You know what's cool? Cool is liking stuff because I actually like it. Like 70s music. I like 70s music because 70s music is big and brash and has synthesizers and flourishes and was glam and powerful and sort of messy, the way I picture the 70s themselves. I have to picture the 70s, instead of remember the 70s, because I turned 11 in 1980, so my memories of the 1970s are limited to:
1. My mom crying when Elvis died.
2. Hostages in Iran, which I think took place in the 70s and ended in the 1980s.
3. Shorts with stripes down the side.
4. My neighbor, Paul Barquist, having a "Skylab" watch in which he sat on his front lawn with an umbrella.
That's it for actual memories of the 70s but I absorbed a lot of the spirit of the 1970s. Which is why I like song 42,
which is "Small Beginnings," by "Flash."
And which is why I actually like it, instead of pretending to like it so people will think I'm hip and ironic, like some people.
Also, when I went to type "Small Beginnings" into the Youtube search, my right hand was misplaced but my left wasn't, so it came out: "snakk begib..."
Hence the title.
Also-er, wouldn't "Hence The Title" be a good title for a book? I'm not sure what kind of book, but I think it should be the title of a book.
Also-est: Those shorts are not me. Just a picture I found. Not me.
Down...to go = Me + the music on my iPod + what I think of when I listen to the music on my iPod. Read song 41 here.
Nostalgia:
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