Oldies music
12-Mar-08
So as I have mentioned before, we are doing our recycle challenge today. So I was down there today because I like to get free lunch help the world see.
Speaking of those free lunches, I won a T-shirt as part of the challenge. I asked for a size large but they were out so they gave me an XL. But I figured hey, I keep getting all these free lunches so I should be filling out an XL in no time flat!!!
Anyways, they have a big TV in there but also XM music with a big sound system. So when I first got in there, what was showing on the TV but one of those movies I refuse to watch. For the record, the other movies on my “no watch list” are It’s a Wonderful Life and Miracle on 34th street. Oh and the Olympics.
So I of course took up a job that didn’t face the TV and (for the most part successfully) tried not to watch it. In interesting news, I was commenting to the guy who will soon be my boss about how I don’t watch it, and the reasoning. Which is basically because it was all the rage in the Mormon community, especially among the Utah folk that are living out here and going to school and they all thought it was so the bomb (dot com) and so Carolyn and I decided we’d be anti. Anyways it turns out that his brother is also LDS – converted 20 years or so ago and is a bishop out in California. So we talked about that for awhile.
And now we get to the subject of this post. After the movie which shall not be named was off, someone flipped on the music and it made its way to some 90s channel. It felt just like I was back in high school. I could picture the crazy high school dances, playing stuff like “Whoomp (there it is)” (not to be confused with “Whoot, There it is”. Everytime I thought it couldn’t be any more like high school, they’d bust out with some Mr. Big or Ace of Base.
And occasionally songs would come on that I wouldn’t recognize. One of them was the Friends song. And by wouldn’t recognize, I mean of course I recognized that particular one (and Breakfast at Tiffany’s) but I didn’t remember it from when it originailly debuted. It seems I have this “cultural gap” between say, July 1995 and August 1997. Hmm….. 
I was talking with a class of ’96er when the Friends song came on and I was talking about this cultural gap of mine and he was saying he thought it came out in 92 or 93. I was like “nooooooo way” and sure enough #1-1995 baby!
As an aside, I would like to request the world’s pre-eminent authority on such matters to give me the track position and year of all songs mentioned in this post.
I have another rant coming, but maybe I’ll save that to post in a few days so the masses stop a-complainin