So I was on my way home from work tonight and a song came on my Zune. Yes, I am one of the three people in the whole world who owns a fucking Zune. Get over it. Anyway, this song came on and I instantly got the chills. You ever have that moment when a song takes you so back to where you were at the time and you have to relive the moment? Of course you do, it happens to all of us.

The song was “Dare” by Stan Bush.  For those of you that don’t know, the song was featured on the animated Transformers movie.  I don’t know about anybody else but that was my favorite move for so long.  I had actually “convinced” my parents that I had to see it so that I would understand the cartoon (which was now using the movie continuity the sneaky bastards)  How could you go wrong with that movie?  The death of Optimus Prime (and countless other guys that you loved), the rebirth of Megatron as a more powerful villian. Orson Welles as Unicron, and the transformation (no pun intended – really, don’t beat me up) of Hot Rod into the new leader of the Autobots, Rodimus Prime?  The movie had everything, even curse words!  How cool is that?  Yeah, the music is a “little” 80’s, and by a little I mean overflowing with it, but so what?  It was the 80’s.

 I had briefly mentioned how much I loved the songs from the movie to the last girlfriend I had while in college, Jenny was her name.  Man, I have dated way too many Jennys.  We have our little couple Christmas shindig and lo and behold, she has somehow dug up the soundtrack from some bargain bin at Sam Goody or other specialty store that the Best Buys have all but made extinct.  I was so touched and amazed by her attention to the littlest comment that I had made months earlier that I then totally felt like a douchbag for the thoughtless gift I had given her.  Man, I really treated her like garbage and she didn’t deserve it, but that’s the funny thing about karma – it comes around.

So that song comes on my Zune (quit laughing) and I shit you not, I listened to it the rest of the way home.  Over and over again.  One little CD will go down in the history of my life as being the greastest gift I have ever received.