The 20 Something Society

Last week I was about to pop in my ear buds and listen to some tunes on my iPod – when I realized it had reset itself.   At first I was angry.  I mean, come on, there was so much music on that thing it was going to take me FOR EV ER to fill it up again.  But then I thought to myself, whatevs I needed to clean it out anyway.  As I was scrolling through our music library, I was looking in the Paul Simon section and my eyes stopped on ‘Kodachrome’.  As a photographer, this title stopped me.  What is this song about awesome vintage film?  The film that my favorite vintage images were taken on?  I pushed play and listened up.  I KNOW that song.  When the upbeat tune started I immediately knew what it was and it took me back.  I can actually be very specific about what it took me back to.  It took me back to when I was eight years and watching the movie ‘Coneheads’ OVER AND OVER AGAIN.  This song was in the movie.  But, when I was eight years old I had no idea what kodachrome was, so the lyrics never registered with me.  I have been listening to it non stop ever since then.  The lyrics just make me smile.  So here, listen to Kodachrome.  While you’re at it, look at these pictures I took of my baby boy last week.  I processed them to mimic Kodachrome film and I think I’ll do this much more often.  I hope the song puts a smile on your face as it does mine.

“Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah! ”