I like to listen to the music channels on Charter cable while I clean house. This morning, I heard a song that I’d sort of forgotten, Epic by Faith No More…which is a really cool song! But even better, it helped me remember Falling to Pieces also by Faith No More which I like even more than Epic and I’d forgotten all about. Thanks to Napster for the instant gratification–both tunes are on my mp3 player now.
I love that, though, when you hear a song and you immediately remember every single word and it takes you back to some cool memories. Epic takes me back to this assembly in high school in the auditorium. I was a junior or a senior, and they’d brought in this band to play the cool songs of the moment while wearing the cool rock star attire of the moment, and between songs, they would tell us not to do drugs, commit suicide, get pregnant or drop out of high school. I was still tripping from the night before and their anti-drug message made me laugh out loud just a little too much. Maybe I was paranoid, but the mop-topped lead singer seemed to really focus in on me (why the hell were we in the front row of a student assembly? we were never in the front row for anything) so I rallied my freak troops to bang heads to Epic and make it look like we were just loving the hell out of that assembly. It seems I even got an autographed photo of the motivational band for my efforts and enthusiastic (tripping my ass off) participation. WTF?! Anyway, that’s what Epic brought back for me…
Falling to Pieces reminds me of nearly wrecking my red Rabbit GTI (love quick little red cars, ya’ll) on a curvy country road near Tryon. I must’ve been rocking out to that tune when I was driving waaaaay too fast (me, drive fast? crazy, I know) after taking my friend home late one night. I remember the moon seemed so huge in the sky that night, the windows were down and the music was blasting. Going over a bridge, my car hit loose gravel and spun completely around twice…I nearly pissed my pants, but whaddya know, I didn’t hit anything, and when the car stopped, I was on the right side of the road headed the right direction. Thanks to my guardian angel for that, and I rocked my ass on home.