Good Ole John Tesh

  Today I am listening to the music of the one and only, John Tesh.  This may surprise you, but I enjoy listening to John Tesh.  If someone were to ask me why I enjoy The Tesh, I’d have to say it’s due to his luscious, bountiful and beautiful hair, along with his talent as it relates to a piano.  People that know me would say, “Dude, you’ve never listened to John Tesh!”  Those same people would probably give me a little bit of a hard time as well.  What they don’t know is that I listened to John Tesh as a young lad.  I’d have to say that type of music really gets to me.  It’s not just The Tesh’s music that does it for me.  It’s that type of music.  Any music that I can close my eyes to, and imagine myself anywhere, but the place I’m actually in is my type of music.  Sometimes words get in the way of an imagination.

    When I was in 9^th or 10^th grade (I can’t remember which one.  I think it was 9^th grade.), there was this girl in my typing class that I thought was absolutely beautiful.  I’ll move past the description because this is already pretty sappy.  Of course I was too scared to say anything to her, but I thought about her a lot.  This was around the time that the movie, Titanic, was really popular.  I came across the soundtrack for the movie one day, and I really liked the music.  It was the type of music I could close my eyes to and imagine myself anywhere, but the place I was actually in.  I would imagine myself talking to this girl that was in my typing class and asking her out on a date.  I would imagine her smiling and laughing, but not because I asked her out on a date.  The smiling and laughing was separate from the asking her out on a date scene (Stick with me here.).  I wouldn’t imagine us on the Titanic or anything like that.  It was just simple conversation, holding her hand, a smile or a laugh.  The funny thing was that I never even heard her talk.  She could’ve been completely ghetto for all I knew.  I never did muster up the courage to talk to her, and once that class was finished I never saw her again. 

  So, today I’m listening to The Tesh.  Even if you like hard rock, rap, alternative, etc…., you might like some of this type of music.  Some of it doesn’t work for me.  If I start to get the feeling that I’m standing in an elevator, I shut it down.  All I can tell you is, I’d give it a shot.  We all need an escape from reality sometimes, and for me, The Tesh’s music or music like his, helps me to go into what I call “Chill Mode”.  Chill Mode and a Solid Plan B seems to sum up my life these days.  Things change from day to day.  It can all be overwhelming.  A little Teshy Tesh brings me down a notch or two. 

“Chill Mode, a Solid Plan B, beautiful (possibly ghetto) typing class chick, epic Titanic film score and The Tesh – What else does one need to achieve complete escape?  Maybe a poptart.”