the spirit demons that haunt me are faceless men in black suits and baller hats
their limbs are thin and long, they hang over me in my sleep
i have dreamed them into existence on multiple occasions
waking to have their faces three inches from my face
i blink and they are gone
I have so many memories driving around, listening to all the great music that was actually on major labels while I was in high school. With my birthday coming up next week, turning 26, it has been 10 years since I was liberated with the concept of an automobile. This accelerated my ability to do illegal and mischievous things around town, it also provided me with a faster means of high tailing it out of bad situations. Anyway, during all of this I was most likely in either Mike’s or Alex’s car, and occasionally in Matt’s lil’ Festiva (the go cart) as I myself did not have my own car until college.
There was always a soundtrack to rollin’ around, usually hip-hop in Alex’s Accord, while in Mike’s GMC pickup it was usually a mix of rock and anything else, with ample amounts of Sublime.
So enjoy this mix, preferably while driving around, remembering what it was like to finally be free to go where you wanted, when you wanted, and then realize that it costs you about a dollar a mile now, and rollin’ around isn’t fun anymore.
Cheers!
High Schoolers Driving Cars
1. 2Pac - Amitionz As A Ridah
2. Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die
3. Aaliyah - Back and Forth
4. Beastie Boys - Body Movin’
5. Beck - Devil’s Haircut
6. Daft Punk - Da Funk
7. The Fugees - Fu-Gee-La
8. Nada Surf - Popular
9. Nirvana - Serve the Servants
10. Outkast - Two Dope Boyz (In a Cadillac)
11. Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
12. Rage Against the Machine - Bombtrack
13. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
14. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Ain’t No Fun
15. Soundgarden - Fell On Black Days
16. Stone Temple Pilots - Pretty Penny
17. Sublime - Smoke Two Joints
18. Sublime - Pawn Shop
19. Weezer - Buddy Holly
20. Wu-Tang Clan - Triumph
21. Pixies - Debaser
Myspace, Livejournal, and Facebook, goodbye. You never contributed anything of significance.
[edit]On the other hand, neither has this blog[/edit]
While I sit here, listening to the awe inspiring sound of Royksopp’s What Else Is There, featuring the singer of The Knife, while indulging my palette with a well balanced Lost Abbey Ale, I ponder the recent decision I have made.
For a portion of my pre-teens and teen years I played a pen and paper role playing game entitled Rift’s, a post apocalyptic fantasy/sci-fi game that helped me deal with my youthful anger and passions. Escaping to an alien filled, disaster of a world where black and white seemed to be the prominent element of decision, helped me to grow and accept things. One of my closest friends, Darryl, had moved away to Texas after 8th grade, and ever since then, playing Rift’s ceased. The books have been sitting on my shelf ever since, occasionally picked up to browse the beautiful illustrations, that irreplaceable tactile memory of flipping to a page that had spent so much time open on that it pulls your place to it every time your flip through.
These books have only sentimental value now, and therefore only really exist in my memories. I have decided to relieve myself of the burden of these items, however, I will keep one book, as I never want to risk the complete loss of the memories I hold that are momentarily released when I hold this book. This has been a decision nearly 10 years in the making, how interesting human behavior can be, especially towards books of white paper containing printed letters of black ink.
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