Old Wave

[The scene: Work this afternoon, Charlotte and I are alone. I'm in a sad, bad mood (holiday poverty, health issues). Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's singles collections are playing on the stereo, 'cause if you know I'm DJing, it's all '80s, all the time.]

[ME: I'm in a bad mood, and I don't think OMD's helping.]

[(Not that OMD are the Smiths or anything, but some of their early stuff, when not tinkly-winkly, was kinda plodding.)]

[CHAR: Yeah, it's kinda slow. Whaddaya got instead?]

[ME: How about the B-52's? Wild Planet?]

[CHAR: Yeah! Totally!]

[I put the CD in, "Party Out of Bounds" comes on, and I start bopping around the room, trying to force the mood-upswing. I look at the jewel case, and see the album's release date.]

[ME: This album's 25 years old.]

[CHAR: Oh, shit.]

["I'll give you prunes, I'll change your Depends..."]

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