Friday, September 05, 2003
Nostalgia's a curious thing.I was just listening to Radio Benway (linked over on the left) and the title track of Disintegration by The Cure came on. I dunno... there's a lot of retro stuff on my station, but any tune from that album takes me back to what was a very special time for me.
It was around July 1989, maybe August, I don't remember... hot weather. A sunday afternoon, myself and a small group of friends were down by the river in Stony Stratford recovering from what had been a very drunken party. We had my portable stereo with us, drinking coke, cherry 7up, or anything else we could find that didn't contain alcohol, listening to Disintegration.
The melancholy of the tunes seemed rather fitting. There we were, a group of young lads, 18, 19, 20 or whatever, getting our heads together after what had been a great party, lots of beer, lots of young women, much fun.... and there we all were next day... all very single and not too thrilled about it.
So why do I consider that to be a special time? Sounds like we were a bunch of losers.
Truth is, it's that very innosence that I enjoy remembering. I know now for a fact that several of those girls had fancied the pants off of several of us, but being innnocent, mostly quite inexperienced, and far too polite (or shy) none of us had made a move that certainly would have had a favourable result. The potential was there to not only have a lot of fun, but also to do a lot of damage... and even though more through ineptitude than design, we didn't do that damage.
I look back on it now as the time we really started becoming the people we are, laying the foundations, and though I'm a very different person now to who I was then, I still remember it like it was yesterday.... and can't help smiling.
So we were a group of freaks, losers, drop-outs, and complete basket cases, but what we never were, and still aren't, is assholes.
Funny what a song can remind you of.
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Steve 11:01 PM [+]
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