I walked into a cafe this morning, and blaring out of the speakers was an 80s song I had almost forgotten: Joe Jackson’s Stepping Out. The song didn’t have much of an impact on me when I was a teenager. It was far too mellow for my tastes then. But where the song really came to be a favourite of mine was while I was playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, a game I loved, but never finished. And I never finished the game, because the soundtrack was so good. I’d get into a vehicle in the game, start driving and the radio stations would play amazing music, and I’d just want to keep listening. So the game became just driving around listening to the radio. And Stepping out became one of my favourites for driving. And when I walked into this morning’s cafe, that feeling of just driving through the fictional city of Vice (the Miami of the video game world), and immediately, I’m smiling.
Good start for the morning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8kx8UgxFBI