The Resurrection

Over the weekend I found an old I-Pod that worked and I got the majority of my collegiate music collection back. Last summer my hard drive died a horrible death and I thought that it was all gone forever. It's so special to have such a big part of my life back. Today I listened to the Boy Least Likely To's album for the first time and a year and it just took me back to a time in my life when that band dominated me. It also brought back some reminders of my late friend Todd back. Being able to listen to the All American Rejects (lame I admit) again and Zox's version of Cannon just brought a part of my life back to me that I thought was gone forever.

Todd was a great friend. He would put up a hard front but I always knew that he loved me and would do anything for me. We had some rocky times over the years but we always emerged from them as friends. A day doesn't go bye that I don't think about him over three years later. He was the first major loss I ever had to cope with. I know that this makes me a much stronger person all these years later. But I would prefer to be a weaker person.

I know your looking out for me buddy.

"Nostalgia.
It’s delicate, but potent…
Teddy told me that in Greek, nostalgia literally means the pain from an old wound.
It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone.
This device… isn’t a spaceship, it’s a time machine.
It goes backwards, forwards.
It takes us to a place where we ache to go again.
It’s not called the Wheel.
It’s called the Carousel.
It lets us travel the way a child travels.
Around and around and back home again, to a place where we know we are loved."

- Don Draper

And it begins...

So I have decided to jump on the blogging bandwagon, possibly to be joined by some friends. This will primarily be used to bullshit about the minutia of everyday life, movies, TV, music, sports and whatever else.

I decided today that I want a cable company to develop of program where I can pay a rate for twenty channels of my choosing. I don't need all the other shit on my TV I hardly watch twenty channels regularly but I think it's a fair balance to pay $50 a month and choose what I want to watch.