Summer Sounds

I’m aware that it’s been twenty days since I last posted an entry. I’m as disappointed in myself as the frequent readers of this site probably are. In addition to the lack of posting, I have yet to fulfill my self-imposed duty of writing a recount of the Florida trip that I know some people have been eagerly waiting for. I promise, that will come to fruition eventually. It’s no excuse, but I have been pretty busy lately. The lack of Internet at my house has been disconnected – that didn’t help. I’m posting this entry from Huntington. My only other reliable means of Internet access is Curtis’s house, and it’s unusable for financial reasons…=)

What have I been busy doing? Essentially, aside from work, which ended about a week ago, hanging out with my pals extensively, which is what I personally feel like I should be doing during the final summer I experience before college life begins. As much as I hate to say it, this could be the final days I have with some of these people. I’m making the most of them.

So far, this has been a mundane, cliché-filled piece explaining the reasons for my absence. I intend on making up for that with the rest of the entry. How?

I’m going to show you some songs from my MySpace playlist and open up about them. Sounds odd, yea, but, it feels like it could be a fun little project to get me back into a blogging groove. And, if successful, could become a monthly thing or something? We shall see!

1. Weightless
Artist: All Time Low
First listen: Last night when Jessica Farnham kept sending lyrics from the song to me on Yahoo! Messenger
Favorite Line: “Maybe it’s not my weekend, but it’s gonna be my year.”

So, I’m playing ‘20 Questions’ with Jessica, and playing ’20 Questions’ with Jessica is nothing like playing the real game. Her version is essentially a question and answer session that has no restrictions on the type of questions that can be asked. There always ends up being more than 20 questions asked.

As alluded to above, she sent lyrics from the song sporadically during our “game” until finally I asked her what they were from. She told me it was All Time Low’s new song “Weightless” and it was currently her favorite tune. I decided to give it a search via MySpace Music.

The opening of the song puts me in mind of Relient K, one of my absolute favorite bands. The song as a whole is really upbeat and conveys an optimistic message via a sense of hope and want illustrated throughout the course of the four minutes it lasts.

2. The Spectacular Spider-Man Theme Song
Artist: The Tender Box
First listen: When I watched the first episode of “The Spectacular Spider-Man” around 1 o’clock in the morning on The-Channel-Formerly-Known-As-Toon-Disney
Favorite Line: “Living on the edge, fighting crime, spinning webs.”

The first thing other than Spider-Man that comes to mind when I hear this song is Curtis Goble, one of my best friends. What Batman is to me, Spider-Man is to him. Batman is better, though =P

This is a fantastic show, though. It and “Wolverine and the X-Men” are easily the two best cartoons that have came out in the past five years. Both shows are delightful in both their animation and story-telling, and I look forward to watching both for years to come.

In fact, if all holds up well, I’ll be purchasing the 1st season of The Spectacular Spider-Man within the next few days. Woo!

3. Broken
Artist: Lifehouse
First listen: Unknown
Favorite Line: “And I still see your reflection inside of my eyes.”

My present infatuation with this song began when I first saw the trailer for “The Time Traveler’s Wife” attached to “My Sister’s Keeper” . For those of you who don’t know (like me until I did a Google search for “Song used in TTTW trailer”), it’s the song playing towards the end of the preview. On that subject, that appears to be a worthwhile movie to see, especially for a “chick flick”. I’m anticipating it somewhat.

I’m taken to a lot of places when I listen to this song.

One of those places is Heather. There’s still a lot of remorse there for that whole situation in my heart, but I imagine there will always be at least a little bit. I mean, how could there not be? First love – check. Good relationship gone bad – check. Unresolved issues that will likely never be brought to light again – check. These are all components for a lingering feeling, but ones that I’m happier to be living with now in retrospect than to be living without. I learned so much from being left for ladies. Ha.

Another place it takes me is a place I’ll care not to discuss until the end of the summer. She’s a wonderful place, though, at least in my head.

4. Rockin’ the Beer Gut
Artist: Trailer Choir
First listen: In Curtis’s living room on GAC while we were playing Yu-Gi-Oh!
Favorite line: “…And with the blue jeans a little tight around her butt…”

I think about Mary Ann Fletcher every time I listen to this song. While we were dating, she had a little bit of a belly and I adored it. After her alluring eyes and sweet ass (*see favorite line*), it was my favorite of her physical features. I just loved rubbing on her little tummy.

There’s a strange girl for you. We had a huge falling out due to some idiotic issues, but I’d be lying if I said I don’t miss her. She was fun to talk to, and especially during the times we spent chasing after each other, there was no better person in my world. People change though, sometimes for the better and at times for the worse.

At least you have upbeat songs about beer bellies to remember them by.

I’ll stop there. This blog turned out a bit different than I envisioned, but I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad thing. I’ll try to post tomorrow about some of the Huntington happenings that have occurred during my stay here!

Batman, AWAY!!!
Joshua Aaron Moore

Quote of the Day
“For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.”--- Ralph Waldo Emerson