Guitar tree

[cosmolinguist]

This morning on Mastodon I saw somebody say

15 years old: listening to Billy Joel authentically

26 years old: listening to billy joel ironically

32 years old: listening to billy joel authentically

and I realized that if you take about 12 years off of all those ages, the same is true of me and Bruce Springsteen.

So then naturally I had to listen to some Bruce Springsteen. I danced around the kitchen while I was making my french toast for breakfast.

Andrew woke up and came downstairs so I turned off the music when I sat down to eat. He was clearly still earwormed though, because he started singing the guitar riff from "Born to Run."

I laughed and said "You're actually pretty good at singing like his guitar! It's not like one of those things you think you're good at but I don't..."

"It's also the Blondie guitar sound!" he added helpfully.

"...Oh yeah," I said, thinking particularly of "Atomic." "I suppose that makes sense, they're sorta from the same kind of era..."

"And they're from the same geographical area!" Andrew said.

I laughed. "...Yeah I don't think guitar sounds evolve into local populations like that."

"There's a very famous guitar tree on the New Jersey turnpike," he told me very earnestly. I laughed a lot.

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[softfruit]

I prefer my guitars genetically modified, or "electric" in the common parlance :)