Life goes on, man! The July 2023 Challenge!

6. “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”
Revisit old favorites from your college or early adult years.

The Tragically Hip – Day For Night
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Dropping out of college was the best thing I could have done for my Tragically Hip fandom. If I hadn't dropped out I wouldn't have moved to Alberta to live in my dad's basement and I wouldn't have spent hours getting high with my friend Leigh who was a huge fan of The Tragically Hip. He did his best to bring me over to the Gord side. When I first heard "It's a Good Life If You Don't Weaken" from In Violet Light on a mixtape in his car I had him stop at Future Shop on our way to whatever movie we were going to see and promptly bought a copy of that album. Shortly after that, I bought a CD copy of Day For Night because I recognized a couple of the songs from mixtapes he'd made me and promptly realized on first spin that I'd done myself a disservice resisting for so many years. I listened to this a LOT in my early twenties, and have been at it again the past half dozen or so years. Pretty much a perfect album.
 
gafacaode said:
6 “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”
Revisit old favorites from your college or early adult years.

I played this shit out the CD way back then.

The Strokes - Is This It?

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Funny how the mind works.
I was a Padawan in the last year of my residency when this record came out. I WAS YOUNG my mind says.
I did the math and I was 27. Does that count as early adult?
 
gafacaode said:
6 “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”
Revisit old favorites from your college or early adult years.

I played this shit out the CD way back then.

The Strokes - Is This It?

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This was my first choice but I was lazy and didn’t wanna move the crate of vinyl that was blocking my “ST” cube.
 
Day 6: “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”

Solange - A Seat at the Table

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This dropped the day before my 20th birthday, and I remember seeing nothing but love and praise for this album all over my tw@tter timeline that day (for damn good reason).
 
6. “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”



RED - Taylor Swift

Yes I know this is Taylor’s Version, but I gotta celebrate her owning her music and Speak Now TV is out tomorrow so….I’ll pick it up on wax eventually!

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I could write an essay on how connected I feel to this album for both good and very bad reasons. This was my soundtrack to my later college years and it’s the one album I associate with that time in my life.


For my own failures I could look back on, I can also see how far I’ve come. I can look forward to the future and promise of better things.

As Taylor put it this was me at a “happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way…” part of my life. I wouldn’t be here without it.
 
Piratenovelist said:
6. “Oh, the usual. I bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.”



RED - Taylor Swift

Yes I know this is Taylor’s Version, but I gotta celebrate her owning her music and Speak Now TV is out tomorrow so….I’ll pick it up on wax eventually!

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I could write an essay on how connected I feel to this album for both good and very bad reasons. This was my soundtrack to my later college years and it’s the one album I associate with that time in my life.


For my own failures I could look back on, I can also see how far I’ve come. I can look forward to the future and promise of better things.

As Taylor put it this was me at a “happy, free, confused and lonely in the best way…” part of my life. I wouldn’t be here without it.
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Yeah, my wife likes to ask me if I could go back would I change anything. I say this (and actually believe it) "if I changed anything, I would not be who I am and I would not want to jeopardize meeting you."
 
Day 2: “Calm down, your being very undude.”
Play something that inspire self-reflection

Perfume Genius - Set My Heart on Fire Immediately

This album always puts me in a reflective and introspective mood. Deeply personal lyrics surrounded by gorgeous soundscapes will do that to me.

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