The Walkman turns 30 this week. I was watching that movie The Wackness this weekend (had tons of walkmen/mixtape references). It is not a movie I recommend watching. It’s as if I was given the director’s cut of the movie. Except it wasn’t the director’s cut and there was definitely an hours worth of film that could have been cut.

Anyway, it’s a sad day when you watch a retro movie, and the main character in the movie is still younger than you. But, I must tell myself that I am young at heart.

I DIGRESS. Here’s an article about a 13 year old boy given a walkman by his father for a few days. The highlight of the article is that it took the boy 3 days to realize there was 2 sides to a tape.

http://tinyurl.com/mebjkx

I can’t really say for sure.  I know it should be awful. but I can’t help but think its supposed to be. A hype williams bling-type video? ron howard “making it rain”. I feel uneasy writing “making it rain” how f*cking akward  is it to see him do it. but still. it is kind of awesome. and until Jay-z drops some blueprint 3 tracks it kills me to say this the jam of the summer (so far).

P.S. if you cant see it, go here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYc875zkDxg