I'll be traveling back to Bloomington in a couple of months in order to have some fun and games with the friends that I've been missing. I've been thinking about what I miss and who I'm looking forward to seeing.
There are a couple of memories that I've been having that actually make me miss the place. I almost broke down today due to it, and it was more from the overwhelming sense of emotion and nostalgia that creeped in.
It has been rainy and gloomy the past couple of days in Austin. All weekend long and every day this week so far with the stop ending sometime around Thursday or Friday. There is this band called Murder by Death. When I first got introduced to them by my brother with all the music knowledge, I was a listened to them a lot. Then the music got put away for a while. Then it came back. Cycles, like most music in my life.
The album that springs to mind is called Like the Exorcist, but More Breakdancing. There is this one track, and damn me for not remembering the name right now, but I think it is Intergalactic Menopause. There is this one span of music in the track that is seared in to my head from a time when MySpace was the thing to be on. I was downloading some music or TV show or something at the time probably House or Lost, and it was cold outside. I lived in a place that wasn't insulated that well, to the point where I tried to put up some window covers so heat could stay in the house. I was cold, shivering a little, and sitting at my computer going through whatever online or what have you. The music was playing, I was wearing long johns underneath some holy jeans.
The best way I can describe it is that it was Illinois winter to me. Sitting in a room that was colder than it should, breath to the point of almost being seen, loosing myself to the oceans of the internet, the soundtrack seared so deep in the memory that it warms my heart just a little. It was an overcast day. I couldn't tell you if it was the weekend or weekday, but it was some afternoon. I think I may have been waiting for work to start. I was living in a party house. It encapsulates my 20s.
The office's AC in our room was broken, so they fixed it, and then it got fixed too well. Add in the rain and it was freezing cold in the room. Even the people with a couple of jackets and blankets for the winter time had pulled them out and were still feeling the cold. When a typical 100 degree day in Texas turns to the 70s with rain, full blast AC is not what you need.
That triggered that memory in me. That music came up and played in my head most of the afternoon. I'm forming thoughts and actions today that I know will stick with me for a lifetime just as much as that one, but it will always be around longer than them and burn a little warmer.
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Have you ever sat in a room playing a video game all day long only to look up and realize that the room you swore was all lit up about 10 minutes ago is now at that breaking point of more darkness instead of day light surrounding you and any stresses you had that day are replaced with the coming excitement for what the night time adventures will bring? That memory is another one I have when I realized that and my roommate was playing that MbD album. I was playing Crash Nitro Kart on PS2.
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