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Dot in the Sky ([personal profile] dotinthesky) wrote2006-04-19 07:57 pm

Memories Here & There

The guy who books my tickets to Brasil used to sleep with a gun underneath his pillow. I know this because his mother-in-law is my mom's best friend. I once had to spend the night in a hotel in Sao Paulo because he'd booked my connecting flight to Londrina the day after I arrived. I was very pissed off. We still use that travel agency because friendships are sometimes thicker than blood.

When I was a kid, my father would sometimes take my brother and I camping near the sea during Summer. We'd spend the whole day at the beach and, at night, I'd read Agatha Christie novels inside the tent until the mosquitoes got the best of me.

When I started smoking pot in high school, I'd make my best friends (Karla, Sue, Susannah and Janet -- yup I was the only boy) watch Siouxsie and the Banshees videos. I thought they were the trippiest videos ever; they laughed at Siouxsie and said she was Robert Smith in drag. I got my revenge when Karla was spooked by the skeleton dancing in the video for "Cities in Dust".

I did mushrooms for the first time in Janet's dorm room in McGill University. She played Abba and I felt like the music was coming to me from another planet. Then I cried during Tracy Chapman's "Drive".

When Kevin and I moved to London, we lived in hostels for two weeks. It was a week exactly after 9/11 and there was a young american student, Aaron, in our room. I still dont' know if he figured out we were a couple. He'd go jogging in Hyde Park in the morning, wear a shirt and tie to the theatre (which he would attend by himself); he was from Albuquerque, New Mexico, and he had native blood.

[identity profile] msanthropist.livejournal.com 2006-04-19 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
I never cried on shrooms. Only always laughed so hard and long my face always hurt the next day from my "perma-grin"! I don't know Tracy Chapman's "Drive", how's it go, lyric-wise? I use to play her debut album when it first came out over and over again and the guy I was dating felt like I was torturing him when he'd hear it! "How can you listen to this shit?!" I loved it-all of it! I discovered Robert Cray at around the same time and was given to listening to a lot of Sade and Berlin, Indigo Girls, stuff like that...we broke up...(he was more into classic rock like a lot of Beatles, Grateful Dead, Zeppelin, which I also loved but...

[identity profile] aeonflux.livejournal.com 2006-04-19 11:30 pm (UTC)(link)
You DO TOO know Tracy Chapman's drive, you have the album it's on. It goes, "Remember when we were driving, driving in your car. Speeds so fast I thought I was drunk. And I-ee-I had a feeling that I belonged. And I-ee-I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone." In it, she's talking about how she has to quit school to take care of her father and how she just wants to escape. It makes me cry too.