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Sunday, October 31, 2010

Música- How awesome is it that they play this in the club?

I was at a boliche on Friday night for my friend Gabi's party to celebrate completing her major. A boliche is what a dance club is called here, in the spirit of Us vs Chile vs Argentina, in Chile it is called a discoteca and in the US I don't know what it is called because I never go, my vocabulary stops at bar. Around 4:30 in the morning, running out of steam, the dj puts on "That Thing You Do" by the band formerly known as the Oneders. How sick is that, awesome thing about Latin America is that as far as music goes anything and everything is fair game. How did this get overlooked on the Mary Ann's jukebox and in our mod? (Little known fact: I used to own the soundtrack to the movie on tape cassette.)
People who I think would really appreciate the playing of this song:
- Bear
- Pat- (going out on a limb with this one)
- Jenny Driscoll
- Sabby

I like my posts to be somewhat thought provoking, so have you ever contemplated what would have happened to the Wonders if Guy Patterson never got to beat the drums and speed up the whole song? Most likely the band would have fizzled due to internal conflict and Guy would have continued to work in his father's appliance store eventually inheriting it, before passing it on to his son, but with the advent of Best Buy and the death of small business and Main Street, after a lot of mental anguish his son would eventually have to sell the business and space and move on to something less noble.


I also had a brief dance off to Thriller a little bit before this. Nobody saw that coming. When the song came on I though: WWJD- What would Jenny do? Fucking dance, that's what she would do. I obviously couldn't use my whole repertoire of moves because I was very limited by the fact that I couldn' t take my clothes off being in a public place with people I didn't know that well, although I did shed my first layer of shirt before sense overcame instinct.

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