tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63593262011-04-21T22:50:25.146-05:00The Gnome G SoundtrackIt may have become something of an adwriter's cliche these days to say that there is a soundtrack that accompanies your life...but it's true! Sometimes, all it takes is a blast from the past via the radio to bring back that very moment (inane or spectacular as it was) right back. I love it.Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comBlogger301100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1088543201456165982004-06-29T16:01:00.000-05:002004-06-29T16:06:55.336-05:00Song: Feed the Tree
Artist: Belly
Moment: This song brings back a couple moments. I think I first bought this in high school after seeing the video on 120 Minutes, so it gives a vague recollection of summertime and MTV. It also reminds me of my sophomore year in college, summertime also. I was working for an indie health food shop (The House of Something Better--and it was a great old Victorian Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1088542706677490212004-06-29T15:55:00.000-05:002004-06-29T15:58:26.676-05:00Song: Father Figure
Artist: George Michael
Moment: Middle school, maybe late 7th or early 8th grade? My friend Amy L and I were beginning to try out makeup. I used to love to match my eyeshadow to my outfits (oh, faux pas! I know that now...), and I had a heavy hand with the old blusher. Friday nights were often spent at one another's homes making each other over.Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1088542472462296712004-06-29T15:51:00.000-05:002004-06-29T15:55:11.443-05:00Song: Got My Mind Set On You
Artist: George Harrison
Moment: Sleepover in 7th grade at Jenny Garbacz's house. We prolly spent some time playing Lounge Lizard Larry (one of those PC games where you type in the commands for the game characters) and making crank calls and then feeling all guilty because our marks were so nice to us. She'd always been quite the fashionplate, and I still remember how Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1086990905165119582004-06-11T16:46:00.000-05:002004-06-29T15:50:29.426-05:00Song: The Reflex
Artist: Duran Duran
Moment: Summer, 1983 (84?). My very first rockstar crush was on John Taylor. He made made my heart flutter, for real. He was so pretty! Anyway, it was a summer night and MTV was doing their weekly video countdown, and I remember standing in front of the TV in my nightgown (a snazzy little number with red psychedelic flowers sewn for me by Mom) as this video Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1086990319616095442004-06-11T16:42:00.000-05:002004-06-11T16:45:19.616-05:00Song: Back to Life
Artist: Soul II Soul
Moment: Visiting Chicago sans parents with friends. Late high school (?). I remember heading up to the city for some shopping and hanging out with my friend Sean and then-boyfriend Craig (who is a bastard, no more to be said about that). I think we stopped the radio on 93 XRT and this song was playing as we drove up Lake Shore Drive. I still love this song,Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1086990106880555212004-06-11T16:38:00.000-05:002004-06-11T16:41:46.880-05:00Song: Steppin Out
Artist: Joe Jackson
Moment: being a kid in the summer. I think I was 6 or 7. I can still recall the video of the maid trying on the "fancy" black and gold dress and going out on the town and thinking how glamorous it all was. For some reason, I always correlate this song with the city of Chicago, which was the "big city" we would make occasional roadtrips to. It must be the highGiaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1084225909446852752004-05-10T16:48:00.000-05:002004-05-10T16:56:36.710-05:00Song: Closing Time | Intergalactic | Save The Night
Artist: Semisonic | Beastie Boys | Eagle Eye Cherry
Moment: Summertime, just starting a new job with Interim Technology Consulting. The first month or so was spent "on the bench," wearing suits daily to go and hang out in their coporate office in Oak Brook, across from Oak Brook Shopping Center (a fine outdoor mall). Shortly after, I was Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1080668096463902932004-03-30T11:29:00.000-06:002004-03-30T11:38:32.186-06:00Song: Waiting for a Star to Fall
Artist: Boy Meets Girl
Moment: Middle school. I think it might've been 8th grade, late summer/fall. I thought it was such a sweet and innocent love song, and I was doubly impressed that the singers were married to each other. This all fit into my innocent love for romance, and I think Breathe's "How Can I Fall" was also out around the same time (I loved that videoGiaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1076626220987657792004-02-12T16:44:00.000-06:002004-02-12T16:52:52.263-06:00Song: Hands to Heaven
Artist: Breathe
Moment: Nearly all of middle school. I must tell you, I was in love, love, lurve with David Glasper of Breathe. I bought Smash Hits and all sorts of import glossies that might carry a poster or two of this band. Even now, though I no longer carry the torch for David Glasper (I have my very own, very lovely David from Surrey, thank you), the song brings back Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1076625113379193122004-02-12T16:27:00.000-06:002004-02-12T16:42:43.403-06:00Song: Piano In the Dark
Artist: Brenda Russel
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Song: Two Occasions
Artist: The Deele (I had to look this up! I remembered Babyface being the singer in his white tux at his white baby grand in the video...)
Moment: End of the school year, 7th grade. At Jackson Middle School, the tradition was an end-of-the-year field trip to Great America. We'd arrive early (close to pre-dawn) and board a Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075838806228613662004-02-03T14:02:00.000-06:002004-02-03T14:09:05.530-06:00Song: The Power of Love
Artist: Peter Cetera
Moment: Summer, after 5th or 6th grade. Remember how big this Karate Kid film was (was it 2 or 3? It was the one with the Japanese gal in role of love interest). We had a neighborhood friend named Kim who had a huge pool in her backyard, which Lizzie and I scammed to get into whenever we could. One of the late afternoon pool parties with loads of Kim'sGiaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075838073665959882004-02-03T13:50:00.000-06:002004-02-03T13:56:52.310-06:00Song: Believe It Or Not I'm walking on Air (theme from The Greatest American Hero)
Artist: I don't know!?
Moment: Summer roadtripping with my folks. We took several long roadtrips every single summer, but this is one of the earlier ones I can remember. We were heading southwest from Indiana via southern Illinois and Missouri to visit my relatives in Tulsa, OK. I remember it being hot and being Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075837702627816612004-02-03T13:42:00.000-06:002004-02-03T14:25:56.106-06:00Song: I Need You Tonight
Artist: INXS
Moment: Seventh grade Valentines dance, got to miss the afternoon class periods for this thing. The DJ started off the party with this song. I remember walking into the gym with my girlfriends and this song going. Even when I hear the opening strums, I am taken back to being newly 13 and wearing my cute red vest and walking into this dud of a dance. True to Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075829654577631822004-02-03T11:32:00.000-06:002004-03-30T11:43:49.873-06:00Song: Sowing the Seeds of Love
Artist: Tears for Fears
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Song:Oh Father
Artist: Madonna
Moment: Christmas shopping at Water Tower Place with friends from my French class in 9th grade. Chicago was (and still is, to some degree) a magical place to go and feel all city coming from hodunk South Bend. Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075829321690572282004-02-03T11:24:00.000-06:002004-02-03T11:31:19.950-06:00Song: Way You Do the Things You Do
Artist: UB40
Moment: Journalism camp, summer between sophomore and junior years in high school. I was there at IU Bloomington's yearly summer journalism camp and hanging out with my friend Jenn Laskowski (we were rooming together). On our first day there we wandered up to the RA's room. She was this cheerleader blond type with a streak of rasta funk and this Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075407484866232532004-01-29T14:08:00.000-06:002004-01-29T14:20:17.233-06:00Album: Monkeygnome Tunes 10/12/02
Artist: Various
Moment: Getting married to my most fantastic husband, David (aka Monkey). This was our wedding favor CD for our guests. We threw it together in classic slapdash Williams style the week before the wedding (even though we had planned the playlist for months before the wedding--why we procrastinate, I have no answer). We were originally going to do Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075406644818261912004-01-29T13:50:00.000-06:002004-01-29T14:06:17.293-06:00Song: Just the Two of Us
Artist: Grover Washington
Moment: Tea party with Dad! I think I was 6 or 7 years old (probably younger, since I don't recall where Lizzie was at this time), and it was something like a lazy, rainy Sunday afternoon in the summer. I had this fabulous tea service set--it was a snazzy little number of 2-3 yellow plastic kidney-bean shaped trays that stacked on light brown Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075394381351940782004-01-29T10:34:00.000-06:002004-01-29T10:41:53.140-06:00Song: How Bizarre
Artist: OMC
Moment: Summer, driving my crappy Chevy Corsica to work daily at my first job out of school at Hewitt Associates. Loved the company, loved the people. It was a blast that summer, because we were all young and irresponsible enough to get drunk on "school nights" but not so reckless as to not get to work on time the following day (we were all hired because we had Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075393551057745312004-01-29T10:18:00.000-06:002004-01-29T10:28:46.153-06:00(I just spied this song at Amy's Soundtrack, and it knocked a memory right up for me too!
Song: If You Leave
Artist: OMD
Moment: My moment does come from the 6th grade. We had just moved across town and I was in a new school. One of my friends from my old school (Amy Foldesi, who also was the lead singer in our airband stint (see entry for Culture Club, "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?")) came Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1075159501660701312004-01-26T17:20:00.000-06:002004-01-26T17:27:09.920-06:00Song: Kiss Me
Artist: Sixpence None the Richer
Moment: Just moving into my house. I was a first-time homeowner, bought a fabu "vintage" (aka, old) cottage with hardwood floors and sellers' white walls all around. Because I had quite a month or so before my subleasor was to move into my old apartment, I spent the first few weeks of homeownership painting every single room in the empty house and Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074896016512599412004-01-23T15:54:00.000-06:002004-01-23T16:16:33.030-06:00Song: Valerie Loves Me
Artist: Material Issue
Moment: Sophomore year, around prom. No, I was not one of those underclassmen who were hot property enough to be invited to prom, but we had a couple of friends who were at prom, which was being held in the Great Hall at Century Center. Also, our high school proms were never cool enough to play Material Issue--I think this was the tape I popped into Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074814430781481212004-01-22T17:30:00.000-06:002004-01-23T14:39:25.543-06:00Album: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Artist: Fatboy Slim
Album: This Perfect World
Artist: Freedy Johnston
Moment: Early courtship stages with my hubby! We were both kind of shy and used trading music at work as excuses to meet up for a few moments (we were in opposite corners of the building). I often would listen to these when we would IM, and I later used them as some of my early Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074814182944361302004-01-22T17:25:00.000-06:002004-01-22T17:31:45.653-06:00Song: No Such Thing
Artist: John Mayer
Moment: Being in Punta Cana in the middle of February and getting engaged to my one and only Monkey. It was February 2002, and "No Such Thing" was in heavy rotation both on the radio and on my CD player at work (it was a busy period, with lots of hours spent here at the cube farm). It was mostly bad Latino-inspired dance music being trumpeted out in Punta Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074813885557512052004-01-22T17:16:00.000-06:002004-01-22T17:26:48.326-06:00Song: Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Artist: Culture Club
Moment: Fourth (?) grade, air band show at school. Our group did Cydni Lauper's "Girls Just Want to Have Fun," complete with shirts patterned with flourescent paint spatters (the fabric actually came that way; we didn't need to embellish) and Glo-Stick earrings and cardboard guitars fashioned from yardsticks. We rocked. But the thing I Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074804842293802632004-01-22T14:46:00.000-06:002004-01-22T14:57:57.810-06:00Song: Let's Hear It for the Boy
Artist: Deniece Williams
Moment: Last day of school, 3rd grade. I think it was a half day for us to just come back and clean out our lockers and such. Aren't half days the best? It was a lovely early summer day...still felt a bit like spring and smelled fresh and light and sunny. I remember all of us trekking out into the hallway and me stuffing loads of paper (Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074663035392934302004-01-20T23:19:00.000-06:002004-01-20T23:37:50.560-06:00Song: Here's Where the Story Ends
Artist: The Sundays
Moment: High school summer driver's ed. My friend Colleen and I were taking this class together (we would get out of the road test come license time junior year with this course!) and we lucked out and were both assigned to the same car, along with a boy named Vic and another boy I cannot recall for the life of me. Our instructor was Mr. WallyGiaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074662174840918092004-01-20T23:16:00.000-06:002004-01-20T23:18:15.293-06:00Song: Jenny, I've Got Your Number (867-5309)
Artist: Tommy Tutone
Moment: Early elementary school--foggy on what year now. Maybe 1st or 2nd grade. I was taking ice skating lessons weekly at the Joyce Center, and my dad's good friend's daughter was in high school at the time. We both were skating at the same session. When free skate came around, she was really cool and took me skating around with Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074661252611894432004-01-20T23:00:00.000-06:002004-01-21T13:40:38.450-06:00Song: Lights Out
Artist: Peter J Wolf
Moment: Fourth grade lunchroom. I think I had my customary salami samich, generic Doritos, packet of fun fruits, and a drink box (Hawaiian Punch? Capri Sun? Hi-C?). I definitely remember the lunch bag I had. A cutesy little pink and pink gingham number with a drawstring closure and a tiny pocket on the outside (for milk money?!). I think it was still early Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074660674762329222004-01-20T22:51:00.000-06:002004-01-20T22:53:14.716-06:00Song: True
Artist: Spandau Ballet
Moment: Halloween, third grade. I can still smell the leaves burning and hear the crunching we would stir up stomping up and down the blocks walking to and from school. I think I dressed either as a clown or Raggedy Ann (something where I had apple red circles painted most conspicuously on my cheeks). I lost a baby tooth while bobbing for apples (though, that Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6359326.post-1074636817188203632004-01-20T16:13:00.000-06:002004-01-20T23:41:40.343-06:00Song: Smells LIke Teen Spirit
Artist: Nirvana
Moment: Sophomore (junior??) year of high school. It was middle of winter, crisp and cool like it has been in recent days. It was relatively late, and my galpals and I met a group of friendly boys at Denny's (the ultimate hangout for all us poseurs), who proceeded to invite us to go and hang out at Leeper Park. Never mind it was 15 degrees out. I Giaohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04869601790941686834noreply@blogger.com