Old Enough to Forget

As a kid, Simon & Garfunkel were done right around the same time The Beatles broke up. I knew many of their songs, of course. I loved music, and my little radio was a lifeline to happiness. Still, the music that would really start to get into my musical DNA arrived in a big way for me when I was around 10 years old. This was a magical time; it seemed like every other day there was a song that became my new favourite. Some songs, of course, would get lodged deeper than others. I wasn't looking back, I was living in the moment. One of those "new" songs was "Kodachrome" that came out in 1973. It was catchy and all, but really what sealed it for me was singing along to the opening line, "When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school ..." It was awesome, and it had the word crap in it. This was the same guy who sang about Julio who apparently was down by the schoolyard. I didn't consider myself a huge Paul Simon fan, and aside from the ...