Distracted, diluted, and delighted

Well, this didn’t go like I thought it would.

I was working on my first “official” wristwatch post—the first of a series, coming Real Soon Now—and I got “Europa and the Pirate Twins” by Thomas Dolby stuck in my head. So it was off to YouTube to have a look at the video. Wow, I still love that song. So then I followed links to this ’80s video and that, and just had a hell of a good time, ‘cept now I’m a skosh too schnockered to do the first watch post justice.

So it will have to wait. Hell, for all I know what I have so far sucks anyway. I’ll have to check in the bright morning light, gnome sane?

Yeah. So.

It is exceedingly rare that a song from my beloved formative decade falls out of my consciousness—particularly one that I liked. If you said “Irene Cara,” I could have summoned “Flashdance,” “Fame,” and even “Break Dancin’,” but for whatever reason, I had lost a ready handle to this one. It was linked from another video I was watching, and it was such a joy to get reacquainted with this oh-so-’80s anthem of adversity.

Don’t you love the heavy guitars and the layered synths side-by-side? Don’t you miss that? And man, wasn’t she gorgeous?

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