Sunday, March 9, 2025
Time: 2:20 PM
Song: Steal My Sunshine
Artist: LEN
Mode of Consumption: Listening to 94.7 FM while preparing lunches for next work the next day.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/4agp6oHofabdUedr0B1krj?si=45c1e91fb2be4bae
Back in the summer of 1999, I would get up early, say 6ish, I don’t remember the exact time, to go to the high school weight room. It was a requirement for those planning to play football that fall to work out three or four times a week.
The weight room was open early, around midday, and then early evening. Being a farm kid, the early morning session worked best, as I would spend the late morning and early afternoons baling hay.
After I was finished lifting this weight or that, I would return home for breakfast and turn on the TV to VH1. I think at 8 AM, VH1 showed a countdown of the popular videos at the time. Maybe they still do, we are strictly an aerial TV family now, and I haven’t watched VH1 in probably 15 years.
For most of that summer, “Steal My Sunshine” was on the list. It’s a video showing the band running around a beach town, if memory serves right. It was the perfect summer vibe song and a good one for a kid heading into their senior year of high school. Fun. Bright. Longing. All those things.
All these years later, I still think about seeing this video the summer before my senior year. It’s nostalgic, if nothing else, and sometimes that time of my life seems so close that I could turn around and touch it. Especially when a song like this plays.
Other times, that time feels like another lifetime. One so far in the rearview, you can’t even see it if you squint.
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