Picture it: Miami, 1987

"BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo" (bluemazda2) 06/04/2019 at 10:20 • Filed to: BMW M5, E28, You really are plumbing new depths this week, Laura Branigan, Procrastination

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After a long day at work in South Florida, you leave your cubicle and leave anything even remotely related to finance behind and go home for the night.

You walk to your car dreading what tomorrow brings; whether it’s endless meetings, conference calls with your boss and peers, or even a project due before 5 PM the next day.

You step into your car, a 1988 BMW M5, and prepare for the drive home from Coral Gables to your home an hour away in Boca Raton. The sumptuous Natur leather-clad bucket seats give you a reaffirming hug to remind you that your hard work has paid off.

As you merge onto I-95, you turn on the local pop radio station and hear the opening notes to a song. By 10 PM on a weekday, the roads begin to open up due to a light drizzle. The 1984 hit “Self Control” comes on the radio and you turn it up. At this very moment, all your worries and troubles seem to have gone back to stay the night in your cubicle. You have 40 miles of left lane beckoning the full force of the 255 hp S38 engine. Drop it down from 5th to 3rd as you leave downtown Miami and hit the truly open stretch of I-95. You’re alone in your own little world. It truly feels like a scene out of a movie. The next 5 minutes or so of your life are spent in a different world from the one you left your discounted cash flows in.

This glorious moment where cars and music help alleviate your pain and give you a small window of time to escape the stress is what we live for. I’m sure we all have those days where we just want to throw everything to the ground and give up, but it’s those brief moments of sheer, unadulterated joy that give us hope and the driving force to keep reaching our goals.

Am I currently procrastinating with a financial forecasting assignment on my desk? Maybe.

That’s not the point. Keep your head up. Look forward to that next moment you have that brings you some joy to help you get through your day to day life.

Thanks for listening.

HondoyotaE38: A Japanese and German Collab...wait a minute > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:30

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You lost me at I-95

adamftw > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:31

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This is good oppo. Even though, it isn’t fast , there are some days where that top end raspiness of the 5.3 in my truck makes at 5000RPM bad day just a little bit better.

WilliamsSW > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:33

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This is good Oppo.

Maybe in part because I work in corporate finance and used to have corporate ties to Boca, but still.

fintail > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:36

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Laundering drug money into 1980s Miami highrises was hard work.

I had this poster back in the day:

CB > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:40

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Thoughts like this are why my boss is being semi-successful with his “buy a Mustang” talk.

benjrblant > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 10:51

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this is the oppo equivalent of novelized erotica.

DaftRyosuke - So Long and Thanks for All the Fish! > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:00

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Something 

Highlander-Datsuns are Forever > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:09

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I would like to think in 1987 working in high finance I would be driving and sweating it out in a 930 slant nose.

Doing what I do now I would be driving in a 300zx.

Milky > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:37

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Why fantasize a life from a day long gone? Live your own fantasy.

Picture it: 2019 Detroit, you leave your job in the burbs, drop the top and turn on Summertime Magic by childish gambino. The stress melts away. Then you cross 8 mile, the highways in Detroit are somehow still not patrolled. You use every damn rev your slow ass Miata can give you. Some miles and many shifts  later you p ull into the driveway grinning, ready to do it all again tomorrow.

See? It’s easy.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > Milky 06/04/2019 at 11:38

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See, a decent chunk of that was taken from what my day is like.

I love driving the Passat home on 95 listening to 80s music.

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:45

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It’s like somebody took vaporwave and turned it into a slice of life novella.

Fascinating.

RallyWrench > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:45

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This is good. I hate my job but love my car, and my car has a tape deck. 

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:46

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Bro stop huffing the paint fumes

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > 2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered 06/04/2019 at 11:47

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1987 Miami and you think it’s paint fumes I’m huffing?

2Fast2Furious: Rotary Powered > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 11:51

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If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 12:06

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But when does the cocaine bender happen?

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 12:06

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+1 for the Golden Girls reference.

BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo > If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent 06/04/2019 at 12:30

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Yes.

OmerCarrothers333 > Milky 06/04/2019 at 12:52

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When I lived in San Diego, I loved to open the moonroof on my GTI, and crank some Eighties glam metal on the freeways as the was setting.

When I was in Monterey Bay, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath and Cheap Trick sounded sooooo good in my Mustang when I was cruising around Salinas, Santa Cruz, or San Francisco.

Synthwave, jazz-hop, and stuff like work strangely well in Salt Lake City; it was trial and error to find something that sounded right to me out here.  

OmerCarrothers333 > Highlander-Datsuns are Forever 06/04/2019 at 12:54

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You can’t fuck with Z31’s son. I’d go with the 280zx turbo in non-BLACK GOLD guise, with some basket-weave BBS wheels. But that’s just me.

Spanfeller is a twat > BlueMazda2 - Blesses the rains down in Africa, Purveyor of BMW Individual Arctic Metallic, Merci Twingo 06/04/2019 at 22:37

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Picture it: Mexico City; 2018.

You just kissed your goodbyes outside a close friend’s house. You get into your car, nervous, thinking about all the things that went wrong that evening. But then as you roll onto Periferico you realize that even if it’s 3:30AM, the second storey is open for some reason.

You heard a rumor a while back that the speed cameras can only catch you if you’re going between 80-120km/h. It seems like the best time to test it.