JoJo

Every time I hear this song I think of John because he liked it, especially the chorus where the teens yell LEAVE. He listened to top 40 radio a lot and had a habit of calling me when a song he liked was playing, and he'd say nothing but just let the music play and then hang up. There was always a back story, like this one was one that he said his niece Emily (who was around 14 at the time, I think) liked. He had visited El Paso and came back knowledgable about the teenage ways. And he was so awed and sort of concerned that his little niece was growing up and the songs she liked and Jojo. He was like, "que sabe esta jojo de esas cosas?" but he grew to like the song and would sing it and would put his hand up to me and tell me at work Get Out, just so that I could respond LEAVE! and we'd laugh. every time i'd hear jojo on the radio i'd call him, even recently. and hang up. cabron.

this probably doesn't make much sense to other people but you know how you and people who you're close to develop these weird little habits that are one-on-one and no one else gets or thinks is funny. i think john had lots of those private jokes with people. those are the best kind.