as i have a candle today
i feel that i should say something about happy birthday. but i can't think of anything witty, so i'll just say that one of the things that amazes me is how powerfully music can evoke certain people or memories. "don't speak" by no doubt puts me straight back in halls as a scrawny 18 year old with a massive crush on the boy in the ground floor flat. i would never ever have thought of him past the age of 19, if that song didn't always remind me of that year!

or you can have a friend that you've known for years, been clubbing with them, lived with them, heard 1000's of songs over that time, but there's always one song that sticks out which makes you think of them. eg i can never hear "get down tonight" without thinking of my friend ames and the stupid dance we always had to do to it. she thinks of herself as a really cool clubber and she'd be gutted, but kc and the sunshine band it is, old buddy old pal...

and "bright eyes". one bar of "bright eyes" and i think of my mum and how i'll never ever see her again and it simply has to go. (mind you, even before my mum died, that song still had to go, it's pretty shite!)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 22:41, Reply)