My First Time

It has come to the attention of Blogagaard that Meat Loaf is a hot button topic for some people (namely our good friend, The Captain!). We here at Blogagaard are not surprised. Such an explosive creative force is bound to generate such an explosive response. Far worse would be the artist's greatest enemy, Indifference. So, without further ado, is a more positive tesimonial from one David Oppegaard, a dear friend of those of us at Blogagaard:

"The first time I ever heard a song by Meat Loaf, I mean really HEARD it, I was playing pool in a friend's basement. I was thirteen, desperately smitten with a girl in my class whose name shall go nameless, in the off chance that anyone from my hick town ever reads this (I love you L.C.!) Anywhere, where was I? Oh yes. Playing pool in my friend Stoney's basement. Ah, good times. We would stay up all night, drinking our own personal 2 liter of Coca-Cola and/or Jolt, listen to music, play pool, watch terrible horror movies, and of course submerse ourselves in video games. What's that? Oh yes, Meat Loaf. The song was "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That". At my tender age I had no conception of Meat Loaf, or really romance beyond X-Men comics and The Autobiography of Malcom-X, which for some reason I really liked reading back then. But when I heard this sweet, seemingly endless song, I finally had myself an anthem for what I felt for old-what's-her-name. A song to get me through the long, dark nights of love unrequited, which was all love for me until the age of 17, when my first girlfriend finally made me a man. Thanks, Sarah! I'd do anything for love, but I won't move back to L.C.!"