"You Can Have a Cell Phone and That's OK" by the incomparable Jonathan Richman.
Tonite
Dinner at my new Number One Burger Spot in the city, a Jonathan Richman show at Lincoln Hall, and a midnight screening of (an imported 35mm print [!!!] of) this gem at the Music Box. Doin' it UP. Y'all can't stop the Gator.
EDIT: I should add that I had LOBSTER for lunch. Everything's comin' up blah blah blah.
"They were wild, like the U.S.A."
Charlie Chaplin, 1916.
Jonathan Richman, 1970s.
Jonathan Richman at the Soft Rock Cafe, Vancouver, BC, 1983.
"When She Kisses Me" by Jonathan Richman, from 1996's Surrender To Jonathan. What a sweet little tune. The album has a bunch of re-recordings of earlier tracks, some of which I don't prefer to the original ("I Was Dancing In The Lesbian Bar") and some I do (this one.) Also has one of the best album covers of all time, which I now think may have inspired some of The Wiggles' get-ups.
Jonathan Richman, photographed by Alex Waterhouse-Hayward in 1984.
More from Mr. Richman. This is some seriously life-affirming shit, at least for me.
Gonna ride my bike past the root beer stand, purple squirt gun in my hand
Just play, people. Go play.