Music Meme #5
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exhilarationDay 05 - A song that reminds you of someone
My best friend growing up, Elizabeth, was into Tori Amos like I never was. I mean I liked her - Elizabeth was sort of... very in tune with her music, I guess. I mean she would write her song lyrics all over her stuff, she'd learn all her songs on the piano... I did this with other artists but not Tori. I guess she just identified with her in a way I didn't.
Anyway. Elizabeth died, and her family, before and after her funeral service when everyone was looking at all the pictures and things of her (and I remember that her mom included this picture of Elizabeth wearing a leotard and holding a baton and making a 'this is so stupid I can't believe I'm doing this' face that she hated and never wanted taken in the first place, and her mom had put it in some other collage at some other time and she was like, oh my god mom, take that picture off right now - so I mean, being her best friend, I had to tear it off the frame at her funeral. I don't care who saw me do it. Ummmm lots of people saw me do it, and her mom, afterward, sort of took me aside and was like, Lara, if you want any pictures of Elizabeth, you know, just tell me which ones, we'll have copies made of them... I didn't want any pictures of her. I just wanted the one I knew she hated not to be displayed on an easel at her funeral) anyway her family played her tapes and stuff that they knew were her favorite songs, like the mixes she made herself of her very favorite music, and this one... well, I can't listen to this one ever without thinking of her.
My best friend growing up, Elizabeth, was into Tori Amos like I never was. I mean I liked her - Elizabeth was sort of... very in tune with her music, I guess. I mean she would write her song lyrics all over her stuff, she'd learn all her songs on the piano... I did this with other artists but not Tori. I guess she just identified with her in a way I didn't.
Anyway. Elizabeth died, and her family, before and after her funeral service when everyone was looking at all the pictures and things of her (and I remember that her mom included this picture of Elizabeth wearing a leotard and holding a baton and making a 'this is so stupid I can't believe I'm doing this' face that she hated and never wanted taken in the first place, and her mom had put it in some other collage at some other time and she was like, oh my god mom, take that picture off right now - so I mean, being her best friend, I had to tear it off the frame at her funeral. I don't care who saw me do it. Ummmm lots of people saw me do it, and her mom, afterward, sort of took me aside and was like, Lara, if you want any pictures of Elizabeth, you know, just tell me which ones, we'll have copies made of them... I didn't want any pictures of her. I just wanted the one I knew she hated not to be displayed on an easel at her funeral) anyway her family played her tapes and stuff that they knew were her favorite songs, like the mixes she made herself of her very favorite music, and this one... well, I can't listen to this one ever without thinking of her.
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Date: 2010-08-26 02:17 pm (UTC)And yea, Tori Amos...what a blast from the past :)
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