Billy Joel's daughter overdoses, in hospital

The New York Post ^ | 12-5-09

[Twink]

LOL! Got Kid Rock’s All Summer Long?

Thanks. I so enjoy Billy Joel’s Only The Good Die Young.

[shibumi]

You know, this is really easy.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFOV78Pi358

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEAP8hpx7E0

[Twink]

Hmmm. I don’t understand my Faith. Interesting. You really have no clue.

This song, Billy Joel’s Only the Good Die Young, was one of the songs I really related to as a teen/college student. I wasn’t some geek or loser or any of the other terms that could describe those without a social life that never had the opportunity to have sex or be in a relationship. I was a good student, athlete, social butterfly, popular in high school and college, who chose to not have sex before marriage. All the jokes about Catholic girls, I got that, since I was a Catholic girl who practiced the faith.

If you’re honest, you’d see that the words to this song are pretty on target in the general sense.

The song isn’t Anti- Catholic at all.

[Twink]

It’s not easy for me.

Thanks for those videos.

Especially the second one. It’s been a while since I saw that.

[grand wazoo]

Sweetheart.

You are either willfully ignorant or just not sharp enough to understand when someone is putting down your faith. Your admission that you like Kid Rock makes me think you are not sharp enough.

[Borges]

I don’t like the Howard film either (didn’t bother with the books or 2nd film).

[dfwgator]

“Don’t forget your second wind”

[Borges]

Clever you...

[OneVike]

Christmas-time is really bad for some people. You start remembering the the people that have passed and how you miss them and how you could have done things differently.

My wife's birthday is December 13. Last year we got a call from her best friends husband the morning of Dec 13th. He told me his wife Marty had died of a heart attack in her sleep. He was at the Hospital when he called me at 6:00 am. I had to wake my wife up and tell her, and then I went to the hospital to be with him. I prayed for him and stayed by his side for a few hours until until his daughter arrived.

Because of the phone call, I totally forgot it was my wife's birthday until I came home and she was crying in bed. Until that moment I did not realize that in my rush to be with Gary at the Hospital in his time of need that I had awaken her up, not with a kiss and a,

"Happy birthday honey I love you."

But istead I woke her up with the sad news that her best friend had just died and I had to get to the Hospital to be with Gary, her husband. Needless to say my wife had a terrible birthday, compounded by the fact that just two weeks earlier she lost another close friend an older woman she had really gotten close to.

I had purchased a new Van for my wife last year and was planning on giving it to her on her birthday for a present that day. I still gave her the Van later that day, but understandably it was not the special gift it was meant to be because of Marty's death.

My wife was depressed most of last Christmas, and I can see moments of her being somewhat depressed this year. She has the added problem of still recovering from neck surgery to fix a disc problem she had.

All this to say that she blames herself for not contacting Marty for almost a Month because she was sick and her other friends death whom Marty did not know. She thinks she could have made a difference. I tell her it was the Lords time to bring Marty home, and we can only live with His timing. She understands it, but the guilt will always be there because of the missed conversations, and maybe the signs she feels she would have seen.

You know what sticks in my memory more than anything else from that day?

My friend Gary who's wife died that morning was still asking nurses and doctors if they knew the Lord Jesus and if they did not He wanted to share the Gospel with them.

It is the best testament of love for God and His Son that I have ever saw. Even in his pain, sorrow, and tears brother Gary was still about our Fathers business.

I pray for that kind of awareness for the Lords will everyday. It is this kind of understanding about God's will in our lives and a relationship with God that will ultimately help those who want to end their lives get through the most difficult times they face. When we have Jesus to live for we will not want to end our lives over anything this world seems to throw at us.

[dljordan]

Oh man, that’s a bad one. I’m sorry.

[Twink]

Then I guess it’s a good thing that your opinion doesn’t matter to me.

[Twink]

I like quite a few of Billy Joel’s songs. When I read about his daughter’s overdose, first song that came to my mind was Lullabye (Goodnight My Angel). I recall him writing it for her years ago (not sure how accurate that is) and I always thought it was such a beautiful song.

I like what I like when it comes to music, movies, tv, etc.

Yesterday, we were discussing Pearl Harbor, and a few of my students immediately brought up the movie “Pearl Harbor” and I didn’t enjoy that movie, lol.

[Borges]

He’s the closest thing the Rock Era has had to an Irving Berlin/ George M Cohan type. He’d be famous even if he didn’t sing at all. He’s written dozens of hit songs.

[dfwgator]

I remember when Joel played a concert in St Louis, the local Arch Bishop urged Joel not to play “Only The Good Die Young.”

Joel performed it twice.