Wednesday, June 05, 2019

Retro Video of the Week: "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls

Thanks to work, kids, and, ugh, peyote (right, parents?!), I have been so swamped that I didn't have time for a Tuesday Top Ten yesterday. Tonight, I had a brewery run at Goose Island, so I can't think of a more appropriate song than "I Ran (So Far Away)" by A Flock of Seagulls.  Never before had a man with such weird hair sung a song about a man meeting a chick who's too hot for him, so he's not sure how to act, but then he sees Aurora Borealis, just before both of them are abducted by aliens.  It's a pretty obvious metaphor for post-Crimean War Russian imperialism -- and it's also pretty much exactly what happened to me tonight after I had the Bourbon County Coffee Barleywine.

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