On the night Kamran finished the two-day New York state bar exam, he played me this video by The Pastels:
It’s a seriously great song, and I’ve been playing it over and over again for the past two days, so I decided I should just up and download the whole album this morning. So I go to my favourite BitTorrent site, and I find a copy of the 1987 single for that very song, “Crawl Babies”.
I also find this:
Isn’t that SO FUNNY? It reminds of one of the early Chuck Klosterman books and the way he talked about how sad it is that music videos aren’t being preserved. At the time I read it, YouTube was already in existence, and I kind of wanted to write to him and be like, “Did you ever think life would be this great in the 2000s, Chuck?” But then I remembered that I don’t have his e-mail address, because he never wrote to me to thank me for the completely awesome movie I bought for him.
And now this music video that was being called “very rare” has been viewed 168,000+ times on YouTube, 1,000 of them by me. The Internet is so great.
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This is the sound of my HS years.
Ahhhhhhhh, that’s great. The sound of mine is more like Alanis Morissette and Counting Crows, so clearly you got the better end of the deal.
Kudos to Kamran! I’ve heard the New York state bar exam is a BITCH. I hope you congratulated him heartily ifyaknowwhatImeanandIthinkyoudo.
By allowing him to take me out for nine courses of food and wine at the restaurant I’ve been begging him to take me to for four years? Why, yes, yes, I did.
Now that I think about it, I really kind of failed as a girlfriend last week on that front.
That was pretty much the exact same question I asked Chuck at that reading in Columbus the summer you gave him the movie! He embarrassedly acknowledged that YouTube made his argument from that essay obsolete and pretended to curse the Internet.
You know he’s secretly staying up all night every night to watch Motley Crue videos and re-live his childhood.
I’ll bet he’s only loosely aware of the Internet and stays up all night watching Motley Crue videos on VHS. He doesn’t even have a DVD player. Which explains why he never thanked me for Mannequin.
Is my computer a douche, or is your background white now? If it’s white, I hate it. And I hate you. Just sayin’.
Wait, really? It’s white. I decided maybe it would look more “professional” and that maybe people would like me more if I wasn’t all dark and emo. But of course I can count on you to like it gothy.