[i may be a bird in a cage but at least it's your cage]

[minervacat]

oh my god, i woke up this morning feeling like SUCH WRETCH that i can't even put it into words. if i didn't have an assignment due and a lab to write in my databases class, i would stay home. how can one head produce this much snot? i have no idea. nnnnnnngh. *whine*

if you're smartlikejustin or me, last night's duke @ bc game was a question of not is the

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[caffeinediary]

If I have a "home" it's Falcon Ridge. I've been going every year for the past 4 years and plan to continue (although that may get interrupted next year if I do library conferences

[minervacat]

london calling! london calling always makes me think of the months i lived there, yis indeed. good call, cliche or no.

[triskellita]

hell, London Calling is my ringtone! that song rocks, and reminds me of my 6 visits!

[tablesaw]

1. "Monsanto"-The Negro Problem. There's nothing like going to theme parks ni the off-season, during the week "when everybody is gone."
   
2. "Free Fallin'"-Tom Petty. I've lived most of my life around Ventura Boulevard, and a good portion of that was in Reseda.
   
3. "Screenwriter's Blues"-Soul Coughing. Another Reseda song, but this one reminds me more of the many hours I've spent driving on freeways late at night.
   
4. "A Long December"-Counting Crows. This song was on the radio on my first visit back home after leaving for college on the East Coast. I almost cried when I first heard it.
   
5. "Our House"-Phantom Planet. This is the song that that makes me feel like my girlfriend is in my home, instead of thousands of miles away.

[minervacat]

"a long december" makes me think of being far away from home, actually; kind of the reverse of your reaction.

[traveller]

kaw-liga, hank williams. daddy says that when i was little, i would cry every time i heard this song on the radio. i don't remember crying, but i do remember the little radio in the barn and sitting on the gate kicking my feet and listening to it.

move it on over, hank williams. also a daddy association, he used to sing this one while driving. i always play it at least once, on any roadtrip, because for a while when i was a kid home was me and daddy on the road, and so.

kashmir, led zeppelin. it makes me think of the first time i heard it, played for me by my uncle kenny on the hi-fi in the farmhouse when i was six. and it makes me think of the afternoon, after he'd been gone for a while, laying on his grave on sunny afternoon with that song pouring out of the speakers of my jeep.

new york state of mind, billy joel. sometimes when i'm watching 'without a trace' and they do one of their pans of the city i choke on the homesickness, like, literally, i choke, and that's what that song does to me. i had another uncle, henry, and he

[minervacat]

shelter from the storm, bob dylan. the first song i play in any place i live.
the way you think about music is so close to how i think about it, and it makes me so happy to listen to you talk about it, that i just want to get you a beer and sit you across the porch from me and tell stories. *hands*

[traveller]

i was worried i'd gone on too much. :)

[minervacat]

never ever. :)

[smashsc]

1. "Sweet Tea," Cravin' Melon - Particularly the old self produced album version that starts with the clanking of diner glasses and a waitress taking drink orders. "All my plans are hangin' in the palms dear, all my thoughts are lost in Pawley's interest"
2. 2. "River Material," Blue Dogs - Back when these boys were my prom band. They always sound like home.
3. "Beach Medley," The Embers - Night on the beach, the heat of the day fading away, a high enough moon to cast a shadow, a boombox, a case of PBR dropped down in the sand at the water to keep it cool, and shagging barefoot in the moonlight.
4. "She Ain't Goin' Nowhere," Nanci Griffith - "She has no second thoughts by the road. She's got feelings that need some repairin' and she did not give a damn that it showed. She ain't goin' nowhere, she's just leaving. She ain't goin' nowhere she can't breathe in. She ain't goin' home and that's for sure." wanderlust and the road and peace.
5. "Subclassic," Danielle Howle - Most Danielle songs sound like home, this song in particular. "If you live in Little

[minervacat]

*makes gimme hands at "sweet tea"*

good list, hon. this is such a you list i can't even.

[smashsc]

Original release of Sweet Tea & 2nd release of Sweet Tea.

As soon as you start the second track turn it up loud for the diner noise and waitress then turn it back down when the song starts. I swear they recorded that noise at the begining at a Columbia meat&three called Lizard's Thicket.

The second version was produced for an actual record company record and is a little tighter and less playful but it does have an additional verse that I really love.

Most days I'm pretty good at being me, and the thought that I may be leaving home is making me start to miss is a little already even though I'm a long way from gone.

[minervacat]

thank you for those songs! i am enjoying them already.

leaving chicago was hard; it's the place that's felt the most home for me in my life. but it gets easier. listen to a lot of home music before you go. that helps. *squish*