Some stories are somewhat on the serendipitous side. In my other job, I had spent the day working with cable networks on a client whose demo is Adults 55+. Then I got on the phone with an old pal of mine who works for Retired Living, and we both assumed we'd be working till the day we drop dead.
And so, apparently, will the legendary Reggae producer, Lee "Scratch" Perry, The man who all but invented dub. For heaven's sake THE MAN WHO CO-WROTE "POLICE AND THIEVES", has to work for money.
Lee said "My wife needs money, and she has a lot of bills to get paid, and I will have to help her pay the bills. Lot of people believe in God but they are not aware of God. God is alive and God is coming like a thief in the night. You know God don't tell no one when he is coming. It could be a couple years, it could be three years, five, it could be 10. That's the idea. My wife love luxury, she loves money. She loves good food, she always wants to eat in good restaurants, and the shoes, the best clothes, the best everything. See, I believe in less, but my wife believe in best. She believe in vanity."
"I decide not to be a man, I want to be an angel, so I don't eat what the man eat. I don't smoke what the man smoke. So I stop smoke. I stop eating what man eat. I stop eat fish, I stop eat meat. I stop eat like an animal. I don't smoke any more because I wish to be healthy. So what man do I don't do any more. I do different."
Hmmm, OK. This I know for sure, if people are building monuments to Beyonce while Perry has to work to support his wife, this world is officially fucked.