Music is a real sensory thing for me. Certain songs bring out memories in me even if I'm hearing a song long after the event occurred. It's like when you randomly smell something and your brain becomes flooded with different dates and times and memories. Every now and then I'll hear a song that will bring out multiple things from various events over the years. Most recently it's been Young Blood by The Naked and Famous. I've mentioned this song before, but there's just something very Teen Anthem-y about it that makes me remember things.
The youthful wildness about this song and the video that reminds me of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros work is the perfect driving in your car late at night with the windows down song. The melody and the lyrics remind me of so many things:
- Riding my bike over to Conshohocken Ave at 2am and going through the park even though there aren't any street lights and being scared of hitting a pothole, but at the same time excited to be doing something that would worry my mother.
- Searching for Willings Alley in the city on the night of Black and White with Marg because we couldn't get tickets and then taking the last 38 back to the CP.
- Being told "if I actually wanted to date someone I'd probably be dating you,"
- Hiking up the side of a mountain through a stream because it was too hot to stay on the trail.
- The time Marg tried to cheer me up when I was on crutches and she stole a clay head and we named it after one of our philosophy professors. *A hint: He lives on Athens Ave.
- Smoking cloves outside during the blizzard with Marg and wearing Karrie's Christmas blankets instead of coats to keep warm and then getting locked out of the house.
- Studying for physics finals in lab at all hours of the night and then going on a cupcake hunt on the chemistry floor.
Thank My Hebrew Friend for pushing me to write and not letting me fall of the blogsphere like I try to.
