"Nepal?" "Just north of India." "Asia!"
We're sitting around the kitchen table, listening to CATHERINE WHEEL while I help KERSTIN with her geography homework.I consider Catherine Wheel one of the most underrated bands from the 1990s. They were labeled as "shoegazers," and when shoegazing fell out of favor, apparently so did Catherine Wheel.
I love their 1991 single "Black Metallic." It gained significant airplay on "modern rock radio" back when there was such a thing, and the song would stick in my head for days after I heard it.
Catherine Wheel is providing a fun soundtrack for geography homework, in which 12-year-old Kerstin must place countries within their proper continent. I am mostly steering Kerstin from her guesses to the correct answer.
Kerstin: "Peru... is in Europe!"
Me: "When did they move?"
Kerstin: "They're not in Europe? Asia?"
Me: "They speak Spanish there."
Kerstin: "South America!"


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