Late to the party

So about a million years after all my friends freaked out about it, I finally really want to see Once. I think it was the Oscar performance of "Falling Slowly" that got me, even though I still think it's creepy that they started dating when Marketa Irglova was practically in middle school (or the Czech equivalent) and Glen Hansard was like 30. Anyway, I used to always avoid the song when I heard it on the radio, because the beginning sounds just like Smokey Robinson's "You Really Got A Hold On Me", which gives me flashbacks to my days on the high school speech team, and those days are really best left forgotten. But now I'm kind of addicted to it, and am currently listening to it for something like the eleventh time in a row.

I do this with songs a lot -- I'll like something and feel compelled to listen to it on repeat for days until I move on to the next song. Before "Falling Slowly", it was "Faster Than Cars Drive" by Kate Tucker & the Sons of Sweden, and before that it was the first single from the upcoming R.E.M. album (more on that later). Last semester I probably listened to Coconut Records' "West Coast" a few hundred times, but I think that was at least partly about being homesick and missing Afsheen.

I was about to write something about how I don't really know how normal this habit is, and then I remembered how freshman year of college, Emily and I would watch the "She's A Rainbow" iMac commercial over and over together. So I guess it's not just me.

Also, that commercial is still pretty awesome even if it does look dated now (remember when you could buy any item imaginable in translucent colored plastic?):

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[Afsheen]

We still have Afrooz's green iMac, if you want it.