Life is a complex thing. People make different connections everyday. How you deal with those connections effects your life and the way you live it every step of the way. I try to do my best with each step, but sometimes I slip up. I don't think I've ever make an overtly evil decision in my life. I try to be the best person I can be. I try to respect everyone I come in contact with. I like to keep my friends close and informed of my happenings. I think I'm doing alright - then I get some clarification questions about things I've done and I realize I can make myself a little more clear. Things get out of focus and I make a wrong assumption, then I have to clear it up.
Nevertheless, here is my second post in my new mixtape series of influences. One major influence on me was The Stafford family, particularly Melissa Lee and her parents Chuck and Dee.
I have no idea what type of terrible person I would be if I hadn't met Melissa at Oak Forest High School. My home life was rocky. I had recently moved to a new state and had very few friends. I spent all my time skateboarding, but I now went to a high school where I was the only one who rode a skateboard. It was jock city and I didn't know how to fit in.
I found the place I did fit in with Melissa. We spent 8 years together, from High School to living together with a dog and two cats in a one bedroom apartment in Chicago. Our relationship had a lot of ups and downs (but what relationship doesn't over an 8 year period?) I learned so much about everything from the Stafford family and I'm not sure I was ever able to thank them for it.
All of these songs have little stories that go along with them, or specific reasons for being included.
I look back at this time in my life and I'm grateful for how wonderful it was, when it could have been so terrible. Thanks to Brian Stuart for awkwardly introducing me to Melissa oh so long ago.
This is my compilation for Melissa Lee Stafford:
cabbage mix
Nat King Cole - straighten up & fly right
Bjork - aeroplane
Catherine Wheel - show me mary
Dada - surround
Lemonheads - rest assured
Cranberries - pretty
Kostars - don't know why
Weezer - in the garage
Fleming & John - ugly girl
Sonic Youth - superstar
J Church - yellow, blue and green
Dashboard Confessional - saints & sailors
Jawbreaker - do you still hate me?
Bad Religion - stranger than fiction
Secret Stars - some sinatra
Portishead - only you
Jets to Brazil - sweet avenue
Tilt - berkeley pier
Cranberries - daffodil lament
Bjork - the anchor song
Lemonheads - you can take it with you
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