my blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold....

OK, I was in a really shitty mood when I wrote 'Jobs'. Sorry.

So, last night when I was leaving work, that J. Giles band song - Centerfold - came on the radio.

That was the first radio song I ever paid attention to. I would have been...10 or 11... when did it come out? 1982. 11, then. I was in that phase where I was spending tons of time in the basement, cleaning stuff; washing things by hand and hanging them over the hot water pipes to dry. (You know, like how most 11-year-olds spend their time.) And while I washed and cleaned, I listened to the radio, which was something I'd never done before.

And I remember that song; I remember particularly noticing the second time I heard it. Not the first; then it was just one of a run of songs I didn't know. But the second time, I thought - wow, I know this song! And I sang along, and felt like I was being given the key to a secret club. A secret club of people who were in the know. It was cool.