Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Things I Used To Drink, But Don't Anymore. Kind of.



When I first went to University, I didn't really drink much at all. In fact, the first time I really got drunk was probably at the end of my senior year of high school, but the first time I REALLY got drunk was in my first year at Queen's. It was orange juice and vodka. Over the course of the year, I learned more about drinking, but really, I didn't. Once I got my fake ID and started going to bars (see: Stages, Cocamo, AJ's Hangar), it really became something I embraced - but I still drank really bad alcohol on a regular basis. One drink that one of my floormate Devin and I used to drink was Tang and Vodka. Add a little water, and voila! Instant drunk! I still don't know how I was able to wake up on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday mornings when we were getting absolutely hammered the night before. Now, I drink a few beers and I wake up with drymouth.

It's funny, looking back at my first year, I wonder how I was able to be how I was. I cut a lot of classes and barely got by. All things considered, I probably wasn't really that ready for University and being not only on my own, but in a foreign country. I was very immature (well, I still am, but you know what my point is here), and probably not really that ready for the experience that I had. I remember going to frosh week house parties (R.I.P., apparently) and realizing that in fact I was alone at Queen's. I wonder what it would have been like for me to attend Queen's with one year of life experience under my belt - it probably would been a radically different life for me.

That said - I'm 100% happy with how it went when I was there. So how does this all relate to music, since this is, in fact, a music blog? Not much, except here's a track by the Matthew Good Band, called "Hello Time Bomb". I was introduced to Matthew Good Band in my first year, and I dug them muchly. This song reminds me of sitting in my common room in Leonard Hall and watching MuchMusic.

Audio: Matthew Good Band - Hello Time Bomb | MySpace

(PS: It's strange. This began as a post about alcoholic drinks I used to drink, and it ended up being a reflective look at a time in my life from almost 7 years ago. Jesus. 7 years since I went to University. SCARY, folks, SCARY.)

posted by b, 8/08/2006 01:04:00 AM | |