Author’s note: This is the seventh installment of my weekly column, Barely Relevant.
The sound of Van Morrison sniffing in “TB Sheets” always makes me laugh. Except it isn’t supposed to be funny. The song is about a girl dying on her deathbed, and the Van Morrison character wants to be anywhere in the world but there – with her. I knew a girl once that went and saw Van Morrison play. She said he came out onto the stage and vomited all over a woman in the front row. That made me laugh, too. For some reason Van Morrison just makes me laugh.