Yesterday, a chance comment of mine after hearing a piece on :NPR gave David a mind virus for the day; he had Ravel’s “Bolero” stuck on repeat in his head.

This morning, WXRT was doing their Friday preview for Saturday Morning Flashback with the time machine/wormhole schtick, and today the chosen year was 1984. The opening notes to Nena’s “99 Red Balloons” floated out of the car speakers, and on autopilot my hand reached out to turn the volume up.

Good times. Tried to sing along, but it was the English version and I wanted to sing the chorus in German. Now the song is stuck in my head, but at least now I can figure out which version to sing, and what the German version really means compared to the English one – they’re actually quite different.