
That’s me with a Jane Wiedlin record that I got for Christmas the year it was released. (Photo by Roo)
“Maybe we should have paid more attention to Party Girl,” Roo said.
We were three, maybe four, hours into cataloging my record collection. Mary, Parker Posey’s character in the movie Party Girl, made it look easy. It is not. She Dewey Decimalized her DJ pal’s collection with a sort of meticulousness that I have never been able to achieve. My recent move was a golden opportunity to finally attain the perfectly organized collection. Once again, though, this was devolving into a personal failure. I was sliding across the living through floor between crates of records asking Roo questions like, “How should I categorize Simply Red?”
Roo laughed. Guffawed might actually be a more accurate term.
“Which song?” he asked in return.
“‘Holding Back the Years,’ of course.”
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