Take on me… (Take on me)… Take ME on…

… said the Joker to the Thief.

I like to move it, move it.

Does anyone remember Akon?

Old Godzilla was hopping around

Tokyo City like a big playground…

I once heard a Joni Mitchell song that was one of my college gf’s favorites, and it instantly teleported my brain to running across a lawn by her dorm to go see her on a random day after class. Her room was at the end of a hallway by the fire escape, so I used to go up the metal stairs at the back of the dorm. I was in my 30s but suddenly felt totally like my 20-yo self again. It’s amazing how much detail we store in our brains.

Arcade Fire - “Rebellion (Lies)” on Austin City Limits, 2007

.…everyday I’m shufflin’

🎶I will hold back tears

So I can move in the right direction

I have faced my fears

Now, I can move in the right direction🎶

This might help for the moment but in the end it doesn’t even matter

Simple and clean is the way that you’re making me feeeeeeeel tonight. 🎶

Y’all ever heard “Skunk Anansi - I believed in you”? Not that old but still a classic.

I do my very best, and that ain’t a lie

If you put me to the test, you’ll see me fly

Take a chance on me!

When I was young
I listened to the radio
Waiting for my favorite song
When they played, I’d sing along
It made me smile

Those were such happy times
And not so long ago
How I wondered where they’d gone

But they’re back again
Just like a long lost friend
All the songs I loved so well

Every sha-la-la-la
Every whoa-ooh-whoa
Still shines

Every shing-a-ling-a-ling
That they’re startin’ to sing
So fine

When they get to the part
Where he’s breakin’ her heart
It can really make me cry
Just like before
It’s yesterday once more

In a gadda da vida. Every 5 years or so.