I want you all to listen to this, and I want you to watch it. The two actions are almost entirely different experiences.

I was sitting in a movie theater with Sean a while back, and we traded iPods for the 20 (actually, since it was Sean and I, it wasn't the 20 so much as it was the 45. Generally speaking, we're serious about our seats in the theater), and he told me to listen to it. I did, and I was blown away. I knew I had heard it before, but I didn't think for a minute that I had heard it in the late eighties. This song was fabulously ahead of its time.

I got it in my head yesterday, and since I don't have it on my iPod, I found the video on youtube. Wow, does that video change the song. When watching it, the very sound of the music changes, and becomes incredibly more dated. You're transported to 1988, thinking about 1988. But close your eyes? You're still transported to 1988, but you're thinking that this is what most music is going to be like in 10 years.

You'd be wrong of course, but I don't think Information Society existed in a world where Public Enemy sold so many record.