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i'm taking facebook's 30 day song challenge and posting here -- mostly because i figure no one on my facebook friends list cares, and also because i want to re-engage with my music, and this will be a good way to do it.
so, day 1: my favorite song.
it's weird, i guess. this song is completely about sex and drugs and nothing at all special about it. but i can listen to it on repeat in my car, it makes bad days better, it calms me down when i'm stressed or upset, and i can never ever be in a bad mood while i'm listening to it.
when i'm having a bad day, sometimes i'll drive around town a little, with my windows down and listen to this song over and over, so loud that other drivers turn and look at me funny, sometimes with disapproval, sometimes with a faint hint of oh hey, that was that song from the nineties. but it touches some part of me, some part of me that's made up of sunshine and sand and warmth and frivolity, and it soothes me where it touches. after twenty minutes or so -- or about as long as it takes to get from campus-downtown to my apartment, on an average day -- my tension has eased up and i'm smiling and singing and dancing in the driver's seat and generally making a fool of myself. these are things that are important, to me, in a favorite song -- having it as a go-to, when things suck.
so, day 1: my favorite song.
it's weird, i guess. this song is completely about sex and drugs and nothing at all special about it. but i can listen to it on repeat in my car, it makes bad days better, it calms me down when i'm stressed or upset, and i can never ever be in a bad mood while i'm listening to it.
when i'm having a bad day, sometimes i'll drive around town a little, with my windows down and listen to this song over and over, so loud that other drivers turn and look at me funny, sometimes with disapproval, sometimes with a faint hint of oh hey, that was that song from the nineties. but it touches some part of me, some part of me that's made up of sunshine and sand and warmth and frivolity, and it soothes me where it touches. after twenty minutes or so -- or about as long as it takes to get from campus-downtown to my apartment, on an average day -- my tension has eased up and i'm smiling and singing and dancing in the driver's seat and generally making a fool of myself. these are things that are important, to me, in a favorite song -- having it as a go-to, when things suck.
