I feel like saying "Hey, I'm walkin' here!" in an over-the-top New York accent has been so divorced from its origin that people don't know what it's from anymore. Which, I'm not shaming anyone for referencing something they're not familiar with, that's a normal thing to do. But for most of my life I always assumed it was probably from some mobster movie or something and not a touching queer drama about a man losing the last vestiges of both the cowboy myth and his own innocence. It's like if one of the most quoted lines of all time was a throwaway from My Own Private Idaho that became the stereotype of all Idahoans. They named a muppet after this movie.

the version of you from five years ago would be genuinely amazed by what you’ve handled since then. sit with that for a second