Is there ever a smell, or a song, or just something in general that shoots you back to a certain place and time in your life?
When I listen to Siamese Dream by the Smashing Pumpkins or smell this roll on glitter stick in "tropical twist" I got from Bath & Body Works, I could almost close my eyes and be 15 again. It reminds me of getting ready before school 1999, 10th grade. My hair was dyed black with purple streaks and everyday before school I would do my makeup, which usually consisted of Joan Jettesque black eyeliner and purple glitter. The days when I would cut school and either take the bus to Amy's or Heather's. I remember the first time I ever tried tofu in Amy's old apartment, we would smoke weed and watch TV on her broke ass TV set that we held up with our feet. Listening to Hole in her room, trading stoner opinions on how strong Courtney Love's voice was. I remember when her little brother Aaron was about 12 and she made like 8 nasty scrambled eggs and forced him to eat it all LOL
time out, she just called me... haven't heard from her in a couple of weeks but she decided to call me as I'm writing about her. Weird. She must be zoning in on my brain waves.
Back to old stories. The same day she forced Aaron to eat 8 eggs, she also dropped a jug of grapfruit juice on the floor and yelled "Aaaaronnnn!" The kid came running in with a mop to clean it up, and to this day I'll never figure out how he knew to bring the mop, but holy shit that was one of the funniest things I ever saw. Tiny Aaron getting bossed around by Amy.
That was around the same time I started becoming obsessed with Led Zeppelin. I would come home and put on Early Days and Latter Days on my headphones and stare at my ceiling with my blacklight on.
Every weekend I would take a 5 dollar cab to the Little Neck woods and meet up with all those kids. I usually went with Heather. When we got there we'd smoke, then leave everyone to walk around the manor by ourselves. We used to say that an evil cloud hung over the manor. Heather and I always made up our own little weird traditions. We had this really fucked up idea once that incase we ever got shot we'd have to form a reflex that would counter-act the person shooting and shoot back. Ok that sounded confusing. Basically we would hit ourselves in the head and simultaneously pull a pretend trigger. I told you it was fucked up LOL. Heather and I used to get sooooo blazed that we would sit in her room having laughathons. We put on the movie Sleepy Hallow but never actually watched it cuz we laughed the entire 2 hours.
Yea I love memories, as you can tell. I just get this way when I listen to my old tunes. OH and Slayer - Divine Intervention brings me back too. Ok I'm gonna stop rambling here. If I have anymore strange flashbacks I'll make sure to come back and jot them down here. This picture below was taking in Flushing in 1999 at some drugstore, I think I was stealing. Amy and I cut school that day to go get her tongue pierced. She bought me a philly cheese steak right after she took this picture. I was 15 she was 16, she didn't end up getting it pierced that day cuz after she bought me that cheese steak she didn't have enough money lol what a friend. The top picture was also taken by Amy in her old apartment, I have no idea what I was doing.
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