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Thursday
23 Sept. 99

 

11 44 am edt
The collabs are calling me again...

This month's On Display collab topic is:
"Write about a song that means something personal to you."

There are so many I could pick, and one that stands out in my mind is Summertime, my mother's favorite song, but I will go with A Long December by Counting Crows [music video, mp3].   It isn't "my type" of song at all, but there was a time when it was always on the radio, and that time happened to coincide with a pinch of drama in my Sam situation.   The lyric that hit home was:

If you think you might come to California... I think you should

This was of importance, because my relationship with Sam partially (or as I remember it, mostly) fell apart because he moved back home to Chicago.   He was supposed to return to California after a year (or was it a semester) but he never did.   I don't think he's even been back to visit.

I don't know when we heard it, but listening to the mp3 now reminds me of having Sam driving me along the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH) late at night in the summer.   There was one week in the summer when he came and stayed with me.   I can't believe that was so long ago.

And it's one more day up in the canyons

This line reminded me of my home in LA, because I live in the canyon between Malibu and the Pcific Palisades.   The song just had so many references in its lyrics to things that gave me an emotional response.   Somehow it became a pseudo "our song" for Sam and I.   I had actually forgotten about it until I saw him in August, and when he reminded me, I requested it from the DJ and got all teary eyed with nostalgia.   I surprise myself when I get so sentimental.

1 08 pm edt
Matthew and I don't have "a song" per se, either.   On our first date I made him dance to a techno song in the parking lot.   I didn't know what it is called, but its only lyrics are "around the world" so that is what I have always called it.   That is its name.   The song always makes me think of him, but it isn't romatic, so we need to come up with something else eventually.

The only person I really had "a song" with was my short-lived boyfriend Mike.   Our song was Lady in Red by Chris DeBurg, but I sort of appropriated that song into my relatonship with mr. deletia.

2 14 pm edt
In my mp3 hunting (for links for this entry) I came across this great mp3 which is called Asshole Son and is a spoof of Blackhole Sun by Soundgarden.

 

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