| | BLAST OFF, BABY, may
1. may day! - elvis perkins in dearland
2. black tongue - yeah yeah yeahs
3. vincent o'brien - m. ward
4. i’m on fire – bruce springsteen
5. dink’s song – bob dylan
6. manana – desaparecidos
7. greater omaha – desaparecidos
8. prove my love – violent femmes
9. i will dare – the replacements
10. brand new start – little joy
11. new paint – loudon wainwright III
12. chelsea hotel #2 – lewis & clarke
13. middle cyclone – neko case
14. gigantic – pixies
15. most of the time – bob dylan
16. playing your song – hole
17. no dice – beirut
18. dig a pony – the beatles
19. surf wax america – weezer
20. rosalita (come out tonight) – bruce springsteen
i've been thinking a lot about legacy. graduation is in 23 days (hol-eeeee shit), pridefest is friday, the final liner notes just came out. i've been at lab for seven years, seven years in which i (mostly) stopped whining, made unbelievable friends, developed a consciousness of the world, learned to think critically, and essentially gained human form. my development over the course of my life at lab is my development as a person. so then to leave the nest, never to return in the same form (or to the same school, really, if we're being honest, which we are) requires thinking about what i will be leaving behind. i'm incredibly proud of the work that i've done, from liner notes to running the newspaper with an iron fist, to copy-editing the yearbook and filling it with love just like carla told me (hello, robbed), to starting AIDS action, to pridefest. and i'm selfishly wondering how much of it will be there in five years? and how much will still have my stamp on it? and does it really matter? well, yes. if the place has left such an indelible mark on me then why shouldn't i do it the same courtesy? i guess every senior class thinks they're the best that ever happened, but i think (and many agree) that ours is pretty special. i hope the senior letter in the yearbook says that explicitly enough, and i hope people don't know that i wrote it (although they probably will, on some level). in some ways, i want my words to speak for themselves, and hope that any ways that people feel about me don't influence the way they look back on the class. but i want to be there somewhere. i don't know. i'm thinking about my fifth grade yearbook quote and how i said i wanted to be remembered as someone who made a difference and i guess i'm trying to fulfill that wish to myself.
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