Were you aware?

This is a picture of me at 16 (the cusp of my adult life). My friend on the right is Colleen. She and I were tight for about a year.

Less than two or three months after this picture was taken (photo booth at Lucille's on Westport), I met the man I would end up dating for seven years, and eventually married and divorced. This picture to me captures the last moments of freedom I had before I was drawn into an adult relationship that most certainly smashed my romantic and emotional ideals. Now that all is said and done, I'm a tired, jaded woman.

It's not a bitter thing, just interesting.

Song of the day: "Nowhere Fast" - The Smiths.

Music Obsessions You Wish You'd Never Had (Part One in a Series)

1994 - Downset

Yes, I suppose they might have been more "street" than Rage, but that just goes to show talent isn't inborn ladies and gentlemen. I can take comfort in the fact I was only 17, though, and highly impressionable.

4th of July Tag Party (via Busy3)

Instructions:
1. Go to Wikipedia.
2. In the search box, type your birth month and day (but not year).
3. List three important events that happened on your birthday.
4. List two interesting birthdays and one interesting death.
5. List one holiday or observance (if none, make one up).

Events:
1925 - Scopes Trial: John T. Scopes is indicted for teaching Darwin's theory of evolution.

1977 - Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope opens in theaters and eventually becomes the highest grossing film of all time.

2006 - Kenneth Lay and Jeff Skilling are convicted for their roles in the collapse of Enron.

Births:
1803 - Ralph Waldo Emerson, American essayist and philosopher

1948 - Klaus Meine, German musician (Scorpions) (how awesome is that?)

Death:
2006 - Desmond Dekker, Jamaican ska musician

Observance:
United States - Memorial Day/Decoration Day, a legal holiday (1868)