For most people in the US, this is a day off. For most academics in the US, this is already summer. Not so for us– we’re on trimesters, so we’re still in session, and have classes scheduled. This tends to undercut the solemnity of the occasion.
There’s also an Admissions event today, and then I’m having a class over for dinner, so I’m going to be pretty busy. In addition to being a solemn official holiday, this is also the semi-official start of the sumnmer season, so I thought I’d acknowledge that aspect with a little pop-culture thread…
Stretching the Memorial Day theme a bit, these are all songs from my past, in guess-the-lyrics format, shuffled by iTunes. The rough date range is 1980-1990, though I’m not terribly confident in that. At the least, these are songs that I associated with the mid-to-late 80’s, and they were mostly popular, so there’s no reason they shouldn’t be easy to guess (except for a few where the lyrics are so exceptionally dumb that I had to go with something cryptic).
Here we go:
- I’m between the poles and the equator, don’t send a private investigator to find me please.
- I’ll say that you’re right if you’ll say that I’m right/ Let’s hit the hay and call this case closed.
- I can’t get any rest, people say I’m obsessed
- We’ll take your car, yes we will, take your car and drive it.
- Every single meeting with his so-called superiors is a humiliating kick in the crotch.
- She bitched so much, it drove me nuts, and now we’re happier this way.
- Now no-one’s knocked upon my door, for a thousand years or more.
- Stop walking down my street. Who do you expect to meet?
- If you’re out of luck or out of work, we could send you to Johannesburg.
- Some other fool across the ocean years ago, must have crashed his little airplane
- She put her hand in my pocket, I got a keepsake and a kiss
- Oh, look what you’ve done to this rock-n-roll clown.
- You’ve got your nuclear boots, and your drip dry glove.
- Poor old Johnny Ray sounded sad upon the radio, broke a million hearts in mono.
- Who’ll be my role model now that my role model is gone, gone?
- Though I respect that a lot, I’d be fired if that were my job, After killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts
- Hey you! Who said that? Baby how you been?
- And now you find yourself in ’82, the disco hotspots hold no charm for you.
- There is water at the bottom of the ocean.
- You’re kidding! I must be, the Bahamas are islands.
- If you should ask then maybe they’d tell you what I would say True colors fly in blue and black, bruised silken sky and burning flag.
- Welcome to your life, there’s no turning back, even while we sleep, we will find you.
- These last few weeks of holdin’ on, the days are dull the nights are long.