
The Excitement of a Song You May Only Hear Once
I recently listened to my sister’s Milwaukee radio mixtape from 1988: Dig if you will a 1988 bedroom: Ratt’s Out Of The Cellar album cover taped to the closet door, a guinea pig rambles the shag red carpet, a phone cord snakes beneath closed door, a skinny teen hunches over a boombox customized with purple and silver fingernail polish...