Where’s My Wallet, and How a Song Can Get Stuck in Your Head for 17 Years
Anytime I’m plotting another motorcycle trip out west, find myself looking over Eastern Arizona, and notice Winslow, I can’t resist picturing standing on a corner and a girl, my lord, in a flatbed Ford. I think everyone must do that.
Back in 1990 I saw a video that, for some strange reason, got stuck in my mind and never came unstuck. It was called “I Left My Wallet in El Segundo.” Stickmen doing the “Walking Man”, “ax”, “tomorrah”… something so very catchy about the video and the story it tells. Also I think of it anytime I hear mention of the town of El Segundo.
Tonight I ran across it on YouTube. Cool. Now I know where to find My Wallet as well as that girl in the flatbed Ford.
Check it out:
Jason said,
August 8, 2007 @ 1:31 am
Ha, now it’s stuck in my head. If it’s still running through my head in 2034, there’s only you to blame.
Will said,
August 9, 2007 @ 10:48 am
Hey Jason! Hope things are going well out there (you still in CA?). Yeah, it can get annoying for this to pop up every time you look for your wallet, but I guess it’s better than “this sh*t is bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S”… although now at least the kids can spell that word. Hmm, and thanks to Bobby Brown (and more recently, Brittany), they know the word “prerogative”. Pop music, expanding the young folks’ vocabulary.