The closest I've come to a spiritual experience in my life was dreaming of going on a roller coaster ride with Freddie Mercury shortly after I became obsessed with Queen (but mostly Freddie), and then hearing the roller coaster line in These Are the Days of Our Lives for the 1st time afterward. 🤷
Queen was my first heart band. The maroon Greatest Hits tape almost never left my cassette player in high school. I even saw Brian May and Roger Taylor play with Paul Rodgers when they toured. But gosh I wish I could have seen Freddie perform live.
Anyway this is an oblique way of saying I want to be a little more audacious with my style when I give talks because if I’m going to talk paleontology I may as well dress like a rock star. Freddie would want me to.
Ohh, Riley my late mum got to see him in concert and I was always jealous 🤣 I like to think they’re hanging out somewhere, talking about music! Freddie 💜
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thousands of rational explanations for this including "common coincidence" and "I like roller coasters and time travel and Freddie Mercury"
but the feeling will always stick~
queen is still my heart band. and who wants to live forever is my heart song.
but you can probably blame highlander for that.