Modem Butterfly
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Mon Dec-27-04 10:51 AM
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It's been a long December and there's reason to believe... |
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...maybe this year will be better than the last
This time of year always makes me feel contemplative. I think about what happened over the previous twelve months, what I wish I had changed, and how time seems to be speeding up as I get older. I have a lot of vague regrets, things I have difficulty fully identifying to myself, let alone putting into coherent words. But I also begin to have the stirrings of hope as well. In one week it will be a new year, full of promise and new beginnings.
How does this time of year make you feel?
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Mon Dec-27-04 10:53 AM
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1. makes me feel like shit |
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another year wasted away. A new year of more of the same to come...
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Mon Dec-27-04 11:03 AM
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2. first, what song did you quote? |
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next, there are always regrets for what we screw up in the old year,but always the opportunity to get it right in the new.
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Mon Dec-27-04 11:11 AM
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3. "A Long December" by Counting Crows |
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It's a good song that got overplayed when it came out. I remember the first time I heard it, I was working as a headhunter and I'd just gotten my first big commission check after living largely hand-to-mouth for four or five months (in headhunting, you don't get paid until the employee has started the job and has been there for 30 to 90 days). The lyrics:
A long December and there`s reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can`t remember the last thing that you said as you wereleavin` Now the days go by so fast
And it`s one more day up in the canyons And it`s one more night in Hollywood If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would
The smell of hospitals in winter And the feeling that it`s all a lot of oysters, but no pearls All at once you look across a crowded room To see the way that light attaches to a girl
And it`s one more day up in the canyons And it`s one more night in Hollywood If you think you might come to California...I think you should
Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. And talked a little while about the year I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower, Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not showher
And it`s been a long December and there`s reason to believe Maybe this year will be better than the last I can`t remember all the times I tried to tell my myself To hold on to these moments as they pass
And it`s one more day up in the canyon And it`s one more night in Hollywood It`s been so long since I`ve seen the ocean...I guess I should
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Mon Dec-27-04 11:13 AM
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4. i love that song! i just couldn't place who sang it. |
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Mon Dec-27-04 12:53 PM
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6. this is one of my favorite songs |
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I would listen to it a lot in undergrad when winter break (and a trip back home to CA) was right around the corner
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Mon Dec-27-04 11:14 AM
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I feel spring around the corner and start buzzing with energy. :)
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