Added to my playlist!
I love this song. It has had tremendous impact on me. It somehow just takes the pressure off, especially in moments where you are stressed, depressed, or anxious.
Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
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Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#22I've never heard the original, but i remember my had occasionally listening to the (Australian) parody Not the Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4 when i was a kid. The line "never go to Adelaide - it's a hole" is stuck in my brain.
There's also "No Sex (In the Champagne Room)" https://youtu.be/j9yBPcn8IqU
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#23I've never heard the original, but i remember my had occasionally listening to the (Australian) parody Not the Sunscreen Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YwqFz14xY4 when i was a kid. The line "never go to Adelaide - it's a hole" is stuck in my brain.
> never go to Adelaide - it's a hole
It's funny because it's true.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#24Original column by Mary Schmich: https://www.chicagotribune.com/columns/chi-schmich-sunscreen...
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#25Mary Schmich is awesome. I enjoyed her columns in the Chicago tribune
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#26Do not ready beauty magazines, they will only make you feel ugly.
More true than ever in an Instagram world.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#27In high school before I had even heard the song on the radio, we went on a field trip to local pharmaceutical lab. One of the chemists there had printed out copies of the lyrics for us from an email that had it mislabeled as being from Kurt Vonnegut. That was during the era where people of a certain age, even a scientist in a chemistry lab, would believe anything sent to them in an email.
Ah yes. Chain emails were where meme-like disinformation used to spread before Facebook made it even easier. At least I don't have people forwarding garbage into my inbox anymore.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#28In high school before I had even heard the song on the radio, we went on a field trip to local pharmaceutical lab. One of the chemists there had printed out copies of the lyrics for us from an email that had it mislabeled as being from Kurt Vonnegut. That was during the era where people of a certain age, even a scientist in a chemistry lab, would believe anything sent to them in an email.
Ah yes. Chain emails were where meme-like disinformation used to spread before Facebook made it even easier. At least I don't have people forwarding garbage into my inbox anymore.
Count yourself lucky. FWIW these are still a thing in older crowds.
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#29Keep old love letters
Re: Mary Schmich's “Wear Sunscreen”, which turned into an unlikely 90s hit (2019)
#30The words "do something every day that scares you" had a tremendous impact on my life. After a bad breakup, I decided that those were important words and that I needed to make an effort to get out of my comfort zone. So I wrote down a long list of things that scared me, all from eating weird foods, talking to strangers to traveling to new places and starting companies, and I started deliberately doing them. That beca…
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