Dream machine

mashatupitsyn:



Downstairs in the laundry room, and no one is there. Thank god. I get to just do my chore in peace. A little radio whispers on a shelf. I’m near it. A boy, 19, the same age as Lloyd Dobler in Say Anything, calls up a radio station and tells the female DJ that he wants her to play a song for the woman he loves. The song is called “In Your Eyes.” The woman asks him a few questions on the air. Like: Why do you love her? He says: Because we’re always there for each other. Because she’s my best friend. And the female DJ, who’s in her 40s or 50s, tells the boy: I wish I’d had your wisdom at 19. I spent most of my life thinking there were the nice guys and the gorgeous and funny guys. And I wanted the gorgeous and funny guys. And it wasn’t until after many years that I realized that just looking for gorgeous and funny is not love. The boy says: Thank you. Then the DJ plays the song. And since there’s no one in the room, and since Say Anything is a movie I love, and since Lloyd Dobler is a boy I love, and since I know all the words to this song, and since I’ve been singing them for half of my life, and since this is really what I need to hear right now, I turn up the volume and sing the song out loud.