Like a fool
Dear E-word and Jersn,
Well, I haven't posted on here in ages. I just started playing the album Foolish by Superchunk on Rhapsody (god bless technology, really) and it brought me back 16 years. I know this album came out in like 1993 or 1994, but I didn't listen to it until 1996 or so, but it hit me like a fucking ton of bricks. I just broke up with a girl I had dated for 5 1/2 years. The guy she ended up with was a 'friend' of hers who would give her mix tapes, and one of the mix tapes had this album on it. Pretty weird coincidence that this became one of my favorite records of all time.
I am constantly amazed at how times passes us by, and how essentially we stay the same person. I mean, I know I've changed and grown and have experienced pain and joy, but I'm still that same body, that same brain, with the same eyes that have seen years pass by.
But the years pass by and my brain is even foggier and I am even more exhausted but I have the same ears that first heard Driveway to Driveway 16 years ago, and those emotions are still raw, but eroded and softened by time. I don't have the time that I used to have to let the pain wash over me and then medicate that pain, only to let it wash over me again.
Love,
Toe
posted by Toe Jaleo @ 2:12 PM
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I can't describe how much I appreciate you listening to Superchunk when they mattered. The only story that I can even provide close to this is how I listened to "In Utero" a week before it was released on radio while I was driving home from orchestra camp during an ice storm. In high school.
Fuck.
On the other hand, '93 was a good year.
I wish my brain were foggier. If anything, because I'm cutting back on everything, it all seems so much more prescient.
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I find it odd that of all the places I've lived, DC is the only one I would willing move back to, in a heartbeat.
Cheers.
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