit the right chords with me.
I do find it interesting that in so many of these instances that the creatures that began their fictional lives as the antagonist have evolved into the protagonist over the last 40 years. “Badlands” took that tact, at least with the Dek, the main Predator character.
Some did it quickly. Arnold in Terminator went from the bad guy in the original to the hero in the second movie a few years later.
We seem to be obsessed with the villain. I mean, how many Joker movies have there been? I am not sure, as I haven’t watched them. I assume there have been other instances in the Marvel cinema universe.
Maybe the modern world
simply identifies with the motivation of the villain more with the hero.
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