Sun, 16 Dec 2007
Lung Disease
Brad wrote a song eulogizing one of his dead friends. There's enough in the description to guess what remedy would have helped him. So for armchair homeopaths everywhere, here is the case:,/p>
This song is actually not about a girl as it seems to imply, but about my friend Jim Bradler, who died in his mid-20's of some kind of weird lung ailment that I never did find out much about. He was from New Jersey and had such a strong Jersey accent it sounded almost like a parody of a Jersey accent. He loved to imitate the vendors at baseball stadiums back east, "Bee-ah Hee-yah!!" (trans. "Beer here") Whenever he saw or even heard mention of some hot chick he'd say, "Gimme 'er numbah!" (trans. "Give me her [telephone] number") Hence the lyrics to the bridge of the song.
He used to have pages of Penthouse magazine plastered all over his dorm room. I remember one girl-on-girl shoot that had the caption under one photo "the scents that mingled with their sighs." That line found its way into the song. He also had striking blue eyes. I'm not gay (and I don't care if you are or not) but Jim was a very good looking man. Maybe somehow that's why it was easier to cast the song as a peon to lost love than to come right out and express what I really wanted to say.
The focus of the disease on the lungs, the patient's striking good looks, and his randiness makes me think that the remedy is Tuberculinum. Too bad more people don't know about homeopathy.
