Cruising home from a friend’s place, driving the kids to school, rolling home on the highway, you smile softly and focus on the road as your head bops to the stereo.
Suddenly clouds cover the sky, the air gets heavy, and big drops start pitter-pattering your windshield. Snare drum staccatos fill your car’s cabin and you quickly flip on your windshield wipers.
But if you’re lucky this is when the groove starts grooving and your car starts moving as you notice your wipers are timed perfectly to the stereo beats. Yes, without even trying your rusty bucket’s become a pitch-perfect concert hall on the highway.
Hands clapping, fingers tapping, you click your turn signal on so a little high-hat and dashboard disco light join your dance party on wheels. With your body bumping and your brain buzzing your one-man jam band rocks out in the fast lane.
You sorta feel like George Harrison in that video where his desk drawers, grandfather clock, and wall-mounted deer all get into it and start shaking to the tunes. It feels like everyone’s coming together for this great big booming moment. You smile and laugh and sing a long as cosmic energy swirls and the universe gives you a little wink to let you know everything’s unfolding according to plan.
AWESOME!
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It doesn’t rain much here at all so it’s always a pleasure when my blinker syncs with my music. Perchance one day I will experience the awesome of the windshield wiper harmonies :)
Haha this was on MLIA.
I suppose this is awesome, but I’ve never experienced this. Then again, I like some strange music. Oh well.
Ha! I was hoping you’d include that video! Nice one.
Haven’t experienced this one, that I remember. Did get to drive on the highway at 2am the other day! Awesome!
AWESOME! Love it!!
Does anyone remember that Volkswagen Synchronicity ad from back in the late 90′s??
Thanks for sharing the VW video-
I totally thought of this ad when I read this awesome note.
hahaha i thought i was the only one who noticed this
That was fun when my radio worked. Good song by George Harrison on my must hear 80s songs list.
It always brings a smile when I read your awesome blog, even just the title. thx :)
Like Dana, reading this blog always makes me smile. Even when I feel like crap, I look forward to reading your awesomeness for the day. You make the world brighter for so many. Thanks!
Wow that what freaky. I thought of “I’ve got my mind set on you” before I even scrolled down and saw the video.
*was not what
haha this is one of my favorite things you’ve put on this site.
Wow! this is just spot on! I ‘ve had a many such moments and just love them, and when you crank up your wiper speed, and a new song starts with matching beats again! magic!
I’m loving this song!
The George Harrison video is fun, but this particular bit of awesomeness has an even better theme song: Eddie Rabbit’s soft-rockin’ truckers anthem, “Drivin’ My Life Away.” “Well the windshield wipers slappin’ out a rhythm, keepin’ perfect time with the song on the radio.” (Eddie yodels the “o” in “radio,” which really adds to the awesomeness, imho.) This dopey song is so catchy that I still—unwillingly—remember big chunks of lyrics 20 years after the last time I heard it. “Well a truck stop cutie, comin’ on to me, tried to talk me into a ride, but she was just a baby …” Stop me before I type the whole song!
So much fun if its Mika
You’ve really figured something out with this one. Seriously. This is awesome.
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THANKYOU.
This is the first time I’ve visited your site – and I’ve been looking through posts for the last two hours. I LOVE this song, and its so under-utilised!
disco lights with built-in laser x-y scanner are the coolest stuff that you can add to your disco room ;;:
I love that George Harrison song and the windshield wipers would most definately be in synch to a falling rain…
however:
…it’s not raining quite so fast over here:
One of the most awesome moments of my life :):) xxxx
Notice that she driving and taking a picture of her windshields dumb-ass
I was wondering if you knew just where I possibly could find the XML feed for this web site.
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