22 January 2010, 9:58pm
When Jeff Buckley Saved My Life
So I’m watching this Hope for Haiti benefit… very on point… totally impressive. I just watched Justin Timberlake and some other guy I didn’t recognize rip up a righteous version of Hallelujah. It was moving. Of course this conjures up memories of Jeff Buckley and his (in my opinion) masterpiece, Grace. Too bad he died so young.
For me, it brings back the summer of 2003… my first date with Lisa. I didn’t think much of it at first… just another date… another restaurant… another glass of wine. But then I asked her about music.
“What do you listen to? What kind of music do you like?”
She responded… “I’m really into Jeff Buckley.”
To which I gushed… “Holy shit… Grace… a perfect album.”
She blushed.
We spent the rest of the night making fools of ourselves bouncing from bar to bar… making out in front of total strangers. We were married two years later.
