Today's Track : Boy George - Karma Chameleon

I was sitting in my car today at a stop light and I had my window rolled down and for some apparent reason – possibly a mid-twenties crisis or something – I decided to crank my stereo super loud to attract as much attention as possible. You know, the sort of thing you did in high school as you rolled into the school parking lot in your parent’s station wagon.

There was this time back in high school when I was driving home for lunch in my parent’s Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme (sounds more like a taco than a car). I had this tape of this song that I was really grooving to at that time. It was “Runaway” by the Real McCoy and I had a 60 minute tape of the same song recorded back to back to back except in about 5 different remixes. The reason I had to tape it like that was because cars back then didn’t have cd players as standard equipment so I couldn’t just press repeat! So I’m on my way home blaring this song out of my car at decibels so loud that the sheer force would knock over old ladies crossing the street. I come to a stop light and these two hot Catholic school girls pass by my car and they yell, “That song fuckin rocks!!” and I yelled back, “Hell yeah it does!” and then they proceeded to dance right next to my car until the light changed to green and I drove away. It was for that brief moment that I truly felt cool.

So now that I’m 28 and I’ve got my own sports car with a cd player in it, you’d think that I’d be able to reproduce that moment.

Back to earlier today when I was at the stop light. I rolled down my window and cranked up my stereo (no old ladies around to knock over). So I’ve got Boy George’s Karma Chameleon blaring out my Mazda 3 and I look around and absolutely no hot Catholic girls around. No one around except a bunch of middle age people in cars looking at me funny. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to reproduce that moment as long as I live.