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Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Clark — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:33:26 -0000

You forgot Here's to the Night by Eve 6.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

DwDunphy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:21:45 -0000

But obstetrics is AWESOME!

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

DwDunphy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:20:00 -0000

There's talk in Phys Ed, it sounds so familiar
Called Xenophobia, everybody's scared of you
People you meet, they all wanna hurt you
They're all up in arms just because you're someone new

Py Korry Come Lately
The new kid in town
Hold your breath in the swirly
Or else you might drowwwwwwnnnn....

(From one who's ass was kicked many, many times!)

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:50:41 -0000

I know this is a hypothetical/thought experiment, but TMI! TMI!

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:48:19 -0000

If there's a song called "Don't Kick My Ass (Because I'm the New Kid At School)," then I think we'd have a winner!

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

DwDunphy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:06:56 -0000

So the Foo Fighters "I'm done, I'm done, On to the next one..." would have been more appropriate?

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

DwDunphy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:05:48 -0000

Eeeew. Listen to the song again with the ObGyn staring down the empty baby chute.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:04:10 -0000

Some friends of mine got married in San Francisco in 2004 when they first started doing same gender weddings at city hall. But knowing them, they probably would have chosen something to make everyone chuckle -- like "Hell" by Squirrel Nut Zippers

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Malchus — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:45:31 -0000

The first song in your mix also seems appropriate coming on the same day gay couples are legally allowed to wed in California.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:16:27 -0000

I wasn't one of 'em, but I think for the popular kids, high school was a high point of their lives. For me, it was the last 2 years of college. When it came time to graduate, I had some feelings of loss -- mostly for the experiences I had with friends.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:09:39 -0000

I had the honor of going to three different high schools, so when it came time to graduate, I really didn't get misty-eyed. Like you, I was ready to move on.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Ted — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:07:42 -0000

Now I gotta run back a re-read the lyrics to spot to fatherhood references -- if there are any.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Kittie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:52:56 -0000

Here's one - "Pulling the Plug on the Party" by Electric 6.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Kittie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:52:15 -0000

Four years of that... I still can't construct sentences.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Kittie — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:51:03 -0000

Graduation day was played up like the most important day of my life. I think they were trying to scare me, or play some kind of practical joke (guess what comes next! At least four tedious years of college, or McDonald's!), or attempt to instill guilt in me for not feeling at all nostalgic about high school.
Good God, high school. I have the suspicion most people with the gall to be nostalgic about high school is either delusional or a grown-up bully.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

Zack — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:29:50 -0000

Heh heh. That's kinda cute.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

hemisphire — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:01:30 -0000

"Closing time": songwriter Dan Wilson has said he wrote this about the birth of his child in a deliberately abstract way.

Re: Mix Six: “Graduation Day”

magnolia7281 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:11:00 -0000

heh - when i graduated from high school, ten years ago this may (!!!), i favored "angels of the silences" by counting crows. not so much for the entire song, mind you, but for the end:

"i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, i leave today
i'm gone, i'm gone, i'm gone, take me away"

you get the idea. not that high school sucked for me or anything; i was just ready to get the hell out of alabama. :)