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When I was in high school, a popular kid (who I didn't know nor was even aware of) died in a car crash or something, and my geometry teacher, in some attempt to deal with the student body's anguish or get us all to think about how limited our experience really is in this world, played Pink Floyd's "Time" in class.

Now, I'm not a fan of Pink Floyd. I have none of their albums. I will admit that a couple of their songs are kinda cool, but I would never put them on on purpose. But for some reason, this song lingers in my brain, and I find myself singing it aloud when I'm bored quite a lot of the time, you know, when I actually am frittering and wasting the hours in an offhand way. It sort of seems like the theme song of my life sometimes, which is funny: a band I don't even paticularly like providing the soundtrack to my life.

I wonder sometimes if it's because that geometry teacher, and her belief that playing a 15 year old Pink Floyd song in class would have some sort emotional significance, somehow programmed my brain to believe exactly that, and that possbilility really irritates me. Because I don't to be the sort of guy that shuffles around singing the lyrics to Pink Floyd songs that he doesn't even really like that much.

Then again, sometimes I sing "The Night Chicago Died" to myself, which is a song that absolutely nobody in their right mind is a fan of.

But I can't really be held responsible for that one, either. It's all Jack Black's fault:

 

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