Greetings from soon to not be sunny Southern California. I hope you didn't think Pete Chat was done for the year. I may have a blog post or two left in me.
In case you were wondering, the flag football game on Christmas Eve was great, although I didn't play that well. I had a pretty awesome Christmas with the exception of the Lakers getting beat, and I spent the day in Big Bear with my family. I am looking forward to a few more days of California Dreaming.
You may not know this, but it is quite possible you have a theme song. Like baseball closers, professional wrestlers, and sitcoms, there is a chance that when I hear the first few chords of a certain song, I think of you. Sometimes you even have that song as a personal ringtone on my phone. I assign you a song and that is that. My sister Jennifer likes Incubus so when I hear my phone playing Anna Molly, I know it is her. If I hear "Party in the USA" I know it's my dad. But what happens when you assign a song to someone and then you no longer like that someone. Uh oh, here I am being cryptic.
So today I was reading What The Dog Saw while happily listening to my iPod. I heard the first few notes and I thought, "Oh no, this song is ruined." The really terrible part about it is that I enjoyed that song quite a bit, in fact I think it was my favorite song this summer, but now when I hear it, it is inextricably connected to someone I no longer care to think about.
So I turn to you my loyal Pete Chat readers, what do you do? First off, am I the only person who assigns people songs? If you do this, what do you when the association ends and you still like the song but not the person it is associated with?
If I learned anything from this, I will be more conservative in the future before I assign a song, especially a song I really enjoy.
6 comments:
i have one thing to say about all this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydetPXoqn8Q
Ok. Would you like to pick out a ringtone for when you call me?
When Shacklyn calls me it plays Lady Gaga, but right now since it's the Christmas season I changed it to Donny Osmond's 'Mary, Did you know?'. Fancy.
P.S. I'm sad y'all didn't come up here!
If you have a song with bad memories to it... then you need to make some good memories to it too. And after some time, the good will win over the bad.
It's possible, I have done it.
Men det kan ta tid. Men om det är en bra låt så kan det vara värt det.
Don't worry about it. With time you will not be hurt when you think about the person you would rather not think about. The song will not be ruined forever. For a while, I was not able to listen to any song from the summer of 2009. Obviously this was because a relationship went bad. A year later we are back together, expecting our first child. So, don't write any person or song off. You never know what will happen. ;)
Ah Pete - You know I love me some incubus, I would probably assign myself "dig" though. :) Yeah, songs are like that - I even have sad songs that I listened to when Marc left for his mission that STILL make me sad. (15 years and a happy marriage later!) Weird.
PS - Marc and I are watching the A Team movie right now and the A Team always reminds me of you (and your red lunch box)
I would assign Danielle "Glamorous" by Fergie on my phone (if I knew how to do that)
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