My Gen X Playlist: Go Daddy O – Big Bad Voodoo Daddy

To say that COVID was a big disrupter is an understatement. We used to do a Vegas guys trip, but that had been put on hold for the past three or four years. We have been going to Vegas together the last thirty years. The frequency waned a bit as we got older, but we tried to at least save one weekend a year for the guys. Last month the annual trip was resurrected and we hit the road.

Our Vegas trips have changed as we aged. We no longer gamble until breakfast the next morning. Although we never say no to free drinks, it’s a little tamer as we play cards. We make sure we have a nice dinner at least once during the trip. This time we went to a steakhouse. The mornings are not about hang overs or hair on the dog. Work hard, play hard is so far in the rear view mirror, it’s nonexistent. We are not trying to relive our youth, thank God. That would hurt too much. We’ve turned into a bunch of middle aged guys that enjoy hanging out, playing cards over a few drinks. Discussions turn to the good old days, but often times we catch up on life, how the family is doing, the latest in sports, aches and pains and what meds we are currently taking. It’s nothing to make the front page news, but in the most simplistic form, sometimes guys just need to hang out with the guys. What better place to do this than Vegas. You know the saying, What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Well, for us, the only thing that stays in Vegas is the money we lose at the tables. But it’s a great weekend. It’s worth it.

Swingers was one of our favorite movies of the 90s. So much of the movie feels like life in your twenties wrapped around a storyline of getting over a broken heart.

Mike Peters is a struggling actor who left New York, and a girlfriend behind, to find success in L.A. The move caused his girlfriend of six years to split up with him six months earlier and left him feeling alone and heartbroken.

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In one scene, his buddy takes him to Vegas, because that’s what guys do when their buddy is down, needing help to bounce back.

“We got to get you the fuck out of Dodge. . . We’re going to Vegas. . . Vegas, baby, Vegas!“

I crack a smile sometimes when I think about that scene while making the drive from LA to Sin City. The music in the movie is interesting. The swing dancing scene with Big Bad Voodoo Daddy playing Go Daddy O comes to mind. I never knew swing dancing was a thing in LA in the 90s. 

It’s a great movie, if you haven’t seen it. Is it a guy movie? Maybe, but I’d argue not entirely. It’s funny, sad, cringeworthy and happy all rolled up into one. It’s about getting over a broken heart, with your buddies by your side helping you through it. Like I said, sometimes you just need to hang out with the guys.

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Go Daddy-O
Go Daddy-O
Go Daddy-O

Go Daddy-O
Go Daddy-O
Go Daddy-O

Go, go
Go, go
Go, go

You gotta go Daddy-O