(I Missed You) by Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories (named after the J D Salinger collection of short fiction) as the lead single from the Reality Bites soundtrack—included in the scoring after neighbour and friend Ethan Hawke heard the song and recommended it to the film’s director Ben Stiller—began a three-week run at number one on the US charts on this day in 1994. The below accompanying music video, that completes the piece’s status as an artefact of a very specific time—running over the movie’s end credits—was shot in Loeb’s New York apartment and features Hawke’s cat, Mardot, who also directed the video. So I turned the radio on—I turned the radio up.synchronoptica
one year ago: the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire (1806) plus assorted links to enjoy
two years ago: Klaus Nomi, the banners of the Akan people, Olympic trivia plus unworthy subjects
three years ago: more street photography, anime Spongebob plus some poorly translated Latin
four years ago: a Martian meteorite, highly agglutinative languages plus more on endlings, the last of their kind
five years ago: more links worthy of a revisit, the US Voting Rights Act (1965), Japanese terms for rain plus more computer cameos