1. sweetness was grade ten. i had it on amiz tape miranda made for me, and we listened to it in the dark in my room.
2. ahh the used. blue and yellow was later in grade ten. i first played it for you while we were doing the dishes. we turned off the water, sat on my kitchen counted and played it on repeat.
3. ploud... grade 11 or grade 12? i don't remember. we watched empire records so many times, and we always tried to pause the credits to find the name of that song. then we realized we could check the internet. haha. i put it on my back-to-school mix (so beginning of grade 12, i guess) and we listened to it over breakfast at toby's on the first day of school.
4. coheed: light AND the glass, silly. that was definitely grade 11. my two clearest memories of that are listening to it in the dark lighting booth of 102 during a zoo story rehearsal. me and mike both pointed out our favorite lyrics (mine was "smiles staged in photographs", his was "carving her name across your arm.") and smiled. and you and i playing it in mr cruickshank's math class, through my headphones with the volume up all the way. and we waited for the part where claudio goes: "i'll leave the light on a - WHIIIEEIIIELLLE." that was the moment.
5. the next 10 minutes, what year was that? grade 11, cause we saw the play that summer, i think. sitting in the balcony at the berkeley street theatre, holding hands and crying from the first number right through until the end. and in the quiet moment right in the middle of 10 minutes, both of us sobbing and thinking the whole theatre heard us. After we met Tyley Ross and Blaire... something, who played Cathy, in the lobby, and we actually managed to sound coherent, even though we were still shaking.
6. our song!! we wrote that in half an hour on my electric piano, one night before dragonboat practise. you were playing me the cheesy chords from your "i'm alone on march break" song, and i tld you it sounded like a grad song. so we wrote one! and it was damn good in all it's tacky glory, despite what rob berger may think. and for the first time in my life, i harmonized on something other than thirds! YES.
oh and by the way, although we coined the term "moment song" while listening to "i miss you", by incubus, which was also on miranda's mix tape, we both know the truth about our first moment song.
2. ahh the used. blue and yellow was later in grade ten. i first played it for you while we were doing the dishes. we turned off the water, sat on my kitchen counted and played it on repeat.
3. ploud... grade 11 or grade 12? i don't remember. we watched empire records so many times, and we always tried to pause the credits to find the name of that song. then we realized we could check the internet. haha. i put it on my back-to-school mix (so beginning of grade 12, i guess) and we listened to it over breakfast at toby's on the first day of school.
4. coheed: light AND the glass, silly. that was definitely grade 11. my two clearest memories of that are listening to it in the dark lighting booth of 102 during a zoo story rehearsal. me and mike both pointed out our favorite lyrics (mine was "smiles staged in photographs", his was "carving her name across your arm.") and smiled. and you and i playing it in mr cruickshank's math class, through my headphones with the volume up all the way. and we waited for the part where claudio goes: "i'll leave the light on a - WHIIIEEIIIELLLE." that was the moment.
5. the next 10 minutes, what year was that? grade 11, cause we saw the play that summer, i think. sitting in the balcony at the berkeley street theatre, holding hands and crying from the first number right through until the end. and in the quiet moment right in the middle of 10 minutes, both of us sobbing and thinking the whole theatre heard us. After we met Tyley Ross and Blaire... something, who played Cathy, in the lobby, and we actually managed to sound coherent, even though we were still shaking.
6. our song!! we wrote that in half an hour on my electric piano, one night before dragonboat practise. you were playing me the cheesy chords from your "i'm alone on march break" song, and i tld you it sounded like a grad song. so we wrote one! and it was damn good in all it's tacky glory, despite what rob berger may think. and for the first time in my life, i harmonized on something other than thirds! YES.
i love you.
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although we coined the term "moment song" while listening to "i miss you", by incubus, which was also on miranda's mix tape, we both know the truth about our first moment song.
LAY ALL YOUR LOVE ON ME, by ABBA, in GRADE SEVEN.
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