"Scratching and dreaming till night turns into day -- It's a surefire method to waste your life away"

Hmm... Drinking a big cup of vegetable and rice soup and listening to MOTHER LOVE BONE.
I am drinking the soup because I am hungry. I was listening to Mother Love Bone in anticipation of watching Cameron Crowe's 1992 film "Singles" on DVD later tonight. Crowe famously reworked the original script for "Singles" in the immediate wake of the death of Andrew Wood, Mother Love Bone's one-of-a-kind, flamboyant lead singer.
The Seattle band remain one of the greatest "what if" propositions in rock.
Fueled by Wood's electrifying vocals, the band created a vibrant glam/punk hybrid that would sound at home in the world's largest arenas. Wood sounded like a "Frankenstein"-type merger of Freddie Mercury and Marc Bolan.
Sadly, Wood never had the opportunity to play the world's largest arenas -- he died after a heroin overdose on the eve of the band's debut album.
Guitarist Stone Gossard and bassist Jeff Ament eventually joined Eddie Vedder to form Pearl Jam.
We know what happened to Pearl Jam. We'll never know what might have happened to Mother Love Bone.
"Like my world, I'm on Fire" -- Andrew Wood, in "Gentle Groove."