Seven Red

So Zach and Miri Make a Porno had one scene that depicted a high school reunion, and they played about a 4 second clip of Len’s “Steal My Sunshine,” a kind of classic summer pool party/beach song from 1999. You know you sang along to it in your car in 1999, so don’t even bother lying. Damned if the song hasn’t been on a loop in my head for the past four days as a result. I tried the Universal Earworm Erase Program (those classic couple of bars from Ironman), and it isn’t working. “L-A-T-E-R that week” is simply too powerful a lyric. And here’s the bad thing: I’m not sure I want it to go away. It’s mildly pleasurable. I’m even starting to justify its profundity, noting that the first verse ends with a remarkably Nietzschean sentiment (“Of course you can’t become if you only say what you would have done…”) . I’m starting to wonder if I’ll be like that guy who had the hiccups for 60 years: is this only the beginning of a lifelong “Steal My Sunshine” earworm? Will it go on forever? And what kind of person will I be if it does? I won’t link the video, not being in the business of subjecting you to this oddly pleasant torture, but I do feel I have to share this experience, maybe as therapy. DO NOT go look it up on YouTube to hear it. You’ll regret it.

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