A few weeks ago, there was this strange confluence whereby it seemed like everyone around me was having a Simon and Garfunkel renaissance: MK and his friends spent one drunken evening in Brooklyn elaborating on Paul Simon's myriad talents as a songwriter, while that same day JB and I couldn't stop waxing poetic about S&G's song America, which crescendoes to the very-funny-to-me, very-poignant-to-JB line, "...Counting the cars on the New Jersey turnpike / They've all come to look fooooorrrrrr Aaaa-merrrrr-ica!" The following day at work MK and I started our own conversation about the song, giggling about "I said be careful, his bowtie is really a camera..." In other words: S&G, they're good times -- nothing particularly hip or cool about them (and that's a good thing), and really just nice to listen to. And heck, they bring people together!
Leave it to the Maoist International to educate us otherwise.
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