Okay, this is neither here nor there, but I wanted to say, officially, that probably nothing makes me feel like I'm 16 again more than "Kiss Off" by the Violent Femmes. Now, if I was drunk in the backseat of a beater driving through an orange grove at night, all would be complete (PS - thank god I'm not 16 anymore).
Also, my new favorite word is keening.
What's up with you guys?
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keening - as in lamentation? great word.
"kiss off" definitely marks a particular year of high school for me (the second one), though your post made me think of the strange effect the cranberries has on me - when I hear, say, "zombie" I feel 13 years old again, tagging along with my older friends, driving through Nashville and feeling very, almost comically, mature.
and the thing is, I've never owned a cranberries album. it's just that one night, a memory-sticking night, that's what was playing, and so I am transported. I think this is just the way.
and don't even get me started on love-making music. talk about transportation... :-)
The violent femmes played in my hometown in a cafeteria at the university of WI-LaCrosse. I went with my highschool boyfriend who as per usual was wasted (probably on southern comfort and kool-aid) and who proceeded to throw up all over the chairs and tables that had been pushed away to make room for the concert. He was walking and puking at the same time, as I recall. I wish I could remember what song was playing...(we had to leave in the middle). I believe he's a priest now.
HOLY SHIT
my new favorite word is smur.
it means drizzle.
nothing seems to encapsulate college more than slanted & enchanted and if pressed "summer babe."
i still know all those songs almost by heart.
high school is much more complicated for musical encapsulation.
weirdly the violent femmes remind me of junior high and this friend of mine who wasn't really a friend of mine and in fact liked to torment me physically and emotionally (once he held me down so his daschund could lick my face for 5 minutes straight: ust try to parse out the freuedian implications of that) but still was my "friend" based on the dynamics of association that junior high so ably foregrounds. but so he listened to them a lot or at least during summer camp.
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