19 Sep 2013
Train of Thought, Complete with Map.
1. In 2003 or so, gorjus mailed me a package full of all the crappy mix cds people made for him that he’d accumulated through the years. Some were indeed crappy, but there was one that I really loved. It had the Billy Bragg song “Greetings to the New Brunette (Shirley)” and the Morrissey song “Let the Right One Slip In” and the Queers song “I Can’t Get Over You.”
2. I was living in Birmingham the second time in 2003, and I think have mentioned ad nauseum that Birmingham Part Deux was a real shitstorm: my mom had cancer, the job I moved for disappeared, I had to commute an hour to my OLD job that I left in Tuscaloosa, my car’s air conditioner broke, my apartment was broken into, I thought I was being haunted by my dead friend’s ghost, and no boys liked me. I kept throwing myself at one in particular to no avail. That Queers song was my anthem.
3. I particularly enjoyed that song on my way home from Ann’s house because there was a shortcut where I got to drive up a mountain. It was so fine a drive I’d turn around just to do it again.
4. Last night I was listening to the Queers song on my way to my manfriend’s house* and was imagining driving up the mountain. I could imagine making my way from Ann’s past her friend Julie’s house, then turning onto the road with the main incline but then could not remember which way the road turned and then how I got to my house.
5. Thus, I had to Google maps it to complete my mental drive for the next time I hear the song.
6. Then I had to write a blog post about it.
*The manfriend is actually the dude I threw myself at in 2003. Go figure. Life is weird.
September 19th, 2013 at 10:59 am
The footnote on this post is my favorite part.
September 19th, 2013 at 11:59 am
Yeah, me too 🙂
September 20th, 2013 at 12:26 am
I enjoyed the map.
September 20th, 2013 at 5:06 pm
This made me cry. Beautifully woven together, Sally.
September 30th, 2013 at 5:11 pm
number five is so awesome.