Chapter VII Music Theme from Taxi

January 3, 2000

Now I just want to go on record as saying I have only seen the show a handful of times, mostly at my Aunt Dee and Uncle Ray's house when I slept over when I was little. There is an extended version of this song that is played on the radio all the time, on one of my dad's stations. Funny it's the only station he and I can agree on to listen to while we take the drive once a month down to Springfield. Whenever the flue plays the first coup le of notes, I immediately start humming the tune. It's another song the reminds me of New York City because when we drive down the Garden State Parkway ,it is often at night and I could see the famous skyline. I downloaded the song off the Internet because it's a song made with the help of a computer. Computer have enhanced the music industry a lot over the years enabling the impossible. Like having living artists preform duets with ones who are deceased.

December 30, 2001

The setting of the series takes place in a New York City which having witnessed the destruction of the World Trade :Center, makes it a bit harder to write about. Those towers meant a lot to millions of people who worked there and sadly lost their lives when those two planes crashed into the buildings. I'm not even going to touch upon how devastated it was to see them crumble to the ground. During the days, weeks and months after the attack I saw the courage of everyday people. I witnessed the anguish in the eyes of a mayor trying to pull his city together. Guilliani was the best mayor New York City ever had.

The song has phases, some good and others not so pleasant. Kind of like New York or any other place in the world. Although with what happened, I am hard pressed to find a bad thing to state about New York. Maybe it's because I started to going in when I was not even two days old. My first trip was in the back of an ambulance on my way to Columbia hospital. Then the song turns a bit more upbeat which signifies that things will get better. Same thing happened on September 11th, events got real horrible, but then the city rebuilds.

I agree a memorial should be built at Ground Zero and that it should represent everyone who died there. This isn't an easy thing to do because like the rest of New York City, the people who worked in the buildings were so diverse. My first reaction, as crazy as it seemed, was to rebuild the towers as they once stood. The only difference is to place guns on top of the buildings to shoot anything down that threatencome too close! They should also reinstall all the antennas and dedicate the array to all the broadcast engineers who didn't make it out. The greatest buildings in the world should be totally restored. I think the victims would want it that way.