Video Monday

My parents first got a CD player back when they were the size of a record player--which is what it was hooked up to, my dad's record player from college. We were met with strict instructions not to touch the new black box. Of course, we did.

There were three CDs that I remember going on for a while, Lionel Richie's Dancing on the Ceiling, which was just hilarious to gradeschool boys, Paul Simon's Graceland, that I was too young to understand, and the soundtrack to Stand By Me. I hadn't seen the movie, but it was my first introduction to Jerry Lee Lewis's "Great Balls of Fire," which is still one of my favorite songs.

Here are the boys pondering one of life's greatest questions: