Oh, my poor neglected blog. I'm like a kid who ditches an old toy when given a new one. Except that new toy was working full-time again. Whattayagonnado?
It will never cease to amaze me how seasonal and memory-flashback inducing music can be for me. I put on "Dookie" by Green Day and I'm in fifth grade again driving down Ruston Way with my mom on an impossibly warm Northwest summer evening. I hear the Green Album by Weezer, which I just now realized is 10 years old (fuck!), and I'm instantly back in high school in Spring of 2001, driving around Puyallup just blasting that record. I throw on "The Only Reason I Feel Secure" by Pedro The Lion and I remember what a mopey little depressed dipshit I was during my freshman year of college. I put on "Panopticon" by Isis and I suddenly miss stroking my gigantic and gross red beard I used to have and have flashbacks to filing used CDs at Everyday Music. I hear "The Eye of Every Storm" by Neurosis and I feel a chill in my bones as I recall trudging through various snowstorms in 2008.
Anyways, Summer is finally here in the Northwest and I just wanna listen to upbeat music, hang out with friends, go swimming, drink good beer, watch baseball and feel content.
And I want to say rest in peace to one of the kindest people I've ever known, my Aunt Joy Christine Barnes. She lost her battle with lung cancer last week after fighting it for 4 years past the initial diagnosis. She made the most of those 4 years, that's for damn sure. I just returned from her funeral in Southern Maryland, which was one of the saddest, yet profoundly uplifting experiences I've ever had. A lot of people are missing Joy right now and I'm one of them.
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