Playlist for the Unemployed & Downtrodden
Earlier this week when I was writing a story (I use this term loosely these days) about Jon Gosselin attempting to turn the beat around (literally) by embarking on a new career as a "celebrity disc jockey," (every bit of that sentence is true, btw) I couldn't help but wonder what might be on the henpecked ex-husband's playlist. Certainly anyone who's had the misfortune of catching even the smallest snippets of Jon & Kate Plus 8 imagines Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry is probably a given. When my boys were a bit younger and would attempt to swing from our chandelier or see if they could climb out a second story window onto our porch roof and shimmy down our holly tree as if it were a fire pole, I'd often hear the lyrics from Les Misérables' I Dreamed a Dream in my head. It was this line in particular: "I had a dream my life would be so different from this hell I'm living." Surely that's not uncommon among Broadway-showtune-lovin