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[editor's note: Sly is responding to the topic that I announced here last week for the Blog Ninja's Challenge. The topic was:
You know how you can be driving along, just minding your own business and suddenly a song will come on the radio that transports you through space and time so clearly and throughly that you miss your exit or rear end the car in front of you?
Here's your topic: What song transports you through space and time, and where do you go?]
I am participating in the Blog Ninjas Mystery Topic Challenge. If you’d like to join me, please visit Blog Ninjas today.
My “transport” song, the one that takes me back in time, has not only the ability to take me back in time, but to make me feel again, if only for a brief moment, exactly how I felt nearly a decade ago. The song doesn’t come on the radio often, nor does it pop-up frequently on my itunes when I put the library on shuffle. This lack of frequent interaction between me and the song is likely a good thing, since I am overly sentimental at any given time, and when I have the fortune to stumble upon a Live 105 1990’s retrospective and hear Weezer’s “Only in Dreams”, I once again turn into an innocently passionate and smitten sixteen year-old. (Sentiment + nostalgia+ revisiting girly teenage feelings = sap overload. Just ask Lee.)
“Only In Dreams” had already been around for 5 years when my boyfriend and I started making out to it in 1999. We would hide out from the Georgia humidity and his overzealous mother in the finished basement of his parents’ house during that last summer before I moved to California, and do things that teenagers do when they believe they are desperately in love and the relationship has a moratorium due to my impending move. He would play the song on his computer and we would sit together on the itchy couch that was certainly a relic of the 1970’s, and whatever inappropriate activity we were engaged in at the time would become inexplicably more intense, that much hotter. (No doubt this was due to the rousing climax that occurs at the end of the song!)
The last time we listened to it together, I was leaving for California the next morning, and I cried so hard I left stains on his shirt, even though I was convinced that we were going to be the couple that could do long-distance. (Ah, naivety!) I was surprised even then at my willingness to love someone so wholeheartedly and to feel those things I had always believed belonged solely to adults. And when I hear “Only in Dreams,” I feel all of that again. A little turned-on, remembering those basement fumblings, a little sheepish about my old emo ways, and a lot nostalgic for being that innocent and hopeful.
[That was great, Sly! Hopefully I can talk you into posting here again in the future. I was inspired to create this topic along time ago when I wrote what would have been my entry into this challenge (I'm not eligible to win again). If you're interested, check out: Movie Moment 1.-Jester]
[UPDATED to include the voting links and other participant's links.]
Please visit the Mystery Topic Challenge Blog to view all of the other entries. Once you’ve read them all, please be sure to vote HERE in the Sidebar for your favorite.
- Shadylady
- Geekgrl
- Shiloh
- Jayne d’Arcy
- Grumpamoose
- BunGirl
- Biologisvensk
- Andycivil
- Killer
- Michelle L
- Jan
- Paris4Prez
- Sly (hosted by Jestertunes - some material on the site is NSFW)
It’s good to write again! Perhaps next time, I’ll do something in collaboration with my fabulous Lee.
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