Sentimental
Trip Start
Jul 01, 2004
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Trip End
Ongoing
City of bridges,
Oregon,
United States
Saturday, October 22, 2005
A very long time ago I silkscreened a couple of my favourite 7"s onto patches. I moved them around from hoodie to hoodie. About a month ago I lost my hoodie that had both these patches on it. I couldn't are less about the goodwill hoodie but I was half devistated about the patches. One of them was a band whose record I was searching for for 11 years.
Today I was particularily depressed, strange considering it was probably the last nice day until spring - sunny and 71 degrees. Not a smidge of rain or clouds. And it was the day I would finally get to see my favourite band play after 3 years... crazy...
Item #1
I went to the punk record store around the corner from my house and what should I find in the "Collectors" Record bin - my long lost 7". It was a little shocking and a little under dramatic. I think I stepped out of my body... I was in no way elated. See Item #1. I bought a LOT of other records, including a 7" by a cult Japanese band who's 12" i own. It was curious because the cover was familiar, it was the other cover I had been wearing on my hoodie for 10 years. The songs were different so I figured it was new or some bootlegger had squashed the 45 rpm 12" down to a 33 rmp 7". I figured I'd take my chances... even at such a high price. When I got it home I realized it was a 7" from 10 years back that I never ended up buying - it was my boyfriend's at the time. I had forgot it even existed. It was a nice surpise to hear those songs I loved so much again... See Item #2. These records cost me $22 in total. This is expensive...
At the show I "re-met" the Tragedy drummer. It was really weird that he remembered me from 10 years before. However it was funny, because tonight he first commented on my Citizen's Arrest shirt and he had commented on it 10 years previous. Boys in bands seem to notice my shirts... He recognized me even tho I had seen him only briefly in Toronto (commented on my CA shirt) and then a few months later at the infamous show in San Fran that closed down Epicenter (commented on my CA shirt again, man I must have lived in that thing) when us Toronto kids were eating burritos with His Hero is Gone before the show. We discussed our ages... And Tragedy opened the show with "We're the old man band"...
What a strange sentimental day. It's not necessarily nostaglia because I don't think those days were the best or anything. I was always "the girlfriend" who people didn't look at or speak to. But on the other hand at least I had people to go to shows with...
I really don't know what to do with myself now that I have found the long lost record and have seen my band after 3 years...
