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Day 7: A song that would be the soundtrack to your training montage
"Electric Pow Wow Drum," A Tribe Called Red
"Electric Pow Wow Drum," A Tribe Called Red
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I wasn't even single-celled yet and still we connect over it! I love musicI was in high school when this came out. Our mascot was the Tigers. Yeah...
It’s leg day, so I certainly will .Yeah it's fab - enjoy
Two for one on theseDay 5: A song you enjoy that’s in a different language
Day 6: A song that transports you to another place and time
I did not expect you to ever be so cliché.Day 7: A song that would be the soundtrack to your training montage
......No one? Really?
MINE THEN!
There comes a point where you just have to go with the flow. Eye of the Tiger is unbeatable as a hype-up song!I did not expect you to ever be so cliché.
I ain’t reading this, but this song was one I considered.Day 6: A song that transports you to another place and time
So I used to be vain about my intellect (I probably still am, but I also used to be). I am not proud that I used to be that way, but I also accept that it was true. I had to be the smart one. Until her.
Her name was Ginger. (I have a type, what can I say?) Red hair, light brown eyes, and freckles. A little skinny, but more just lean. And she was brilliant. I had known her from a distance since high school -- she had gone to a different school, and had a long-term boyfriend. She was nice, and we were friendly, but no more than that. She went off to college, I headed back East, and never thought I would see her again. I circled round, as did the years, and we ran into each other again. Both of us were free. And we just clicked. She was getting ready to enter her doctorate studies in mathematics, and not only was she smarter than I was, she was a lot smarter than I was. Her mindscape was filled with vectors and numbers in a way I could never understand. But she was grounded as well, and social. We flirted. We teased each other, sometimes mercilessly. Our friends thought we hated each other, but it was courtship. And we danced -- oak and ash, we danced. I took her to the Mayor's Ball, a charity even in Portland that used every room in the Memorial Coliseum complex, with some forty or so different bands in one night. Any genre in the city, you could find it at the Mayor's Ball. Dance, of course, and pop, but ska, rap, punk, blues, jazz, and avaunt guard stuff that defied convention, like The Hellcows. We danced to Dan Reed, to The Esquires, and to Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts. I taught her to slam dance to Poison Idea. I introduced her to Dead Moon, and Obo Addy, and Napalm Beach, and Leroy Vinegar. We opened up new worlds of music for each other, and danced to it all. When we rested, she had me make up stories for all the people who walked by. My head was full of stories, and she was enthralled by that as much as I was of her logic. We danced for five or six hours straight. Afterwards we ended up at an after-party, out in the woods. Maybe two hundred people. Beer, music, and a massive bonfire. Dancing. And this song.
It was everywhere that year, and everywhere we were. And when I hear it, it takes me right back to that moment. I can smell wood smoke, and her perfume, and sun screen. I can feel her slender hips under my hands. I can taste her lips. That girl. That summer. That song.
She broke my heart, back at college, with a guy on campus. I wasn't in love, but the possibility was there, and then it wasn't. Even that pain mixes with everything else. But she made me a better person -- took away the fear of not being the smartest guy in the room. And she changed my type: smart women. Oh, smart women...
It all comes back when I hear it. The song makes no sense. None at all. But neither did we --the math genius and the guy with too many stories. The girl who taught me the joy of being with a woman way smarter than I was.
That girl.
That summer.
That song.
"The Look," Roxette
Thanks?I ain’t reading this, but this song was one I considered.
Fuck.Day 7: A song that would be the soundtrack to your training montage
This one all day long
I had forgotten all about this song. Loved it.Two for one on these
Kyu Sakamoto - Sukiyaki