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+ Wed, March  9

14. Weezer - The World Has Turned And Left Me Here

Hello dear, I know it’s been a while but spring break time is simply not computer time.  However, spring break has ended and to you I return.

This past Sunday was the first surprisingly warm, sunshiny day of the year.  With the sunlight reflecting off this year’s record breaking amount of snowfall brighting all, light on white, it was very hard to not feel fantastic.

Driving to my parents’ having the windows down and Weezer’s blue album on was a perfect fit.  Rounding the corner to the exit of the student ghetto, there’s a couple stereotypically smiling, running then embracing.  What’s with these homies?

Arriving there, Chadwick the iPod went back to sleep and my original blue album disc spun up.  Cracked case, worn and weathered by many hundreds of plays, it’s just as good as it was that May day in 8th grade.  Baccus still sits there in the insert, smoking his pipe with antennae buzzing.  There’s the amp Rivers sets his juicebox down on in the Say It Ain’t So video in what’s possibly the most perfect moment in all of publicly documented Weezer history.

8th grade.  My, how long ago that was.  I had just discovered this fancy technology that was starting to catch press called “MP3”.  MacAMP was still in beta, encoding took 15 minutes per song, your best bet was still to download songs off Hotline servers.  With your 56k modem.

I was a paperboy then.  Trusty Discman in bag, out I went.  Ah, there it is.  The tambourines at the beginning of My Name Is Jonas always remind me of how yellow-green those maple leaves were against that brilliant blue sky you only see in May.  The way The World Has Turned And Left Me Here seemed to be oh so perfectly written for me and my middle school crush.  I’m not sure whatever happened to her, but I do know is that the solid, carefree-ness of those early summer days in that carefree time of early ‘99 are forever imprinted on the blue album.  Top of my 8th grade game—gigantor glasses, Yoda shirt and all.

Now, to go to my garage and play my stupid songs.

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1 → Marty  –  (Mar  9 2005,  8:46 AM)

“The World Has Turned And Left Me Here” was the soundtrack to my first ever breakup, and I can say unequivocally that I never understood the song until that. It is perfectly written for that violent mood swing that accompanies a “Let’s just be friends.”

2 → Mike  –  (Mar 10 2005,  9:50 AM)

The theme song to my first middle school relationship was Weezer’s “You Gave Your Love To Me Softly” from the soundtrack to Angus.  Good movie, great song.  Too bad the production company refuses to release it on DVD.

3 → pd  –  (Mar 10 2005, 10:47 AM)

Oh Weezer, you and your musical potting soil for an entire generation.






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