And then something funny happened. The tiniest roly-poly pill bug crawled out from under the plaque and hurried its busy gray self across the granite surface.
“It’s Herschel,” Charles said. “Hello, old friend.”
PLAYLIST
“This Can’t Be Today”—Rain Parade (Words and music by Matt Piucci and Steven Roback)
“Too Late”—The Shoes (Gary Klebe)
“Suddenly Last Summer”—The Motels (Martha Davis)
“Private Idaho”—The B-52s (Kate Pierson, Fred Schneider, Keith Strickland, Cindy Wilson, and Ricky Wilson)
“She Talks in Stereo”—Gary Myrick & The Figures (Gary Myrick)
“As Real as Real”—The Three O’Clock (Louis Gutierrez and Michael Quercio)
“Down with Love”—Bobby Darin (Harold Arlen and E.Y. “Yip” Harburg)
“Colored Balls Falling”—Love (Arthur Lee)
“Dreaming”—Blondie (Debbie Harry and Chris Stein)
“Look Sharp”—Joe Jackson (Joe Jackson)
“The World We Knew (Over and Over)”—Frank Sinatra (Bert Kaempfert, Herbert Rehbein, and Carl Sigman)
“Find It”—The Carrie Nations (Stu Philips and Lynn Carey)
“I’m Insane”—Joe Cuba (Louie Ramirez)
“Who Are You”—The Who (Pete Townshend)
“We’d Like to Thank You, Herbert Hoover”—Annie, Original Broadway Cast (Martin Charnin and Charles Strouse)
“The Garden of Earthly Delights”—The United States of America (Dorothy Moskowitz, Joseph Byrd, and Ed Bogas)
“Voices Green and Purple”—The Bees (Tom Willsie and Robert Wood)
“The Beat Goes On”—Sonny & Cher (Sonny Bono)
“Song for Sunshine”—Belle and Sebastian (Stuart Murdoch, Stevie Jackson, Sarah Martin, Richard Colburn, Bobby Kildea, Chris Geddes, and Mick Cooke)
“Twilight Zone”—The Manhattan Transfer (Bernard Herrmann, Jay Graydon, and Alan Paul)
“It’s Us Again”—Steve Lawrence & Edie Gormé (R. Ward)
“Any Place I Hang My Hat Is Home”—Helen Merrill (Harold Arlen)
“Message II (Survival)”—Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five (Melvin Glover and Sylvia Robinson)
“Liar, Liar”—The Castaways (Dennis Craswell and James Donna)
“I’ll Be Back”—The Beatles (John Lennon and Paul McCartney)
“My Mirage”—Iron Butterfly (Doug Ingle)
“Apples, Peaches, Pumpkin Pie”—Jay & The Techniques (Maurice Irby Jr.)
“Then She Remembers”—The Dream Syndicate (Steve Wynn)
“Lucifer Sam”—Pink Floyd (Syd Barrett)
“About the Weather”—Magazine (Barry Adamson, Howard Devoto, John Doyle, and Dave Formula)
“Green Fuz”—The Cramps (Randy Alvey and Leslie Dale)
“Grimly Forming”—The Salvation Army (Peter Van Gelder)
“A Question of Temperature”—Balloon Farm (Mike Appel, Ed Schnug, and Don Henny)
“Video Killed the Radio Star”—The Buggles (Geoff Downes, Trevor Horn, and Bruce Woolley)
“Mr. Soul”—Buffalo Springfield (Neil Young)
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World”—Tears for Fears (Chris Hughes, Roland Orzabal, and Ian Stanley)
“Southern Scandal”—Stan Kenton (Stan Kenton)
