Three Anecdotes
1.) This first one is kind of silly. The cover of Yellowcard’s Ocean Avenue reminds me of a road trip I went on last summer to Lake Michigan. We drove for hours and finally ended up at a beach on Lake Michigan. I have a picture of my Boyfriend’s sister that looks just like the cover of this album from that night when we were eating dinner on the beach.
2.) “Miles Away”- Yellowcard. The one song I can listen to when I’m missing KC, especially when he’s away at drill and when he was in bootcamp. It’s a good mushy song. But it’s actually about reflecting on the divergence of friends’ lives after seminal periods like high school.
3.) Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy is a cartoon version of what Elton John would look like through the eyes of Bernie Taupin who imagined himself as a mixture of “English farm boy and American cowboy”. That idea reminds me of moving from Mt. Clemens to Sterling Heights. The people here were so different from what I was used to. My new friends in Sterling Heights were like Elton John as a magical presence in his outfits and I was like Bernie Taupin looking up in awe in my overalls and cowgirl style pig tails.
Anecdotes
I had never thought about Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy quite this way before….
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