AR closes the distance between Long Island and the SoDa

"I'm from Long Island, and it's the suburbs. And when you're from the suburbs, you hang out in parking lots a lot. And then I moved to the city, and people were just in awe that I grew up hanging out in parking lots, because it's kind of stupid. But there were all these parking lots that we hung out in every night [laughs], probably because I skateboarded a lot too. But it was like "Well, which parking lot are we going to go to tonight?" And you kind of just stand there and don't do shit or cause trouble and do what you do, and then you go home-- It's kind of trying to capture weird things like that. That's what I think about when I remember high school: I know I skateboarded a lot, and most of the time I was in some weird grocery store parking lot or something like that. It seems like a mundane thing, but at the same time it stood out as special. I hung out in parking lots. For like, years and years and years. So there's got to be a song in there somewhere."

Universal themes are not the bugaboos your English profs alleged.