I’ve got a lot of music on my computer. Just hunting for a song a few minutes ago, and found myself in what’s basically my ‘random singles’ folder on my D: drive. Basically it’s a folder full of songs I don’t have the rest of the album for. Some are individual tracks off full albums (pre-itunes you used to have to buy the whole crappy cd for that one great radio track) and others are songs I’ve never had the full album for.
Anyways, because I’m a clever obsessive fuck, I haven’t really ‘gotten’ a new computer since 1998. Since then I’ve been copying my hard-drives, only upgrading the OS. This means files that aren’t OS related have their original time-stamp creation date intact.
So I’ve kinda got a diary of my life based on these tracks. Kinda weird, especially when I started looking at the dates and realized I could remember a bit about some of the days. Some highlights:
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World.mp3 - 10/28/1998. This, along with many other tracks obtained that day, were in preparation for the Halloween Party I had Senior Year of high school. I had the computer going straight to the stereo, uber playlist. Cutting edge. I was elvis (said costume has been re-prised many a times despite never really being long enough in the legs…)
Scatman John - Scatman.mp3 - 11/23/1998. This was when I was working at AFFECT, an educational non-profit setup to give smart computery young kids work. We used to listen to it there which must have prompted me to download it for reason!
Bob Marley - Three Little Birds.mp3 - 03/18/1999. Ben Kimpel made me a best of bob marley disc at some point. That’s where this is from.
Sprung Monkey - Get Em Outta Here.mp3 - 12/15/1999. My first semester at College I saw Kelly on and off, from san diego. She liked this song which was from a band down there…
Tracy Chapman - Telling Stories.mp3 - 02/15/2000. Went to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno live taping with Jamie Lofgren. She played this song off her new album. I liked.
Oasis - Go Let It Out.mp3 - 04/07/2000. They used to play this video all the time in the Northridge crappy student union.
Wilco - How to fight loneliness.mp3 - 08/20/2000.Went to a Pearl Jam show in Indiana that summer with Seth, Peter, and Peter’s brother. On the long drive back I remember hearing this song in a semi-lucid dream state as it blared through the car.
Joe Cocker - Feelin’ Alright.mp3 - 10/15/2000. My friend Ricky was on exchange from Germany in Santa Cruz. I think she had just broken up with her boy, so I made her a happy cd.
Stephen Stills - TreeTop Flyer.MP3 - 10/18/2000. KPIG played this on a saturday Brett and I drove down to the Flea Market, which was also that drive in theater!
Theme - Muppet Show.mp3 - 11/29/2000. I had to download it for a project I had in MUPPET MAGIC. that’s right, I got COLLEGIATE CREDIT for that shit! But Jim Henson did become a profound personal and artistic role model for me after learning about him in that class. Holy shit, here’s the project! (open in a new tab)
Lamb - Goreki.mp3 - 03/11/2001. The Duchess, becky beeson, the girl of the time had me download this…
Tommy James And The Shondels - Draggin’ The Line.mp3 - 06/29/2001 Nate Cooper, a fellow film student from Santa Cruz, visited me in chicago that summer. We ate at ed debevics and they played this song while i was there.
Robert Plant - Big Log.mp3 - 08/16/2001.heard this on the shitty little clock radio in our bathroom on rock 103.5 during a shower after a night of volleyball- i think.
Neil Young - Love & Only Love.mp3 - 10/21/2001. Immediately downloaded this after my first live exposure to neil and this song at The Bridge School benefit.
Kenny Loggins - Conviction Of The Heart.mp3 - 11/21/2001. No IDEA why I got this then, but I seriously remember dancing to it in our living room in 5th grade, after Mrs. Heilbronner had us learn it to sing on Earth Day.
The Last Dragon (Soundtrack) - The Last Dragon.mp3 - 01/10/2002. George Stavrias, one of the coolest aussie’s i’ve known, and I deeply bonded over this film on a sunday movie night during my RA days! We watched the whole F’in commentary!
Shakira - Whatever Whenever.mp3 - 04/14/2002. One of the most popular songs played at the clubs when we went down to mexico for spring break that year. Yes, the year of the “incident” and the blacking out on the beach thing…
Kylie Minogue - Love at the first sight.mp3 - 10/1/2002. One of the most popular songs played during my whole summer trip in Europe. guess it took me a while to get it.
At this point some hard drive crashes fuck things up - a bunch of songs got written over with dates in ‘05. those songs still trigger memories but without the dates I won’t bother writing about them.
Kinda weird, writing about those days made me remember a lot more than I ever thought I did.
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