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Originally Posted by schizophrenicroom

here are 10 that i can remember in no order at all. do they have to be cultural?

1. seeing deerhoof with one of my best friends, club is packed to the brim, i'm being pushed against the stage because of the way i'm standing in a sort of weird-hug embrace, hearing all of my favorite songs by them
1a. coming out of a kiss and turning to greg saunier, and i guess he was watching us or something somehow while rocking the fuck out and he gave me this "score!" look that made my night. and getting a stick from him and a hundred thank yous for coming three hours early.
1b. meeting the opening band (harlem shakes), and continuing to message back and forth on myspace with them
2. walking around canal street, sat on a bench, when the cop pulls up and asks what the hell we're doing on a bench at four am sitting there
2a. crying my eyes out because it was a night where i felt happy
2b. my mother asking 300 questions, one of which is "did they have pot?"
3. the last two birthdays
4. halloween horror nights last year with my friends and little brother sean (as well as our mom and boyfriend in tow) and i realized, as sean was walking with us, how much he's grown over the years and how proud i am of him
5. not a cultural moment, but one day when sean was just getting the hang of talking (so he was around four), he said "i love sister" in his teeny, tiny voice and fuzzy elmo sweater and i think i cried.
6. ted leo opening for death cab, front row, and a guy walks up very drunkenly and whips out a lighter during some upbeat song off plans that i don't know. i'm serious, beer in one hand, lighter in the other. he had that too-small argyle sweater that every indiefuck in the place had and went on "DEATH CAB DEATH CAB" until some girl behind us yelled out to him to "put the lighter down, fag!"
7. turning thirteen was a big one. i was one of the younger ones in my gifted class and to finally NOT BE TWELVE YEARS OLD was the best feeling.
8. discovering sonic youth and pavement and asking myself why the fuck i didn't know about them earlier
9. star wars iii opening night with my dad, being one of two people not in costume. i remember thinking that i had no idea we had this many geeks in daytona. daytona is such a blank city to me because of all the touristy things and to see every girl done up as padme or leia or whatever was just so odd.
10. "web in front", archers of loaf
11. 9/11 was incredibly scary. they told us to turn on the tvs at school and to keep them on, and i remember this girl i kind of knew had an aunt working in the wtc. she wasn't in that same class i had that period, but it was common knowledge after the bell rang.
12. i can't remember what bands i listened to before i knew stuff like the youth, but i know i'd write their names all over my cheesy binders next to pictures of models i wanted to be like linda evangelista. i hope i tossed them out, because most of my binders years back are now kind of mortifying to think about.

...and when somebody asks me why i feel compelled to say on the internet how wonderful i think schizo is, i'll just show them this as a way of explanation.


anyway, some of my defining teenage moments (that i can talk about here anyway) are:

- when a childhood friend died in a freaky car accident when we were 14. 3 of us then went to my house and made an attempt to comunicate with the dead by hypnotizing one of us and using him as a medium. apparently, it worked.

-the last fistfight of my puberty (fists flying! roundhouse kicks! noses spraying blood like showerheads!). we shook hands and ran home when we heard the school principal was approaching.

-pissing on someone's shoes-- he was getting annoying, trying to verbally abuse me, which i found quite... insolent. i think we were 15. i don't know why i even did it, i just... zipped it out and started pissing on his shoes, in the middle of the street, with traffic around us. that's when i realized i was an ape, and reason had little to do with anything.

-winning my first boat race at 16. oh it hurt it hurt we were almost dead we were purple from the lack of oxygen and our legs stiff with pain but winning was so sweet, and we got very plastered afterwards on my dad's liquor stash (my parents were away on a long trip). it was the 2nd time i got drunk and UAU! i passaged!

-getting out of highschool and into the university, i had just turned 17, and it was the best feeling ever, until...

-i met my first girlfriend. i had other girlfriends before but this was "serious". damn! to finally find a beautiful girl i could relate to in a "deep" way was the most mind blowing experience of my life. i was forever marked.

-running into some the most amazing nerds on the planet at the university, i mean people who lived in caverns outfitted as labs, and they populated their own universes with their deranged minds, and read strange books which they loved to discuss until the sun came up.

there are others, but some tales i should confine to books, and i need to get back to work, im learning php today.