Hmm, my favourite song, Losing My Religion by REM, was on just before. I associate more with the actual song than the video, which is seriously weird ass.
Have loved the song since it first came out, but my strongest memory of it was a pretty destructive one. It was the music I played in the background - on tape, so was rewinding and hitting play pretty well constantly, tape, so old school - it was the song that I played when I was swallowing about thirty anti depressant pills, with the stated intention of overdosing.
In 1995, after I obviously survived that OD, the second biggest association with this song is the REM concert in Auckland - with friends (when did I get out of that habit with concerts, movies and such?), and I was belting it out, pretty well at the top of my lungs. Although the song that sticks out from the concert is Everybody Hurts, and I was feeling very at peace with everything, in a hug the person on your right kind of way - although I managed to control myself, they were friends, but they weren't best friends if you know what I mean.
Hugging guys - hmm, who knows if I had done that back then, I might have become the target demographic for Brokeback Mountain LOL. If that behaviour is acquired rather than genetic of course :)
Of course, unless I think deeply about it, Losing My Religion nowadays just can be happy background music - I have blocked out 1993 Pauly and his thought patterns pretty well, unless I concentrate on finding him again.
Paul
Have loved the song since it first came out, but my strongest memory of it was a pretty destructive one. It was the music I played in the background - on tape, so was rewinding and hitting play pretty well constantly, tape, so old school - it was the song that I played when I was swallowing about thirty anti depressant pills, with the stated intention of overdosing.
In 1995, after I obviously survived that OD, the second biggest association with this song is the REM concert in Auckland - with friends (when did I get out of that habit with concerts, movies and such?), and I was belting it out, pretty well at the top of my lungs. Although the song that sticks out from the concert is Everybody Hurts, and I was feeling very at peace with everything, in a hug the person on your right kind of way - although I managed to control myself, they were friends, but they weren't best friends if you know what I mean.
Hugging guys - hmm, who knows if I had done that back then, I might have become the target demographic for Brokeback Mountain LOL. If that behaviour is acquired rather than genetic of course :)
Of course, unless I think deeply about it, Losing My Religion nowadays just can be happy background music - I have blocked out 1993 Pauly and his thought patterns pretty well, unless I concentrate on finding him again.
Paul
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