on friday jess and i slunk up to the jukebox in the back of Grumpys. I think i might be biologically pre-determined to play a jukebox whenever there is one in the vicinity. i can’t resist– no matter how bad the selection might be, i simply have to play it.
so there jess and i stood in front of the jukebox at grumpys trying to decide which 6 songs were going to fill the ears of our co-workers. we flipped through the cds using the buttons. wondergeek john came by and quickly pressed in 9804 because he decided that since he’d played the replacements that he got to choose one of our songs. i hope his cracked rib heals.
anyway, we continued pressing when we stumbled upon iggy pop.
like my jukebox predilection i’m also conditioned to say IGGY POP! just like philip seymour hoffman as lester bangs does in “Almost Famous.” Jess laughed her head off. i’m hoping it’s because she recognized the reference and not because she thought i was a drunken buffoon.
* i know that lester bangs in “almost famous” was referring to the guess who, but it just fit. so there.
I was at a trendy used CD store yesterday and they played “Lust for life” and all I could think of was the fucking bank that used it in their ads. That is so wrong.
You heard the song and thought of the bank. The ad you heard has done its job well.