1. My mind is routinely blown when I equate the distance of events from 2025 compared to things when we were growing up. I hadn't made the 80s night/2000s night connection yet. Though I did recently realized that me listening to the Beatles as a kid is the same time difference as my daughter listening to the Spice Girls.
2. Have you heard of The Earlybirds Club? This is my dream, and I need it to come to my city.
3. My husband and I broke into the Footloose dance at his work Christmas party last year and blew everyone's Midwestern mind. Apparently learning that dance is not universal!
4. Has The Hills made a resurgence in popular culture I'm unaware of?? That show immediately comes to mind when I hear the opening chords from Unwritten.
5. I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! Adding Deep Cuts (and The Antidote) to my Libby queue.
6. I had a recent experience similar to the DMV where I was stuck at a CVS for almost 2 hours. Sans kids, it was so peaceful and I also caught up on so much!
7. lol I totally forgot to respond to your last post about Harriet the Spy! My daughter and I listened to the audiobook last year and watched the movie. I remember thinking she was SO COOL as a kid, then walking around my neighborhood with a notebook trying to look into windows. This go round as a parent, seeing the level of bullying and then Harriet's revenge hit differently. I'm still conflicted.
Ange I'm so glad you commented because I was thinking about you and our Bourbon Street strawberry daiquiri debacle the entire night after that bouncer yelled at me. And I have so many thoughts on your thoughts! 1) You just blew my mind with that Beatles/Spice Girls comparison, 2) there's something similar coming to Minneapolis in July called "in bed by 10pm!" i think it's british because the description is "fancy going out for a dance but not keen on sacrificing the next day?" 3) I was thinking about polling whether people knew this dance/where they lived, because I suspected this was a regional phenomenon. D learned some version of it, though — so something exists here! 4) despite watching 400 episodes of the hills i 100% forgot that this was the theme song lol. 5) i think you will looooove deep cuts! im not sure how much i recommend the antidote though i did like it! 6) i remember the same about Harriet! And I wondered if my feelings were through a different lens b/c of not being a kid anymore — but it was D who really reacted first about how awful she thought Harriet was.
k this was fun, I feel like we're commenting on each other's livejournals again 🥲
HAH I haven't thought about that one in ages! Always a good growing up in Louisiana story. Ooh I'm so glad these middle aged ladies nights are catching on! Going on my short-term bucket list. That's good Footloose isn't completely regional! This year E learned the Macarena and Cotton Eye Joe in gym. I can't believe those have withstood the test of time. And speaking of all things 90s/2000s, has D been into American Girl books? E loves the mysteries and recently read some of the newer historical girls. Highly recommend Isabel & Nicki (1999) for all the nostalgia. Also enjoyed Courtney (1986), but it was HEAVY (Challenger explosion and AIDS). Oh and Raina has a new graphic novel out, The Cartoonist Club, that E devoured!
Excellent post. Is "Unwritten" popular now due to The Hills resurgence/ Spencer + Heidi popularity? To think people are going wild for it in a club in 2025 is... something. For my friend's birthday she picked a recurring NYC event called "Matinee Social Club" which is a party for 30+ people; we had to show our ID's to prove we were over 30. The party goes from 5-10pm, but the vibes still feel late night. And the question a woman asked me in the bathroom mirror when we were washing our hands? "Who does your botox, your forehead is amazing." (I was so flattered, and also sheepishly answered I haven't 'toxed.... yet hahaha)
I decided to actually google the Unwritten thing — I thought it was just because some guy's tiktok dance to the song went viral but apparently it's because it was in that Sidney Sweeney/Glenn Powell romcom??
lol that the bathroom compliments have evolved with age. I can't imagine a better compliment!!
"anyone over the age of 25 aside from my parents might as well have been invisible to me" <-- so true and so sad lol. Especially now that I'm on the other side of the invisibility.
Re: "Unwritten"--I have been very much enjoying its resurgence and I still go hard for it on my Peloton! All the instructors are playing it rn. (Also Maggie Rogers sang it on a karaoke stage at like an Adele festival (?) this summer and no one knew who she was but thought she was nailing it--I think this is hilarious.)
But I loved that song from the jump because it was associated with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie, which became my entire personality for the summer of 2005.
I can't believe I was so behind on the Unwritten resurgence!
A few months ago I drove a carful of ten year olds (not my own) somewhere and I truly, honestly, 100% felt invisible and irrelevant. I didn't hate it? But I also hated it.
I am also reading Deep Cuts right now and as I read this I was thinking how perfectly it goes with that book. Makes sense that you're reading it right now, too! This was a fun trip down memory lane.
Of course the song mentioned in the book that I’m most familiar with is hey ya, lol. I did happen to listen to the episode of the podcast Song Exploder about “our house” right before the book deep dives into that song and it felt like a perfect complement. Do you love the book too??
Haha yes same about hey ya. I’m loving it but keep having to stop, open Spotify to find the song they’re talking about, and listen to it. Gonna take me awhile to finish like this 😅
I have so many thoughts!
1. My mind is routinely blown when I equate the distance of events from 2025 compared to things when we were growing up. I hadn't made the 80s night/2000s night connection yet. Though I did recently realized that me listening to the Beatles as a kid is the same time difference as my daughter listening to the Spice Girls.
2. Have you heard of The Earlybirds Club? This is my dream, and I need it to come to my city.
3. My husband and I broke into the Footloose dance at his work Christmas party last year and blew everyone's Midwestern mind. Apparently learning that dance is not universal!
4. Has The Hills made a resurgence in popular culture I'm unaware of?? That show immediately comes to mind when I hear the opening chords from Unwritten.
5. I loved Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow! Adding Deep Cuts (and The Antidote) to my Libby queue.
6. I had a recent experience similar to the DMV where I was stuck at a CVS for almost 2 hours. Sans kids, it was so peaceful and I also caught up on so much!
7. lol I totally forgot to respond to your last post about Harriet the Spy! My daughter and I listened to the audiobook last year and watched the movie. I remember thinking she was SO COOL as a kid, then walking around my neighborhood with a notebook trying to look into windows. This go round as a parent, seeing the level of bullying and then Harriet's revenge hit differently. I'm still conflicted.
Ange I'm so glad you commented because I was thinking about you and our Bourbon Street strawberry daiquiri debacle the entire night after that bouncer yelled at me. And I have so many thoughts on your thoughts! 1) You just blew my mind with that Beatles/Spice Girls comparison, 2) there's something similar coming to Minneapolis in July called "in bed by 10pm!" i think it's british because the description is "fancy going out for a dance but not keen on sacrificing the next day?" 3) I was thinking about polling whether people knew this dance/where they lived, because I suspected this was a regional phenomenon. D learned some version of it, though — so something exists here! 4) despite watching 400 episodes of the hills i 100% forgot that this was the theme song lol. 5) i think you will looooove deep cuts! im not sure how much i recommend the antidote though i did like it! 6) i remember the same about Harriet! And I wondered if my feelings were through a different lens b/c of not being a kid anymore — but it was D who really reacted first about how awful she thought Harriet was.
k this was fun, I feel like we're commenting on each other's livejournals again 🥲
HAH I haven't thought about that one in ages! Always a good growing up in Louisiana story. Ooh I'm so glad these middle aged ladies nights are catching on! Going on my short-term bucket list. That's good Footloose isn't completely regional! This year E learned the Macarena and Cotton Eye Joe in gym. I can't believe those have withstood the test of time. And speaking of all things 90s/2000s, has D been into American Girl books? E loves the mysteries and recently read some of the newer historical girls. Highly recommend Isabel & Nicki (1999) for all the nostalgia. Also enjoyed Courtney (1986), but it was HEAVY (Challenger explosion and AIDS). Oh and Raina has a new graphic novel out, The Cartoonist Club, that E devoured!
Livejournal forever!
Excellent post. Is "Unwritten" popular now due to The Hills resurgence/ Spencer + Heidi popularity? To think people are going wild for it in a club in 2025 is... something. For my friend's birthday she picked a recurring NYC event called "Matinee Social Club" which is a party for 30+ people; we had to show our ID's to prove we were over 30. The party goes from 5-10pm, but the vibes still feel late night. And the question a woman asked me in the bathroom mirror when we were washing our hands? "Who does your botox, your forehead is amazing." (I was so flattered, and also sheepishly answered I haven't 'toxed.... yet hahaha)
I decided to actually google the Unwritten thing — I thought it was just because some guy's tiktok dance to the song went viral but apparently it's because it was in that Sidney Sweeney/Glenn Powell romcom??
lol that the bathroom compliments have evolved with age. I can't imagine a better compliment!!
I didn't realize that movie was that culturally significant lol
"anyone over the age of 25 aside from my parents might as well have been invisible to me" <-- so true and so sad lol. Especially now that I'm on the other side of the invisibility.
Re: "Unwritten"--I have been very much enjoying its resurgence and I still go hard for it on my Peloton! All the instructors are playing it rn. (Also Maggie Rogers sang it on a karaoke stage at like an Adele festival (?) this summer and no one knew who she was but thought she was nailing it--I think this is hilarious.)
But I loved that song from the jump because it was associated with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movie, which became my entire personality for the summer of 2005.
I can't believe I was so behind on the Unwritten resurgence!
A few months ago I drove a carful of ten year olds (not my own) somewhere and I truly, honestly, 100% felt invisible and irrelevant. I didn't hate it? But I also hated it.
I am also reading Deep Cuts right now and as I read this I was thinking how perfectly it goes with that book. Makes sense that you're reading it right now, too! This was a fun trip down memory lane.
Of course the song mentioned in the book that I’m most familiar with is hey ya, lol. I did happen to listen to the episode of the podcast Song Exploder about “our house” right before the book deep dives into that song and it felt like a perfect complement. Do you love the book too??
Haha yes same about hey ya. I’m loving it but keep having to stop, open Spotify to find the song they’re talking about, and listen to it. Gonna take me awhile to finish like this 😅
Important thing I just learned about!! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6ZN7YF1Kn24S2kaEGF5JOz
Gasp! Pressing play immediately.
This was great
Thank you! 💜