365 project "dont hate me/forever/i'm better late that never/i've failed you/i'm sorry/it's simply my life story"

141.

artist:MxPx
album:the ever passing moment

i know that i haven't listened to this album probably since sometime before my last radio show, so its easily been eight years. id wager a bet that its been even longer than that. i had actually forgotten about its existence until just the other day when someone somewhere posted "responsibility, whats that?" i knew by the person posting (i believe it was Jess perry or Jess perry related, but i cant find it now to be sure) that it was a reference to this song, and not just a random question.

since the reading of that post, this song has made its home in my head, so this morning before i left for work, i dug out my good ole CD binder and flipped through til i found this disk, and then proceeded to pop it in on the way to work. now, my drive to work takes about three minutes on a bad day, yet i was still able to get through the entire first track by the time i shut my engine off again. that's one of the perks to pop-punk albums...short songs.

it was weird to me how even though id forgotten about the existence of this album, as soon as it started playing i remembered all of the words to all of the songs. things like this make me believe that we should teach all important lessons in school via song...the only history stuff i remember to this day is the stuff i learned from school house rock.

i was never really a huge MxPx fan. I'm pretty sure I've seen them in concert a time or two, though, because my good friend in high school, Laura, was really, really into them. the only reason i ever even owned a CD of theirs to begin with was because of Laura. then the song responsibility hit the airwaves, and since it had a music video that featured George wendt (would you like to take a survey?*) it got some play on MTV and therefore became something i needed more of in my life. its sad to say how many album purchases were brought on by MTV, and its even more sad that there's no longer music on MTV.

see, now this is the problem i keep having with these entries...i tell a story, but they don't really have much of an ending. i am then left feeling like I'm stuck without a nice little wrap up or tie in, but i have no idea where to go from there. I've said all i feel like saying about the record? now what? i need to go back to school to learn how to write a proper essay.

*anyone who can tell me what that is referencing will receive a homemade cookie from me.