Several weeks ago, I brought you the story of Chad Morris’ selection by me as the second handsomest coach in the AAC. It turns out that me is not the only person to notice what a guapo bunch of fellers that SMU suits up every Saturday.
SMU Junior Safety Myles Crosby exudes sufficient raw animal magnetism to make a lucrative career out of modeling. In fact, the Colleyville Heritage (Texas) alum is leaving the program to pursue a career in modeling full-time. Crosby played infrequently last season for the Mustangs, registering one tackle.
Crosby was a June Jones recruit and appears to have left the program recently. EJ Holland of the Dallas Morning News realized that Crosby’s name was no longer listed on the SMU roster and decided to look into the matter. Holland reports that Crosby will be getting back to work with some of the top names in men’s fashion, including Calvin Klein and Ralph Lauren, both of whom he modeled for before signing on to play football at SMU.
It’s not hard to see why advertisements featuring Crosby in various states of disrobe have appeared in the pages of GQ, Vanity Fair, and Esquire Magazines. He exudes the same aloof Texas Cowboy moody Adonis vibe as Tim Riggins. He has the figure of an Olympic swimmer and the locks of an actor turned lead singer.
On the side, Crosby rocks the mic well under the name Mirko. Our man Myles is not only a Division I football player and a supermodel. He is also a hip hop artist of growing renown.
I listened to several of Mirko’s tracks, including his first single, “Cinderella.” On his first single, Crosby shows off a vocal flow that would make the Micromachines guy envious. Mirko’s lyrics bear the influence of Eric B. and Rakim, Kendrick Lamar, William Safire, and Audre Lorde. The production reminds me of Quincy Jones’ film score for Cactus Flower (1969).
I highly recommend the music video for “Cinderella” as well. Director Parker Foster uses the song as a starting point for a psychological examination of the lead male and female actors in the video, presumably Cinderella and Mirko. Their on-screen dynamic is not dissimilar to Gena Rowlands and Peter Falk’s in the John Cassevetes film A Woman Under the Influence (1974).
There is something about the hook to “Cinderella” that reminds me of the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo.” I may be alone on this one, but I think “Kokomo” is a great song. Cocktail might not be much of a movie, but at least Tom Cruise’s follow-up to Top Gun gave us a great Beach Boys song, about the 500th they’d recorded in their five decade run.
I love Terry Melcher’s production on “Kokomo.” No, it isn’t Brian Wilson’s on Pet Sounds, but It has a bit of that Billy Joel-Phil Ramone feel to it that my Cousin Todd and Jerry Orbach and Suzanne Plechette and I like so much. I get the sense that Mirko was listening to a lot of Billy Joel when he made “Cinderella.”
I was listening to a lot of Billy Joel when writing this article as well. In between Mirko songs, I put on Billy Joel’s Storm Front album, which includes the song “That’s Not Her Style,” which in my imagination I sang at the Moscow, Idaho Elks Club Karaoke Night on Friday June 17, 1994. I received a standing ovation from the assembled Muscovites after finishing the song. The people of Moscow thanked me the next day by giving me a key to their fair city and cancelling their Pulaski Day celebrations permanently. They replaced the Pulaski Day parade with a mandatory public assembly on the first Monday of March at which I perform an interpretive dance to Billy Joel’s “Downeaster Alexa,” also found on the Storm Front LP.
The only reason I mention this is that I was listening to Billy Joel’s Storm Front album when I read the news that SMU had hired Chad Morris as head coach. This is proof that good things happen when you listen to Billy Joel.
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