Crucial Track for November 25, 2025

"Closing Time" by Semisonic

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Share a song that makes you want to call an old friend.

I've told this story a million times in different settings, but in my late teenage years (or maybe barely twenty) my friend Mariana and I were really close for a few months while cruising through early-adulthood drama. We used to go out after school, in the evenings, in her car.

The car didn't have a stereo, so she would prop up her laptop in the back seat and shuffle all of her MP3s on Winamp. That instance of Winamp LOVED "Closing Time" by Semisonic. It came up constantly, and eventually it started cracking us up every time it began playing it.

Anyway, I should text her.