This is a really good album cover.

This was my favorite song for a while when I was 9.

It's still impossibly catchy to me.

"Goodbye to Roo-whoah-sie—
The queen of Corona!
Seein' me and Julio
Down by the schoolyard."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cs6U097kNQ

@hotdogsladies Flawless song. 10/10.

@hotdogsladies Kids today don’t even know what Kodachrome is. Damn shame. It’s catchy, too.

And yet, implausibly, this is now what I think of the instant I hear "Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfDIAZCwHQE

@agiletortoise Nobody likes to look back on the crap they learned in high school.

@Antichrista

It makes ALL children jump up and down.

@hotdogsladies a thousand times, yes. A perfect use of that song in a perfect love note of a parody.

@hotdogsladies Such a 70s lyric:

And when the radical priest
Come to get me released
We was all on the cover of Newsweek

A lot of influencers will take a careful photo of themselves looking attractive and then share that with people.

It's cool, because it allows them to reveal vulnerabilities about themselves in a way that they get to control.

So, in one way, it's an unusual new form of branding, but, ultimately, it's part of rich tradition of crafting and passing on personal artifacts that capture who we think we are at a given moment.

Anyways, here's my Spotify.

https://open.spotify.com/user/merlinmann?si=7391c63112a9488f

I have insanely good taste in music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YO7N2tFb0X8

"Don't you miss it.
Don't you miss it.
Some of you people just about missed it."

What an incredible time they had there for a while.

Nobody like ‘em.

@len I’m scared to ask!

I only just remembered my fake bio is currently a line from this song.

@hotdogsladies enjoying your E6 list, but curious about the lack of The Gerbils (my second favorite E6 group). Not your taste?

Scott Spillane’s contributions to ITAOTS were crucial to my fixation when I found that record. The Gerbils then bridge the gap to a brand of indie rock that consumed me in college (see: Weakerthans)

@Tender

I know them from a compilation I think. I'll check out more. Thanks!

@hotdogsladies I really miss good album cover photography. I mean, come on:

@hotdogsladies His performance was excellent in that scene

@pixel

What a master of tone and delivery.

Brady’s Bits:

We’re watching “Blade Runner” for Do By Friday, and I’m realizing that gives the opportunity to retell the story of trying to buy tickets when I was 15.

@hotdogsladies Huh. Saw this for the first time in a mall movie theater soon after it opened, right after turning 16

@hotdogsladies Which of the 5 versions are you watching? 😀

@hotdogsladies Always loved that song!

@hotdogsladies
Always amazed watching Adrian Belew play (wrestle?) the guitar.

@hotdogsladies “Nice place?”

@hotdogsladies Not that mother scratcher! Bill Parker!

@bjsimpson

THey're all interesting, but I like The Final Cut.

@chrisburdick

Something…𝒔𝙥𝒉𝙚𝒓𝙞𝒄𝙖𝒍.

“One adult for Blade Runner.”

—Merlin Mann (July, 1982; Age 15)

Just scrawl it on my forearm in Sharpie and drop me into the sea.

@agiletortoise @hotdogsladies This song goes through my head EVERY TIME I see an old photo from the 60s and 70s.

@hotdogsladies @agiletortoise Everything looks worse in black and white.

Every lyric in this song is classic. Or an overused high school yearbook quote. Or both.

@hotdogsladies I would pay to see this movie 😀

The great Glenn Gould.

Whom Jiminy Glick thought Steve Martin was named after.

Pulp. "This is Hardcore." *This Is Hardcore*, Island Records, 1998. Directed by Doug Nichol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUMqXWaF4Ac

@hotdogsladies Music videos used to be a real art form.

Also, nobody takes their hats off inside anymore

@ry

This video always blows my mind. Wide open.

Such ambitious filmmaking.

Van Dyke, W.S., director. *The Thin Man*. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, May 25, 1934.

Myrna Loy as Nora Charles
William Powell as Nick Charles
(n.p.: Asta as Asta)

@hotdogsladies Such a brilliant series of movies.

*Close Encounters of the Third Kind*. Columbia Pictures. Steven Spielberg, director. 1977.

@hotdogsladies it’s showing in theaters right now

Photo by your author. Bio via Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians.

"Said I'm a willow bending in your mind.
I'm a mirror cracked from side to side.
I'm a snow-covered mountain in an empty room.
I'm a house that burns down every night for you.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rdzalvb3co