During my latest round of job-hunting, I noticed on craigslist that the Gap was hiring. “Oh god,” I thought, “remember when you had to work there in high school?” I was inspired to write this.
That post (and if you don’t read that blog, you should, cha) tangentially reminds me of the summer of ‘06, when I worked as a dishwasher/shrimp peeler at Ragin’ Shrimp. The music in the kitchen was usually picked from the one, half-empty CD wallet, and was usually Drowning Pool or Techno (the first day I worked, a cook was playing Godspeed You!Black Emperor, which was delightful for me, but sort of inappropriate for kitchen work), played nonstop.
There was one day, though, when the radio was turned on. Over an eight hour shift of listening to Top 40 Radio, we heard Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy” not one, not two, not three, but nine times. I mean, it was Summer ‘06, so I and every other human with a pulse was into that song, but nine times? That’s even more times than you were likely to hear “Hey Ya!” in ‘04!
Maybe it was an Albuquerque thing? But I doubt it— that song (and Hey Ya!, too) was one of the ones that seemed to turn into wallpaper.
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circlingskeleton reblogged this from maviswillsaveus and added:
think that wallpaper would have to be...smiling, shining, perfectly straight set
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maviswillsaveus reblogged this from circlingskeleton and added:
I want to see what “Crazy” would look like as wallpaper, don’t you?
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