2013! I'm living in Williamsburg Virginia and driving home from the grocery store listening to the college radio station and this weird song is on with this guy kind of talk singing about an ice cream man and it sounds sort of off but in a fun and catchy way. Get home and look up the name of the guy and listen to the song a couple times and proceed to forget about it entirely!
TWELVE YEARS LATER
2025 I'm in the climbing gym on Monday and a weird bouncy song is playing and it's some guys going 'dum de dum de dum doo la day ooooo New England" kind of thing over and over again. It's the kind of song that's hard to find again because the only words are 'new england' and the rest is just kind of noises. It's a fun song and I don't really bother to look it up.
Wednesday of the same week AKA today! Seemingly unrelated I remember the weird ice cream man song from twelve years ago and look up 'ice cream man lyrics college radio'. I don't know why I added college radio I just thought it might help and it kind of did because I found the song and the guy and his name is Jonathan Richman AND!!! AND!! HE'S ALSO THE GUY WHO DID THE NEW ENGLAND SONG!
I haven't thought of this guy in over a decade and then I hear a song that I don't know is by him and then two days later I look him up again.
Something I love about music is that you retain and are aware of so much more than you're consciously paying attention to.
It's that stew of consciousness. What's in there swirling around and bubbling up? You gotta investigate the stew. You gotta let it simmer.
I mean, just look at this guy: he's a sweet boy Singing his little song with his floppy hair and his striped shirt.
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