past tense

October 28, 2007 at 07:26 PM

As I shot down the I-5 listening to my iPod, this song came up, bringing up memories from my first year in college, way back in 1994-1995

To quote Mos Def, “A lot of things have changed. A lot of things have not.”

But the song is [“You Gotta Be” by Des’ree][1], and the most vivid memory is hanging out at the Berkeley Marina, and gazing at the hills to the east, and the Campanile towering in the distance.

We used to go to the marina to get away from campus, and sometimes we’d fly kites.

you gotta be bad
you gotta be bold
you gotta be wiser
you gotta be hard
you gotta be tough
you gotta be stronger
you gotta be cool
you gotta be calm
you gotta stay together
all I know all I know love will save the day

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even farther back

September 07, 2007 at 05:43 AM

1995: Deep wounds. Ugly scars. And then: new, unfounded hopes and unfulfillable wishes. I learn a secret that, in the end, fucks me up bad, but which I am bound by honor to keep. (And would the outcome really have changed if I had betrayed it? Except for the damnation of my soul?)

1. TLC “Waterfalls” (A piece of advice that I didn’t follow when it may have helped me)
2. 4xample “I’d Rather Be Alone” (The beginning is set in Union Station between Downtown L.A. and Chinatown, across the street from the site of the first settlement.)
3. Terry Ellis (of En Vogue) “Where Ever You Are”
4. 3T “Anything” (Here is where this blog’s protagonist goes berserk. For the next three years twelve years and counting)
5. 4PM “Sukiyaki” (Applicable to more than one of my pathetic stories about my life)

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