TTFT - HIGH SCHOOL

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Portrait of the Authoress As A High School Freshman

I was looking at old pictures from high school the other day (which seems like it happened to a different person, honestly) and decided the best way to express my feelings about that time in my life would be with a playlist. I had to go over ten tracks, even over twenty; I wanted it to be all songs that REMINDED me, not necessarily tracks that I personally liked, during my first two years of HS (before I started listening to the kind of music I do now). The reason this playlist is so varied is because my friends were all so different. My high school boyfriend was obsessed with nu-metal and played old school rap every morning in his car on the way to school. Of my two best friends, one was a burgeoning street punk with bleached blonde porcupine spikes and the other was a zinester who loved Radiohead and brit pop. A majority of the rest of my friends were into pop punk and ska, and all my sad poetess internet friends loved Tori and Ani. In addition, I played a LOT of Nirvana and similarly Seattle-y/riot grrlish bands when I was home. Strangely, they don't sound odd to me thrown all together here- is that weird?

I really wish Project Playlist had "Let's Go Bowling" by the band Let's Go Bowling, since I'm not sure there's any song that reminds me more of my freshman year of high school than that one.


14 y/o me w/ ultra hip dark brown lipstick, friend