Driveway to driveway drunk

E-word,

The AV Club had a feature called 'Music we can't listen to anymore', and the funny thing is for me I don't really have any. I have songs that are significant and remind me of bad times, but they still stay with me. I'll share one with you, and maybe you could do the same?

'Driveway to Driveway' - Superchunk

Right before A**a and I broke up, God, nearly 13 years ago now, she was 'talking' with a guy who made her mix tapes and was a friend of her cousin or something, just some really ridiculous stuff, man, not to go off on a tangent here, but 'love or whatever' blinded me to just the most obvious shit when I was younger. Shit's stupid. Stupid shit. Damn, I can finally look back with some objectivity and see how completely blind and naive I was without feeling incredibly shameful about it. Anyway, this guy made A**a mix tapes and stuff for her to listen to, and the other kind of ridiculous thing with relation to this is the guy was totally into indie rock. A**a showed me some of the mix tapes this 'friend' made for her, and one of them was a copy of 'Foolish' by Superchunk. This guy also made her a copy of a Saint Etienne album, but I never got into them.

Getting back to the point, I didn't really listen to Superchunk until after A**a showed me that stupid mix tape, and I actually totally fell in love with that particular cd. It was all so symbolic. I mean, my ex-girlfriend's future boyfriend (who was courting her while we were still dating) gives her a tape of 'Foolish' which is a album of break-up songs written by the band leader (Mac) about his break-up with the bassist (Laura) who is still in the freaking band.

'Glad I still have the scrapes to prove that it was me who fell.'
'My hand on your heart had been replaced, and i thought it was you that i had chased.'

I still love this record, and I still love that song.

Love,

Toe