SOTD-Howard Jones "What is Love"

If you've grown up in the country or spent alot of time in the country, you'll know what I'm talking about.
I was upstate this weekend (which is making NYC that much more intolerable on a Monday)and when you are in the middle of the woods and it is 'hot August hot', you've got to just roll with it. Maybe it was growing up in the Midwest and tolerating so many nights as a little girl where I laid on my bed in my cotton slip, as still as a bug, in stifling heat, trying to ward it off. Somehow, I believe, it makes you grow a tolerance for a heavy, still, oak tree kind of heat. This is why I have never liked air conditioning. It's summer and I want to feel the outside. I want to feel the heat. I've always found it comical when people bitch about the heat and live in refrigerator cold ac, when the weather is so sexy and balmy and hot. ENJOY IT! It will be gone soon.
To the point of my song post. On such a night, Saturday, Kim had gone to bed early, so my girlfriend Melinda and I stayed up, hanging on the porch. We ended up smoking a 'little', if you know what I mean. I rarely, rarely, do this, so when I do, I become more of the two things I am- giggly and/or extemely introspective and thoughtful. So, we smoke and we are sitting in the hot night ,silent heat, feeling a little groovy and she turns on her Ipod. She is my age, so we grew ip in the same musical generation, and she had alot of good early 80's music. We began having discussions about techno, and Sex Pistols vs The Clash, and "didn't you love Terri Nunn from Berlin's bleach blonde hair with black tips", blah, blah, blah,....that kind of talk.
Then this song came on out of the blue. It's a great song. And it was so funny because we had been dead silent throughout the song, listening, sitting there in the swing, and when it ended , Melinda turned to me, all stoner dazed like and said -
"That's a great fucking song isn't it?"
and me, all grooved out as well, looked back and said "That is a great fucking song."
It was a total 'stoner in the 70's at a Pink Floyd concert' moment. I liked about letting people be just what they need to be. That's a good lesson.
Anyway, this is a really good song. And I get tickled sometimes when I think of those of you who are too young to maybe know this song, that read my blog ,that will now know it. It always makes me happy.