We were lucky to have XM Radio on this most recent road trip. As we drove around LA this song came on:

How can you not love the synth work in this song? I had this on a special mix tape marked “cool.”

Then this song came on XM Radio:

From the “Some Kind of Wonderful” soundtrack.
Which Helen (my high school BFF) and I would listen to repeatedly while sitting at the lifeguard station at Redondo Beach wondering if anyone was going to think we were pretty enough to date.

It kind of looked like this. Oh yes. So depressing.