365 project:"how it got so cold our words just froze, we had to wait til summer to find out what was said"

65.

artist:motion city soundtrack
album:commit this to memory

it took me a really long time to listen to motion city soundtrack. i had been to shows that they were playing four or five times and still never heard them play...i seemed to always find something else to do to occupy that time. finally i was forced, as i went to the Nintendo fusion tour the year that MCS, fallout boy and the starting line were on the bill. there was no way i was getting around seeing them this time.

they were fun enough at that show, but i am stubborn as an ox, and still didn't care to pay any mind to their music, even though my friend was in LOVE with this band. a later that summer we went to warped tour and there was no one else playing worth seeing at that same time, so we went to see their set. their song "the future freaks me out" got stuck in my head that day and i was kind of hooked. for some reason, though, i didn't buy that album, instead going for the newest release they had at the time-commit this to memory.

what ended up happening was that i fell in love with the lyrics on this album and listened to it nonstop. AND i developed a crush on Justin Pierre and his crazy hair. to this day, i still have a bit of a crush on him, even though his hair has toned down a bit. i was actually thinking of him when i woke up this morning, because my hair definitely had a JP feel to it...i haven't been feeling well so i spent the better part of yesterday in bed. that tends to make my hair act out.

one of my favorite things about commit this to memory is that the lyrics paint such a clear picture in my mind. i can relate to the things he is saying in my own way, and i can see these images in my head. my favorite line of the entire album is from "time turned fragile."

Do you still believe in the stories told
To you by my friends and I
When you were four years-old?
How it got so cold, the words just froze
We had to wait 'til summer
To find out what was said
One of the best times that we had

i can see the cartoon version of this playing out, and it makes me smile every single time i hear the song.

i don't listen to this CD much anymore. it was one of the few things left on my ipod that i still listened to after about a year into the great ipod freeze, and i haven't really gotten over that yet. its the reason that i don't listen to a lot of my Cd's anymore, actually. i was stuck today for something, though, because i left all of my stuff in the house when i was trying to get the baby into the car (purse included, ugh) and this was the only CD in the car that fit the self-imposed qualifications for this project.

will i start listening again? probably not anytime soon. while the songs fit well in the life that i was living when i was listening to this album, things have changed and the CD just doesn't feel right anymore. i cant relate like i used to be able to. will i get rid of the album totally? no. ill keep it around and pull it out once in a while, when the time feels right, but it definitely wont be finding its way back into regular rotation.