No, no, no, no; don't phunk with my charts!

I have to give Jeffrey props for that one. That shit was hilarious. Granted, it took me nearly a year to give him his props, but I think he'll recover swiftly. I'll just throw a Buffy action figure at him. That should keep him plenty occupied.

So, over on Lengli's blog, she did this whole thing about songs from her senior year of high school. Not only did it 1) make me feel old as shit, but it also 2) inspired me to do something similar. Funny how the music theme has popped up in the last couple of weeks.I looked at the songs that debuted during my senior year in high school, but I also noticed that a good deal of them were more prevalent during the fall semester of my freshman year, so I ran with those, too. Anyway, here's my take on it. In no particular order. Just deal with it.

1.) Beastie Boys, "Sabotage" - Ah, Check Your Head and Ill Communication were two of the best albums to color the span of my life from 1992-1994. And "Sabotage" brings back the wondrous memories of the beginning of my freshman year, when the Wink Posse, newly formed Gainesville chapter, spent a good deal of time learning how to be in college (which was surprisingly a lot like being in high school, but with 90% less parents and a lot more local concerts).

The first week up there, we were putzing around on campus one evening, and the boys re-enacted a spirited rendition of the "Sabotage" video by bouncing off of buildings and rolling around everywhere. Glass, Lord bless his ever-loving soul, complete with blue fiberglass arm cast, decided to do his part by dropping and rolling on the ground by the Union... right onto a pile of dog shit. It took him a few moments to realize this, then he tried to start wiping it off with his non-casted hand. After that didn't work, he decided the best way to get rid of the offending stain was to turn his shirt inside out to wear it.

God bless that kid. Jesus.

After some convincing, Glass finally decided to make the walk home to shower and change. We gladly met up with him much later (and thankfully, staph free) at Denny's.

Someone remind me to dedicate a post to nothing but Glass one of these days. I miss that kid. Glass, if you're out there, dammit, send out the signal!

2.) Weezer, "The Sweater Song" - Ah, yes. The Blue Album. D-Rock and E-Money (aka Daria and Erika) performed this in our floor lounge during our Graham 2 Talent Show, I believe. My favorite line was (and still is) "Oh no/it go/it gone/bye-bye (bye!)" What can I say? I am just a simple creature. Glass would also sing this while he was washing all of our dishes in the floor lounge (did I mention he also held the title of "Official Graham 2 Do-Boy"? His mama must've been so proud).

3.) Violent Femmes, "Add It Up"- Yes, technically, this did not come out during that time, but I think that fucking album was one of the things that came with your course catalog, or something. They came and played at Florida Theater with G. Love and Special Sauce as their opening act. That concert fucking rocked. And my friend the free-love slut (something we would only discover much, much later, and much, much too late to salvage any of the boys who fell victim to her advances) caught Brian Ritchie's pick. Fucking whore. I've got nothing more to say about that.

(Oh yeah, there's a Glass story attached to this, too, but I'm saving that one for later.)

4.) Crystal Waters, "100% Pure Love." - So, every night, to keep myself grounded, I would call Patterson to go over our individual day's events. Eventually, I was not only calling to talk to him, but his roommate, who became my best guy friend for a long time. We thought it was funny when we could refer to this song and truthfully say "Hey, it's ten past midnight" when we were on the phone. Yeah, we were silly, but that shit was important to us. Patterson and I are still tight. That other guy? I think he's a doctor somewhere. He stopped talking to just about all of us when he was deep into med school, that fucker. No, I'm not angry.

5.) 12 Gauge, "Dunkie Butt" - There are memorable songs, and there are classics. You know, the ones with lyrics that are burned into your memories forever. "Give me that dunkie butt and them big ol' legs/I ain't too proud to beg," and "Let me ride that dunkie, dunkie" are bound to end up on someone's headstone somewhere. Just like the lyrics to "Imagine." I don't have any good stories to go with this; I just find it ridiculous that out of nowhere, I will find myself singing this at the most inopportune times.

6.) The Cranberries, "Linger" It's always great fun to change the lyrics of songs. Changing lyrics to songs by The 'Berries is no exception. My favorite parodies are singing "A-T-M... A-T-Mmmm, money, money, money-ey-ey!" to "Zombie," and "Did you have to pull my finger? Did you have to? Did you have to? Did you have to pull my finger?" to "Linger." In my addle-pated mind, I always think of that scene in that one episode of My So-Called Life where Angela's mom is talking to her in her room and mentions she likes the song that Angela is playing. All of Graham 2 would get together to watch MSCL for that one glorious season. And for a while, Sarah dated someone that looked like Krakow. That was kind of strange. I almost asked her why she didn't look for a Jordan, but I never did.

However, I'm sure that "Dreams" is playing during that scene. (Yes, I am still an MSCL dork.) Point is, the Cranberries always makes me think of that scene. Just like hearing "Late at Night" by Buffalo Tom makes me think of the scene where Jordan finally holds Angela's hand in public (Sigh.) Oh, Jordan. I just love how he leans.


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