One Rainy Night

20 random songs on my Ipod, and what memories they hold for me

1) Coming Home by City and Colour – Other than being a beautiful song, it reminds me of a day at work with MJ listening to my ipod and when this song came on, she said that it was so sweet, that it was about a boy coming home to the girl he loves. I laughed and said “Ya, but it’s sad because he is asking his girlfriend, who was staying home while he was on the road, if it would be Dallas’ heart, or a different man that the girl had been cheating with.”
2) Jitterbug by Wham! – Reminds me of Zoolander, and I always think “Orange Mocha Frappachino!!” Also, just a great song to dance to.

3) Autumns Monologue by From Autumn to Ashes– Makes me think of my younger teenage years, filled with amazing friends, alcohol, depression and joy.
4) Ooh it’s Kinda Crazy by Soul Decision – Memories of my mom and sister and I singing to these guys when I was younger and they were at the height of their popularity. Reminds me of my youth.
5) I Can’t Hate You Anymore by Nick Lachey – Sitting at my old job at the photography studio Pogopix, smelling Kernel’s popcorn across the way, working on editing photos with my limited knowledge of Photoshop.

6) Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper – Laying in the backseat of my aunt’s car making the six hour trip from Calgary to Saskatoon, listening to 80’s songs and playing with my gameboy.

7) I Don’t Care by Fallout Boy – Singing this song to Rockband and kicking ass!

8 ) Save Yourself by Sense Field – Not knowing what he was talking about in the song, and asking my mom about it and her explaining it to me.

9) Wait and Bleed by Slipknot– Grade 10 year, creating my old song artwork pieces I used to do.

10) Bleeding Mascara by Atreyu – Sitting in my councilor’s office in grade 10, crying and listening to this song as loud as it would go. I was waiting for my mom to come to the school so we could have a discussion about my behaviour and self-harming habits.

11) I’ll Be by Edwin McCain – Singing this song in the schoolyard with my old friend Katelyn, singing our hearts out as we walked to the bus so we could go to a different school for shop class.

12) Jesse’s Girl by Rick Springfield – I used to have a massive crush on the friend of my best friend’s brother. His name was Jesse, and he was a couple years older than me. I was massively infatuated, and always sang the lyrics my own way, “You know I wish that I was Jesse’s girl…”

13) Open Wounds by Skillet – I was sitting on the bus late at night waiting to go home, and the bus driver had this song playing on his stereo and I really liked it, so I googled what song it was when I got home. I found out that Skillet is a Christian group, but I really liked this song.

14) Sunday, Bloody Sunday by U2 – Sitting in grade nine English class, and one of my best friends, Russell (who I really liked at the time) chose this song to play to the class and explain the meaning of it to him. We all had to choose a song that meant something to us personally, and he always loved U2. Whenever I hear this song, I think of him.

15) Angel of Death by Slayer – Sitting in my aunt’s old basement on the computer while the rest of the family was upstairs, and I was in a really destructive mood. I would sit and constantly search for songs like this, about death and destruction and hatred, because it was always on my mind.
16) It’s Not a Fashion Statement, it’s a Fucking Death Wish by My Chemical Romance – Junior high years, having a close-knit circle of friends who I would hang out with, talk about getting drunk, they’d get high, and I would just take it all in stride, as long as MCR was playing

17) Still Waiting by Sum 41 – I hate this song, but when I was in grade nine we had to perform a music video for drama class. I chose this one, and bought a tie from Value Village and painted it black, made a guitar out of cardboard, and completely memorized the exact moves that were performed by the lead singer (me) in the video. Then, after all of this work and time put in, we never got to perform. I was so upset!

18) Addicted by Enrique Iglesias – Grade nine, middle of the year dance. I was dancing with Chadd, and I was singing this as we swayed side to side. He said that I had a good voice, and it made me ecstatic to hear that because he was praised for his singing abilities so it was such a compliment coming from him.

19) We’re From America by Marilyn Manson – Other than the decade long love-affair (in my head) with this man, it reminds me of when I went to see his concert with best friend Chandra, and he said he was going to do this song next and he got booed by us Canadian hosers, and he was like “Do you honestly think that I not being fucking sarcastic?” or something sarcastic like that. Rawr.

20) Televators by The Mars Volta – Laying on my back in the dark basement of Cyril’s house, listening to this song on repeat while talking to A about anything that came to mind, for hours and hours while laying on the awful blue carpet down there.

Tags: Just me, Random thoughts