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artist:eve 6
album:self-titled
i am taking a road trip in a week and a half. i decided that since I'm wide awake tonight with nothing to do that i would work on a road trip mix because i only have access to the CD player on the trip and i need to not go crazy on the six hour drive. that makes sense, right?
As i was setting up a new playlist on itunes, i noticed that i already had one entitled "roadtrip." i forgot that i had made a roadtrip mix for the last trip i took so i figured id look to see what was on it. its actually not half-bad, except for two songs in the middle that just don't fit. i remember wanting to replace those songs with "open road song" by eve 6 and "running down a dream" by tom petty. i didn't know where my tom petty CD was, and my eve 6 cassette disappeared longer ago than id care to admit to having owned it, so i never got around to it. i figured tonight was as good a night as any to fix it up, and since I've just re-acquired eve 6's self-titled album, i decided to listen to it.
instantly I'm amazed at how much of the album i remember, but more so at how much of it i forget. there is a song on here called showerhead that i don't remember at all. the lyrics are very graphic, so I'm wondering if i blocked them out of my brain over the last XX years.
this CD reminds me of two people-Brielle because she gave it to me originally and Ben because he wrote about it to me while i was away in college. Brielle sent me away to college with a few tapes to keep me sane, and one of my favorites was the one that had this album on one side and pearl jam's ten on the other. i played this cassette all of the time. Brielle was my hero, and actually, now that I'm thinking about it, she is the one that introduced me to grunge, which id consider a big leap in the molding of my musical tastes.
shortly after my freshman year of college began, i received a card in my mailbox from Ben. (yes, i went to college a long time ago. we didn't use email or anything like that to communicate. we called on the phone and mailed things via the US postal service.) i was pretty stoked because for most of my life up until that point i had a pretty big crush on him. well, through that point, i guess. the crush didn't dissolve until id been away from him for some time. at any rate, in this card he wrote a bunch of random things including asking me if id heard the song about putting your heart in a blender. of course i had, but because he wrote it in there, i associated the song with him from that point on.
every once in a while its nice to dig up and oldie but goodie. this was one of those whiles.
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