365 project" if i go crazy then will you still call me superman?"

83.

artist:3 doors down
album:the better life

this CD came out on my 20th birthday. that really has no bearing on anything other than my thinking it has an interesting release date.

i remember the first time i heard "kryptonite." it was the same time that i heard stroke 9's "little black backpack" and i fell for both of these songs immediately. i was on my way home from college for a break and spent most of that time that i was home hanging out with Eric and Mike and some time with Josh. I'm betting that is why this CD makes me think of Military men, but regardless of the reason, it does.

my town is one of those towns were everyone joins the service in some regard. two of my brothers did. most of the guys that i grew up with did. its almost like its the logical next step for boys in this town (some of the girls did, too, but not too many.)

i used to listen to this CD a lot when i first got it. i was totally in love with it, and it was more or less all i wanted to listen to for at least six months. i did eventually grow out of it, and of that genre of music altogether, but i never got rid of the CD. I'm glad that i didn't. I'm finding that in doing this project I'm both maturing in my musical outlook and regressing in my musical taste. neither of these is a bad thing.

"duck and run" and "be like that" are two of my favorite tracks on this album, along with "kryptonite" of course. i don't think there are any songs on here that i particularly dislike. i may not want to include every one on a mix tape, but i don't especially want to skip over any while listening to the CD, either.

I'm still so astounded at how listening to a song or album can act just like a time machine, taking me back to a place in my life that i haven't thought about in forever. the particular memory brought back by this album was one of a bunch of us sitting in a truck going somewhere or another. i was in the backseat of the cab and the boys decided to play a game with me, only i wasn't aware. they flipped through the radio, trying to find a song that i didn't know the lyrics too, yet i kept singing along to everything that popped up. they got frustrated and stopped when this song came on, and all of us were singing by that point. they told me later about their game and how crazy i am for knowing all the songs on the radio. I'm glad to say that I'm not quite as good at that game now as i was 11 years ago, but i still know a lot more than i realize. I'm not sure if that's a good thing or not, at this point.