http://comedymusiccellar.com The Funniest Moments In Music Through The Generations Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:38:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://comedymusiccellar.com/elvis-costello-and-buddy-holly/ http://comedymusiccellar.com/elvis-costello-and-buddy-holly/#comments Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:22:48 +0000 admin http://comedymusiccellar.com/?p=45 Who says, that wearing glasses isn’t cool.  Who ever they are, they’ve obviously never been introduced to either Buddy Holly or Elvis Costello.  Personally, I think even Roy Orbison would fit into this category, but I’m not sure my aunt would agree.  It’s true, that for some reason she’s just never had a fond place in her heart for the man, so for her sake I’ll leave him out of this story.  I always grew up thinking that wearing eyeglasses was a cool thing to do.  My wife always thought that was kind of weird, but she’s mostly gotten used to it by now.  You know, I’ve never admitted this to anyone, but I never really thought it was the “wearing” of prescription glasses that was cool, it was the taking them off and putting them on that made you cool.  I can’t remember which movie it was, but sometime during the eighties I remember seeing an actor take off his glasses during a very cool moment in the movie, and it stuck with me.  As I write this, I’m thinking it could have been Tom Cruise in Top Gun.  There was a scene where he peels off those aviator glasses and says something really cool to one of his adversaries.  I’ll have to watch it now to figure that out.

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