Music Meme - Day 22

[goodolmike]

Day 22. A song that you listen to when you’re sad

This one is kind of a stretch, but I think it'll be fun. I don't usually think, "I'm sad", then put on a record, but I can think of a sad moment and a corresponding song.

Until I was eleven, I went to a tiny, private school. My entire grade was 15 people, and I didn't like any of them. On top of that, I was super shy and weird.

My family moved to Rancho Penasquitos (the worst place ever) the summer before 6th grade. Suddenly, now at a public school, I found myself surrounded by strangers who all seemed to know each other from years before. I became even more introverted and weird.

For Halloween, I made my own costume out of paint and a cardboard box. I was Matt Trakker from the cartoon M.A.S.K.

The second I arrived at school, I realized that I was completely out of my element. Everyone else was a vampire or a punk or something relatively cool. Most kids were too cool for a costume at all. Here I was with a homemade, cartoon costume. It was an epic failure. I was sad.

The M.A.S.K. Theme

Lesson learned: Sometimes, you gotta reel it in, just a little.

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Comments

[[snuggs]]

[huxbear.livejournal.com]

That was such a touching and revealing recollection, buddy... [[tummyrubs]]

Thank-you... :o)

Re: [[snuggs]]

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I really had trouble picking a song for this one, and then this memory came out of nowhere.

[murmston.livejournal.com]

actually that works perfect because its a sad song "no one knows what lies behind their masquerade"...

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, see?!

[titoagogo.livejournal.com]

Great! Now my eyes are sweating!

and GOD! how I loved M.A.S.K.!

Thank-you for that.

[caestus.livejournal.com]

I am all sorts of empathy.

Also, I always thought his flying car would be a bit chilly, what with the doors and all that.

Also, Miles Mayhem was hot (and as I just noted in a forum looking for pix thereof) indeed should be played by a moustached Brian Cox:




(Source here. Scroll down.)

Re: Thank-you for that.

[goodolmike.livejournal.com]

Your comment is all kinds of awesome.

Flying car=totally cold!
Miles Mayhem, I was just thinking that.
I love me some Brian Cox. He is a lobo.

[(Anonymous)]

I liked Rancho Penasquitos (maybe it's cause i live in crappy east county now).
Poor little mike. I always thought you were cool.
- Cherie