July 1996. Three records released then that still have an outsized shadow over my music collection: Fiona Apple’s Tidal, Sublime’s self-titled release, and the soundtrack to the movie Trainspotting. All three records made their way into my life through screens. Fiona Apple’s single Criminal seemed to air every twenty minutes on Mtv, Sublime’s What I Got appeared in a video compilation we got at my part time job, and Trainspotting, well, let’s just say I saw it in the theater more than once and leave it at that. I’m not sure there’s a throughline there other than the fact that, in July 1996, I was almost twenty-one and spending most of my summer playing volleyball and wondering when the future would start. It’s golf rather than volleyball these days, but I can still relate.