Toe,
I won't say it again, but I had to put it in the title for today's post. The song list title for the
Feist song provides me convenient cover.
I was reading your post of late 2007, and I understand what you say about your unhappy childhood. I don't think I was especially happy either, especially in retrospect. Maybe before age 10, but even then, I remember just being bullied
alot and being really shy at school. I was kind of a geek even before there was a word for it, reading a lot, drawing pictures, living in my own world. Teenage years were even worse, in most ways, like the small
idiosyncracies of my childhood personality expanded, like some embarrassingly inappropriate adolescent erection, so that I almost felt too
embarassed to even leave my room. Gawd, it sucked.
I am sure we had different experiences growing up. Something tells me there's a similar theme there, though.
Are you extraordinarily sensitive? I think maybe you are. This may be something we differ in, because I am not sure that I am. Sometimes I think so, but most of the time I think I am kind of a clueless, somewhat cold person. I just don't know.
I loved the mix, man. Your song choices are terrific. I especially like the older songs, like the New Order, Replacements, and of course the
Pogues. The New Order especially was so good to hear, and brought me back to a drunk summer night in 1988. Many of the songs I have never heard. That Jens
Lekman song is insanely beautiful. But I love, love, love that Yo La
Tengo song. I had heard that on the radio and couldn't believe it was them.
You are a good man, and a good friend. I'll talk to you soon, man.
E-Word
