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Days 5 & 6 - 30 Days of Music

I started Day 5 last night then I got sucked into the TARDIS and before I knew what had happened it was time to go to bed...not that I have a "bedtime" mind you, just that I was too tired to work on it anymore so you are getting two for the price of one today.





Day 05 - A song that reminds you of someone





There are a lot of these.  I guess I'll just list what I can think of off the top of my head.





Something by the Beatles reminds me of my ex-idiot.  One night, before we were officially "together" we were sitting out under the stars in the middle of the night (it was probably 1 or 2 in the morning  by this point) and had been talking but were at a lull in the conversation when the strangest song started playing in my head.  Something. So we talked about that.  The next day he had to take a bus home and heard it on the radio on the way to the station and again in one of the stations he stopped at along the way.  After that we decided it must have been meant to be our song.  It took a long time after we broke up for it to not make me sick to hear it.





We are Family by Sister Sledge and Girls Just Wanna Have Fun by Cyndi Lauper both for my sorority sisters.  Whenever we are together at a sister's wedding or at a formal, any time there is a group of us, we have the DJ play one or the other or both for us.  It's one of those memories that doesn't have a specific moment attached to it because there have been so many of them over the years.





Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet for my Kappa Sigma brothers.  I'll never forget "Wasting away again in Kappa Sigma-ville, searching for my lost pitcher of beer," and dancing in that absurd and possibly deadly circle without any shoes, praying that no one stepped on one of my feet.





Popular from the Wicked soundtrack for Jenni Barrett...one of the first times I ever met Jenni she sang Popular for me and told me that she wanted to legally change her name from Jennifer to Genevieve. It's characters like Jenni who make me so happy that I joined the sorority. Without that I never would have met her.





Burn by the Cure for Lisa Humphrey, my KHK big sister.  When I first joined the Kill Hannah Kollective, I didn't really think too much about it, didn't get too involved but then I started to see how much everyone cared about each other and took care of their own, how similar everyone was and different at the same time and started to think of it more the way I think of my sorority, as a second family.  The younger members have adopted Lisa as their second mother and that's fine for them but to me she's more of a big sister, partly because calling her "Mom" casts us in a bad after school special :)





There are a ton more but I have another day's worth of songs to add on here so I'll just leave it with this.





Day 06 - A song that reminds of you of somewhere





I'm not really sure that there are specific songs that remind me of specific places.  My brain works in a kind of six degrees of separation way and sometimes Kennedy, my favorite Kill Hannah song ever, makes me think of John Jr. and that makes me think of being at my aunt's house the summer after I graduated high school, watching the news coverage as they searched for him and his downed plane.  That's three steps between Kill Hannah and my aunt LOL





Grunge, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Bush, all make me think of Seattle in the 90's...somewhere I would have given up an arm to live.  Ocean Avenue by Yellowcard, makes me think of Corpus Christi, TX, but not for any real reason.