How’s she goin, b’y?
I’m going to interrupt the BeerBlog for a minute and ramble about something.
It’s been pointed out to me again recently that Cape Bretoners are weird.
The wonderfully talented Carmen Townsend and the Shakey Deals played a show here this week. Being a fan/friend of the drummer/Caper in Van, I put on my band t-shirt, took my Cape Breton flag off the wall, put it on like a cape and went to the show.
I fully expected that there would be a small herd of Capers there with mainlander friends in tow (which is what I had done). I know how awesome the band is and knew that people would respond well to a rock show like this. I also knew that even though I didn’t know any of the others from home going to the show, I’d still be able to talk to them and chat.
An example. I was sitting with my friends when a guy came running up to my table and asked “OK! So who here is Baby Jungle?*” to which I replied “Me! But I’m actually Older Jungle. You’re Ryan!” and he gave me a big hug and we talked for a bit.
*Jungle is my brother’s nickname. We’re big on nicknames at home.
Ryan said that he had been talking to Jungle that day and was told that he had to find me and give me a hug. I gladly accepted and we got on like old friends who hadn’t seen each other for a while. My friends found it kind of odd. Our “patriotism” is strange to people not from CB. I was questioned as to why we do this, what is the “Cape Breton thing”, why do we forge connections with total strangers based simply on the place we live(d)? Other parts of the country don’t do this (aside from perhaps Newfoundlanders). I cannot give a definite answer as I cannot speak for all of us, but I have my theories.
We, as east coasters, have to deal with our fair share of stereotyping. Here is a list of some of the comments I’ve heard over the years regarding NS/CB/NL.
“Well, you’re all poor out here so you can’t travel and you don’t know anything about world cultures”
“Wait, you’re not all poor fishermen?”
“You’re just a bunch of unemployed alcoholics/fishermen/uneducated hicks”
“Nova Scotia and Newfoundland are the same thing. No really, they are”
“I thought everyone out here played fiddles and stuff and lived on boats”
and so forth. Most of these came from people from Ontario and Alberta. When I lived in Alberta, I was given SUCH shit for my accent and had to deal with a barrage of “Newfie” jokes (despite only being a Newf by heritage) and actually got into an argument over the geographical locations of both NS and NL (people still refuse to believe that they are in fact 2 SEPARATE PROVINCES). I heard so many mangled attempts at mimicking my accent, lobster jokes and references to being stupid and “on pogey” (which I still hear in Vancouver and honestly, it’s not funny anymore). When I was at university, a good number of students from Ontario were surprised to find out that yes, we are in fact rather educated, speak English (and sometimes French/Gaelic) fluently and were not all children of retarded alcoholic fishermen.
I grew up in CB in the 80s-90s. I am clearly too young to remember the heydays of the steel/coal industries, but I distinctly remember the economical climate after those industries crumbled. To say it was not good is an understatement and the economy at home is still highly sub-par. However, I’m willing to bet that the vast majority of those who have secure employment in CB are quite grateful for it, no matter how shitty that job may be. It can be hard to get by, and I know many families, even years ago, who had members go elsewhere to find work and sent money home. Because of that economic downturn, yes, many people are far from rich, but it doesn’t mean that everyone is poor. We did (and still do) the best with what we can. It’s a small area, so a lot of people just ended up doing the same things and going to the same places for years. We’ve got shared experiences that will connect us.
We’ve had to grow up and live in an area with a struggling economy, that has some of the highest cancer rates in the country, and that’s home to one of the country’s biggest and grossest toxic waste sites. However, it’s also home to one of the biggest Celtic music festivals in the world, some of the most amazing scenery in Canada, epic weather bombs (White Juan, anyone?), our own tartan, our own flag, Gaelic/English road signs, fabulous beer, kitchen parties and a staggeringly impressive music scene. I am incredibly proud of the bands and singers and writers and performers from CB that have had success and have “made it” on a national/international scale, and I am just as proud of bands and singers and writers and performers that are making a name for themselves on a local level.
So this is what I think it comes down to. That Cape Breton thing. We’ve all had to deal with the stupid stereotype comments at some point. We know the same scenery. The same landmarks. The same local historical events (The last time the Oilers won the Calder Cup, when John Morris Rankin passed, the McDonalds Murders, the Cabot Trail, Mira Gut, Ingonish, Mabou, Inverness Beach, the Causeway, Tim Horton’s). We all know what it’s like to live there. It’s not always fun, it’s not always pretty, it’s not always exciting, it’s far from perfect, but it’s home. It will always be home. When we’re out, away from home, meeting someone from CB is almost like having a little piece of home returned to you. It’s nice to hear the accent, to talk about home and just chat with someone who, at a very base level, understands the culture the way you do.
An Open Letter To Katy Perry.
Because she’s all pissy at Gaga
Katy,
Notice I refrained from using “dear” as an opener to this. That would imply I have an sort of respect or liking of you. I do not. I have disliked you and your work since you released that awful “I Kissed A Girl Song”. And now you’re going after Lady Gaga, which just REEKS of jealousy.
Katy, you seem to be a little pissy that Gaga is using religious imagery in her latest video. Have you ever heard of Madonna? Have you seen the video for “Like A Prayer”? I seem to recall that getting a little bit of attention for some of the imagery.
I’ve written about you and your lack of talent before, and I highly doubt this will be the last time I do it. You, madam, are a hack. Lady Gaga is well on her way to reaching icon status. She can sing, writes interesting lyrics, works with wonderful video directors and is all-around entertaining.
You are not. Your Twitter comment, that “using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke” made me laugh SO HARD. Firstly, I was amazed you could spell blasphemy. But I’m guessing you use Firefox which has a spell-checker built in so it was auto-corrected for you. What really made me laugh though was the simple fact that one could very easily switch out “blasphemy” with oh, I don’t know, perhaps “pseudo-lesbianism”.
Yes Katy, that’s right. You using psedo-lesbianism as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke. You found someone to write an “””edgy””” song about ZOMGKISSINGGIRLS like it was the craziest thing on earth to do. Except it’s not, and your incredibly awful song pissed of a lot of lesbians (and straight friends of lesbians) that I know.
So please Katy. Do us all a favor.
Shut the fuck up.
EstroFest!
So Lilith Fair is back.
Um.
K.
I’ve gone off about the “women in rock” thing (i’ll refrain from going off about the Michigan Womyn’s Festival) but really? Can we PLEASE get away from making women musicians a sub-genre? (Sidenote. I met a kid at one of my universities who pronounced “genre” as “jen-air”. She was an English major…..).
ANYWAY. i had debated getting tickets to EstrogenFestival2010 because hey, it looked like they had some badass acts (T&S, The Bangles, Beth Orton, The Gossip). But WOW the Vancouver lineup is utter shit. Ten artists. That’s it. I can pay probably roughly the same price for a weekend pass at the Calgary FolkFest and see 30 artists.
Sigh.
Also, I watched the trailer for the Scott Pilgrim movie and I didn’t know if I should cry or throw up.
Song of ze day
I have a love/hate relationship with cover songs. I’m usually curious to hear an artist’s interpretation of a song that I enjoy (or hate, even, if they make the version their own). When I was wee, I was fiercely, intensely opinionated about Tori Amos and people singing her songs. Now I’m older and more mature and unbiased/insane and Tori is now a shadow of her former self. I felt the same way about Ani DiFranco and HATED that cover of 32 Flavors by….some chick. Alana something? I don’t remember. It was bad. And I was kinda mreh about Maxwell covering Kate Bush, but fucking LOVE Charlotte Martin’s cover of Cloudbusting and Placebo’s cover of Running up that Hill.
So when I went to Facebook today and read that Imogen Heap had covered Fori’s Cornflake Girl last night, I was terribly curious to hear it and some kind soul put a video on YouTube:
I’ve been an Immi fan for yeeeeeeears and as I clicked play, I wondered how she would approach this.
IT WAS AWESOME. I couldn’t believe it. It was a brilliant rendition and she owned it. I’ve heard a LOT of Tori covers in my time but wow. This is by far the best.
Song ‘o The Day, Round 2
While I am still remarkably obsessed with Siobhan Donaghy’s “Ghosts”, I have also been re-obsessing over Deceptacon, by Le Tigre, particularly this live version.
I fucking love Kathleen Hanna. I got into riot grrrl stuff when the media was starting to pick it up and run with it, but the ideas and goals of the initial movement were what drew me to it and still keep me interested. I’m in a women and gender studies program (though it really should be called feminist studies since we never talk about queers, men and masculinity or ACTUAL FUCKING GENDER) and a lot of our work is (unfortunately) feminist based. It’s biased. And I tend to get shit on for my beliefs. I’m not anti-porn, i’m not anti-men, i think men can be feminists if they want to, and I was basically hated at a university for calling the new women’s centre discriminatory because they only wanted bio-women to be allowed into the space and made it quite clear that lesbians weren’t particularly welcome. But that’s Calgary and that’s the mindset of a few militant feminazis, and that’s sort of what I like about riot grrrl. It started off as a musical movement basically; a chance for women to take over, or at least carve out a space in a male dominated punk scene in the Pacific Northwest. They encouraged women to join or start bands and play and there was a real sense of community and networking across the country. the movement is “””dead””” but the women involved initially still carry those beliefs and ideals with them now. Corin Tucker of Sleater-Kinney said she’d be a riot grrrl forever in “Don’t Need You: The Herstory of Riot Grrrl”.
I’m not a feminist.
I’m a riot grrrl.
The Manifesto
BECAUSE us girls crave records and books and fanzines that speak to US that WE feel included in and can understand in our own ways.
BECAUSE we wanna make it easier for girls to see/hear each other’s work so that we can share strategies and criticize-applaud each other.
BECAUSE we must take over the means of production in order to create our own moanings.
BECAUSE viewing our work as being connected to our girlfriends-politics-real lives is essential if we are gonna figure out how we are doing impacts, reflects, perpetuates, or DISRUPTS the status quo.
BECAUSE we recognize fantasies of Instant Macho Gun Revolution as impractical lies meant to keep us simply dreaming instead of becoming our dreams AND THUS seek to create revolution in our own lives every single day by envisioning and creating alternatives to the bullshit christian capitalist way of doing things.
BECAUSE we want and need to encourage and be encouraged in the face of all our own insecurities, in the face of beergutboyrock that tells us we can’t play our instruments, in the face of “authorities” who say our bands/zines/etc are the worst in the US and
BECAUSE we don’t wanna assimilate to someone else’s (boy) standards of what is or isn’t.
BECAUSE we are unwilling to falter under claims that we are reactionary “reverse sexists” AND NOT THE TRUEPUNKROCKSOULCRUSADERS THAT WE KNOW we really are.
BECAUSE we know that life is much more than physical survival and are patently aware that the punk rock “you can do anything” idea is crucial to the coming angry grrrl rock revolution which seeks to save the psychic and cultural lives of girls and women everywhere, according to their own terms, not ours.
BECAUSE we are interested in creating non-heirarchical ways of being AND making music, friends, and scenes based on communication + understanding, instead of competition + good/bad categorizations.
BECAUSE doing/reading/seeing/hearing cool things that validate and challenge us can help us gain the strength and sense of community that we need in order to figure out how bullshit like racism, able-bodieism, ageism, speciesism, classism, thinism, sexism, anti-semitism and heterosexism figures in our own lives.
BECAUSE we see fostering and supporting girl scenes and girl artists of all kinds as integral to this process.
BECAUSE we hate capitalism in all its forms and see our main goal as sharing information and staying alive, instead of making profits of being cool according to traditional standards.
BECAUSE we are angry at a society that tells us Girl = Dumb, Girl = Bad, Girl = Weak.
BECAUSE we are unwilling to let our real and valid anger be diffused and/or turned against us via the internalization of sexism as witnessed in girl/girl jealousism and self defeating girltype behaviors.
BECAUSE I believe with my wholeheartmindbody that girls constitute a revolutionary soul force that can, and will change the world for real.
Song ‘o the day
More like song of the month.
Siobhan Donaghy – “Ghosts”.
I’m sitting here sipping rye and coke, listening to that song obsessively and feeling oddly at ease, despite a fuckton of stress in my life. A lovely Aussie boy (Dae, you probably don’t read this but if you do, it’s because of you that I found out about this song, so thank you <3) posted the video on his Facebook page and I was instantly hooked. My girlfriend informed me that Siobhan's album was wonderful as a whole, and while she is absolutely correct, Ghosts is the standout track.
There's no denying that I enjoy music, and enjoy it to extreme levels. I sometimes have a revolving list of favourite artists (though after many years, my top 10 is pretty solidified) and I certainly have a growing list of favourite songs. Not just songs that I really like, but ones that I can literally listen to on repeat for an entire day (or days). When Tori put out FTCGH, I listened to "Spark" for an entire 5 hour car trip. When I got hold of the Dresden Dolls "No Virginia" I listened to "The Mouse and the Model"….well let's just say that's in the top 3 of my 25 most played songs on iTunes.
Some songs are ones that I simply love to sing along with (badly, as I am a terrible, terrible singer). Some make me nostalgic. Some are just beautiful. But in some cases, I just cannot give a solid reason as to *why* I am completely obsessed with certain songs. this is kind of one of those cases. It is a gorgeous song and it is calming, but there's something about it that I just can't quite put my finger on. Normally that would drive my inner OCD-self mental, but I'm ok with that. I like to have reasons or justifications for stuff but sometimes that ain't happening.
I also like to get into the debate with people over just the concept of a favourite song. Can you have more than one? If you do, then chances are you favor some or at least one more than others. Does play count accurately indicate the level of which you like a song? For example, my top-played song on iTunes ("Runs in the Family" by Amanda Fucking Palmer, if anyone's interested) is a song I greatly enjoy but it's not my favourite. And a live version of "Siren" is located near the end of the list. As is Sleater-Kinney's "One Beat" which is one I love so much, it's inspiring part of a tattoo sleeve I intend to get (hopefully soon). I don't think that my iTunes (or maybe even my iPod) accurately indicates my personal favourites, but hey, maybe other people are different.
Very few artists hit me on the level this one does.
New CD will be released this year. I’m ecstatic and am praying for at least one West Coast Canadian show.
Apologies for the lack of updates. My mindset hasn’t been great lately and I’m trying to work some stuff out.
2009 Album List
Yes, it’s that time of year again! The time of year i sit here, drink a lot and proceed to rant about music.
not really different from much of the rest of the year but this one has LISTS goddamnit.
ANYWAY. HERE WE GO.
2009 Albums
1. Amelia Curran – Hunter Hunter
I was fortunate enough to attend her CD release at the Company House (look up that term people, it’s a distinctly NS term and you’ll probably learn something in the process) and WOW. She was on tour with Melissa McClelland who I’d not seen since the 2007(?) Calgary FolkFest and I’d forgotten just how good she is in a live setting. her albums don’t do her justice. But yes, Amelia. I’ve been a fan since i was 19 and saw her perform in Hell’s Kitchen back when the Marquee was still called the Marquee. “Double Murder Suicide” is still my favourite song of hers to date, but “Hunter Hunter” is my favourite album. It’s dark, it’s sad, it’s emotional, it’s intriguing, it’s perfect. The lyrics are layered and tell of heartache, loss, love and life and can just absolutely crush your heart into a billion pieces. Amelia is not a particularly chipper songstress but there is no denying she has talent. For those interested, check out her website (google it) and you can get a free download of “The Mistress” which is hands down the best track on the album.
2. St Vincent – Actor
I really debated for a LONG time over which of the first two albums on this list would get to the top spot. Amelia won only by a small margin. I have nothing else to say about Actor except that it is brilliant, mesmerizing, lush and amazing. If you haven’t heard this, your life is incomplete.
3. Bat For Lashes – Two Suns
Ohhh my. I think I wore out this CD when I got it. Glass is by far one of the best opening tracks I’ve ever heard. The whole arrangement/production on the CD is fucking stunning. Her voice is haunting and gorgeous. I predict many more good things to come from Ms Kahn.
4. Neko Case – Middle Cyclone
This was my first real foray into the world of Neko. I’d sort of ignored my (now) girlfriend’s urgings to listen to her and I actually regret taking this long. This album is SO fucking awesome. I’m not a fan of it entirely (30 minutes of crickets? srsly? THE FUCK?) but overall it’s great. I probably listened to “This Tornado Loves You” and “Prison Girls” at least 20 times a day during the summer.
5. T&S – Sainthood
I will say right off that I don’t enjoy it as much as The Con but it’s a badass record. Except for Paperback Head and Alligator. Those are THE WORST SONGS THEY HAVE EVER WRITTEN. TRUFAX. (don’t argue with me, i know i’m right) The Con seemed to be Sara’s shining star album, but Tegan wins this one. I LOVE the pop-punk vibe on Northshore, and Hell is a fucking fabulous lead single (perhaps i’m biased because I love Vancouver, and spend time on the eastside but meh it’s a great song). I think Paperback Head is one of the songs they wrote together and if that’s what happens when they do that IT SHOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN. Pumped as fuck for their show here though even though it’s in the Metro Centre because the fucking whiny emo bitches put up a big stink about not getting tickets TO THE ONLY GOOD VENUE IN THE CITY. Argh.
6. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – It’s Blitz!
My initial thought upon hearing this was a disco inspired album was this: “OH FUCK ME THAT- oh wait, Karen O…yeah this is gonna be fucking stellar”. AND IT IS. Karen O is a fucking genius and as a band they are unstoppable. Dull Life is my ringtone and i don’t care how many people bitch about annoying music ringtones, I love hearing her shrieking at me whenever someone (erm, just two people i guess, since i’ve got specialty ringtones for everyone) call me. I love how it’s a huge departure from their last CD, which is sorta how they roll. And I like that. I wouldn’t want them to make a billion versions of Fever To Tell, no matter how much I enjoy that cd.
7. The Dreadnoughts – Victory Square
FUCK YES IRISH PUNK GODDAMNIT FUCKERS GO LISTEN TO THIS. RIGHT NOW. OR ELSE.
I went to their show here, got really drunk and moshed for the first time in like 10 years.
go listen. seriously. i’ll find you and kick your ass if you don’t.
8. Gossip – Music for Men
Well it’s about goddamn time they put out a new one. And how awesome is Beth Ditto? You cannot deny how fabulous she is. Since they toured and promoted STIWOC for so long and because it was so popular i was wondering how they’d follow that up. MfM is a great follow-up album and it stays in their vibe but also sort of gets into more disco-y, dance-y territory. I can’t hear Heavy Cross without thinking of my friends visiting me this summer and being very drunk wearing pirate outfits.
…don’t ask.
9. Metric – Fantasies
I will say it again: I hate Metric fans at their concerts. Or at least i hate their fans in Calgary. But this is a great record. I’d argue that Gold Guns Girls is one of their best songs ever. The bonus acoustic songs took a bit to grow on me but they are really good. I’d even say that I like this one more than Old World Underground, and i was OBSESSED with that when it came out. I will say though that Satellite Mind and Gold Guns Girls should have been the singles.
10. The Happy Hollows – Spells
If Sonic Youth, Bikini Kill, Marnie Stern and Sleater Kinney circa 1996 mated, this would be the offspring. I got into these guys sorta late, but OH MY SWEET TITTYFUCKING JESUS THEY ARE AMAZING. That’s all I have to say. They’re great. This is where rock ‘n roll needs to go in the future.
11. Imogen – Ellipse
I have a special emotional relationship with Immi, because my emo 19 year old self would sulk and listen to IMegaphone on repeat and mope about this chick I had a crush on. Ellipse is a beautiful record. Imogen has one of the most amazing voices I’ve heard in my life and Canvas was quickly added to my Top 25 Most Played songs on iTunes. I admire her DIY ethic and dedication to her fans almost as much as I admire her talent and ability to write music that cuts people to their very soul.
12. Lady Gaga – The Fame Monster
Shut the fuck up, it’s a fucking awesome pop album and Bad Romance is catchy as all fuck. Don’t judge me.
13. The Slate Pacific – Safe Passage
these guys are from New Brunswick and one night in the summer, my brother and I and our friend went downtown to see a few bands and these guys blew me away. I completely forget who the other bands were (oh hello alcohol killing braincells) but I remember just standing there thinking “wow. WOW. WOW! this is FUCKING AWESOME” so you should all check out their myspace. I hope they get some major success because their talent is far too good to just stay on the east coast.
14. Silversun Pickups – Swoon
I listened to Panic Switch 30 times in one day. Good GOD i love these guys.
15. Sarah Blasko – As Day Follows Night
It took a bit, but its really grown on me. Her voice is so incredible and the arrangements are brill. She’s one of the few artists that I can say have consistently put out really good, solid, impressive albums. I see many good things coming from her in the future.
Honourable Mentions
Stuff that I really loved but didn’t love as much as the stuff up there.
PJ/John Parish – A Woman A Man Walked By
Soap&Skin – Lovetune for Vacuum
Polly Scattergood
Camera Obscura – My Maudlin Career
Lacuna Coil – Shallow Life
Sonic Youth – The Eternal
Melissa McClelland – Victoria Day
Stuff I thought might be good or at least have one or two good songs but didn’t and even if they did have one or two good songs they weren’t really good for that long
Tori – Abnormally Attracted to Sin
The Asteroids Galaxy Tour – Fruit
Lily Allen – It’s Not Me It’s You
Songs (in no particular order)
These are all of (if not all, then most) of the songs that I was obsessed with at some point during this year.
Neko Case – This Tornado Loves You
Neko Case – Prison Girls
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Dull Life
Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Zero
Bat For Lashes – Glass
Bat For Lashes – Sleep Alone
St Vincent – Marrow
St Vincent – Save Me From What I Want
St Vincent – Actor Out Of Work
Tiesto feat. Tegan and Sara – Feel It In My Bones
Gossip – Heavy Cross
Imogen Heap – Canvas
Tegan and Sara – Northshore
Tegan and Sara – Hell
Tegan and Sara – It Was Midnight
Sarah Blasko – No Turning Back
PJ Harvey – Black Hearted Love
PJ Harvey – Pig Will Not
PJ Harvey – Sixteen, Fifteen, Fourteen
Amelia Curran – The Mistress
Amelia Curran – The Wrecking Ball
Amelia Curran – Julia
Amelia Curran – The Dozens
The Dreadnoughts – Ivanhoe
Metric – Gold Guns Girls
Metric – Satellite Mind
Glee (cast) – Don’t Stop Believin’
Glee (cast) – Alone
Glee (cast) – Halo/Walkin’ On Sunshine
Glee (cast) – Defying Gravity
Lady Gaga – Alejandro
Lady Gaga – Bad Romance
The Happy Hollows – Faces
The Happy Hollows – High Wire
Silversun Pickups – Panic Switch
Soap&Skin – Thanatos
Graduation
I keep seeing signs around here for specials on prom hairdo’s, prom flowers, dresses, tuxes and all that shit. My mother insisted that I attend mine. I had no desire to go. i hated (still do, actually) dressing up. I didn’t want to go through the hassle of finding a date and whatnot. But I ended up going. I also helped decorate for it, but that’s an entirely separate entry and one that I’m probably never going to address. Anyway.
I ended up doing the prom thing. Mother made me a dress that looked like something Stevie Nicks would have worn on the Rumors tour, except that it was blue. I also wore Birkenstocks. Fuck strappy, heel-y shoes. That’s about it for the memories though. What is especially odd, to me, is that I cannot for the life of me remember our grad song. They played an annoying celtic-y song at the actual graduation ceremony but I seriously can’t remember what they played at the prom as “the song”. I’m a music fiend/snob and have a weird memory for musical things, but this…yeah. I know the year before ours was that fucking god-awful Graduation Song by Vitamin C. If I hear it now, I get the urge to stab my eardrums with a spork. I have to wonder why that is. In all honesty, I probably just blocked it out, along with most of my other high school experiences. I never really understood the concept of the prom. Everyone gets dressed up, and in our case, marches around a rink in their fancy outfits then stand around and watch a slideshow of all the “”””popular””” and “”””cool”””” kids (’cause really, who else is going to be in those fucking things?), we dance with our parents then fuck off to get drunk. I mean really, what’s the goddamn point? If my mom wasn’t consistently harping on me and nagging me for 6 fucking months about it, I wouldn’t have gone. I didn’t care. I didn’t like most of the people I went to school with. I wasn’t that attached to the place and didn’t think it was the best time ever, unlike most people. It was actually really shitty and i couldn’t wait to get away. And what I really didn’t get and still don’t get is that people were TALKING ABOUT OUR TEN YEAR REUNION AT THE FUCKING PROM. WE HADN’T LEFT. Seriously is your life that sad and depressing that you’re counting down TEN FUCKING YEARS to get back and see all the same assholes you hung out with at lunch? Are they really going to be your best friends forever? Probably not. My best friend from then doesn’t speak to me now. Meh. Most of my “”””””friends””””” from then have fallen out of my life, except for a few and i’m pretty cool with that.
So how much did your high school/prom experience suck? Does anyone actually look forward to their reunions? Do you get all nostalgic when you hear that “””””special”””” graduation song, or are you like me?
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