Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Time: 8:10 AM
Song: Last Nite
Artist: The Strokes
Mode of Consumption: Spotify – List of possible songs from the year 2001 for
Mixtape Challenge.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/3SUusuA9jH1v6PVwtYMbdv?si=802821bec7c64841
This is the second post concerning my Mixtape Challenge to
create a playlist of songs from 2000-2004.
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Last night, I took two allergy pills because I knew it would
help me to sleep.
The night before that I woke up at 1:30, and suddenly I was
wide awake and sweating. Nagging issues burst into my brain. An insurance issue
with the church. A contentious family situation. An approaching project at work.
A floundering writing contest entry. It’s strange how the brain works, going
from slumber to full speed ahead. Jumping from an idea of about one issue and
then springing toward the pitfalls of something else.
The current list is probably considered adulting. For as
long as I can remember, this sometimes happened. My memory recalls that as early
as grade school that I would spend copious amounts of time when trying to get
to sleep worrying about the next day. Homework I didn’t do. Conflicts with
peers. The usual childhood concerns that seem tiny today. Back then, I think I
felt like I was the only one that tossed and turned with troubles. It’s hard as
a kid to see beyond the scope of your own concerns. Maybe, most adults still
assume their problems trump the problems of those around them.
I can’t say.
Last night, I took allergy pills, and I slept soundly. I have
a foggy memory of waking in the middle of night, thinking it was near time to
get up, and squinting at the clock to see that I still had two or three hours
of sleep. No other thoughts made their way through, either subdued by the
medication or my brain’s desire to keep resting.
When I woke up, my brain took minutes to start firing on all
cylinders, and it was probably a half hour before I was ready to turnover the
running list of issues for the day.
I guess that’s just how my brain works. Hopefully some of
you will understand.
My five choices from 2001.
- Whatever Happened to my Rock ‘N’ Roll by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
- Last Nite by The Strokes
- We’re Going to Be Friends by the White Stripes
- Clint Eastwood by Gorillaz
- New Slang by The Shins
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