Synchronicity

Josh Getzler

I’ve been having the funny feeling the last couple of weeks that I’ve been regressing back to high school. It’s not simply that I ALWAYS feel nostalgic this time of year, as the kids get ready to return from the summer. But this summer vacation has been filled with reminders of my days with big hair and long overcoats and bright yellow Walkmen.

 

 

 

 

First I read Eleanor and Park on the advice of the 12 YO, and it took me back to the Smiths and the Replacements and XTC (and bright yellow Walkmen); then last night we watched The Breakfast Club with the kids, and between the layers and overcoats and the Molly Ringwald Dance and Simple Minds I was back to Junior Year, wondering if I would also lose my soul when I grew up.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZINZmN1_GM

 

Tomorrow I’m going to Washington, DC for a couple of days of meetings and the launch of Todd Moss’s Golden Hour (had to get that in!), and I’m back to being a Congressional Page at 17, watching Live Aid and running around the Capitol Building in the roastingly hot DC summer. Then in the fall I’ll be seeing Sting’s new musical The Last Ship, and I’ll be back in my very enthusiastic high school band trying (enthusiastically!) to play So Lonely. And I just looked through the musical offerings in DC Thursday night. The Buzzcocks are playing a little club. The last time I saw them it was around 1988, and I was in college. And I just got my 25^th Reunion notice. My son just finished watching Weird Science while my daughter was listening to Marlene On The Wall.

 

All we’re missing is a Soviet Premier threatening to use Nukes…oh.

 

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Can't decide if I should cut and paste all the lyrics from Synchronicity here or just welcome you to your midlife crises ;)
Either way, I have a bizarre story about a bright yellow Walkman--I'll have to share it with you down the road!

PS Hope you're having a wonderful trip!