Monday, May 06, 2013

Is Beck's Guero back in?  I think it is.  I keep hearing it at Starbucks (right now, they're playing the "Sun-eyed girl" song that I always liked)

and when I hear it I go back to the summer right after college and before I started grad school, when I didn't know exactly what I was getting myself into and thought I might be making a misstep, but I did what I did anyway.  And I would wake up every weekday morning and go work at Dr. Wilson's, and my parents were so busy (because all five kids actually lived at home at the same time that summer) that I would take my brother Chris to his soccer practices and games sometimes.  And we'd drive to the soccer fields in Palmdale with the windows rolled down, playing Guero or Bloc Party's Silent Alarm (two albums that I also wasn't sure I liked, but I listened to what I did anyway,) and I would play them very, very loudly.  Because this is how I like listen to music, but also because I thought that Chris thought this was great.  And it was always really sunny, and I remember Chris shading his face, with mannerisms that were way too man-like to be coming from my little brother.

And I thought, "I might like to go back there," and then I thought, "maybe I'm there anyway."