365 project: "ground control to major tom"

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artist:various
album:Mr. deeds soundtrack

i really like this soundtrack because it has a mix of stuff that was new at the time the movie came out as well as stuff that was new when my daddy was in high school. a lot of times i pick up soundtracks because of one or two songs, but this entire soundtrack makes me happy.

the story i decided to tell about this album comes from my very first few days at college at Monmouth. the transfer had been a lot harder on me emotionally than i was prepared for, and because there weren't enough dorm rooms, the stuck most of the transfers in a hotel a few miles from campus. i didn't have a car, so i was stuck trying to catch the unreliable shuttle and ended up being late/missing lots of classes during those first four or so weeks.

being a transfer student at Monmouth, and especially not actually living on campus to begin with, made it really hard to make friends, but luckily i had a really awesome roommate, who i got along great with. we were both transfers so we had that in common, but we both had really awesome tastes in music as well as all sorts of other things in common. i had gone through a bunch of really shitty roommate situations at Waynesburg so having a roommate that i had anything in common with was the best thing that i could think of.

i remember talking to her one night and her telling me that she and her boyfriend were going to see the band Travis. at this time i was obsessed with the song "sing" and so i was a bit jealous of her for that. she went home and went to the concert, and i went home and did nothing that weekend, but it wasn't really a big deal in the grand scheme of things, i mean, she didn't even know me when she bought the tickets. its weird, though, that i still think of that every time i hear the band or see that they are coming around again. i only know one song by them, but i was so heartbroken that i wasn't going to see them back then.

we got a letter under our hotel room door a few days later saying that we would be moving on campus, so we needed to pack up. we weren't able to stay together, because they placed us wherever they had room, and i don't think i ever spoke to her again after we moved out of that hotel room. it wasn't because we didn't like each other, but rather we just ended up running in different crowds, and my radio station and CA group friends weren't like hers, so that was that.