Man’s Car Stereo on Fritz; He Copies “Friday Night Lights” Theme Song Down on Post-It

Juneau, AK - William Forester, Flash animator for the Caribou Winds Hospice in Juneau, Alaska, was distressed to find on one cold, dark, early morning as he drove to work that the stereo system in his 15-year-old pickup had died during the night like some priest who had been tortured by scalding coffeeboarding and comes-to only to find that he’s been left naked in mid-air about 100 feet directly above a swimming pool full of shattered glass and good assassins.

“The ‘Friday Night Lights’ TV theme song is the only thing in my life. The only thing. When I realized I wouldn’t be able to listen to it over and over on my way to work, I was about to point a gun to my heart,” said Forester.

But Forester did the exact opposite. That night, he sat at his kitchen table and pointed his not-gun (a Sharpie) to his not-heart (a Post-it note) and wrote an approximation of the evocative moody guitar piece: “Berr-er-er-er berr-er-rer-rer wah wah wah wah.”

“I put the the Post-it on my dashboard, and at stop lights or things sort of like that, I look at that note and the nostalgia sweeps over me. I think the song was literally written by angels,” Forester said.

NOTE: Mr. Forester was mistaken about the author of the “Friday Night Lights” TV series theme song. It was not angels, but rather a person.

“Friday Night Lights” character Buddy Garrity (played by someone named Brad Leland)

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