December 27, 2009
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.] i hear the bells – mike doughty

so this one time, back when i was a freshman, i was having a shitty day for one reason or another—freshman year wasn’t my favorite chapter of life—and i decided that the necessary remedy was to play this song at full volume while dancing around my room like a crazy person. it was fucking GREAT; silly and exuberant and cathartic all at once. and just as the song ended, and i stopped to catch my breath, the phone rang. it was my friend, the adorable boy from upstairs that i had a huge crush on; and he said, “i like your dancing. look out your window.” he waved at me from two floors up, and for some strange reason, i wasn’t embarrassed at all.

every time i play this song, i think of that memory and i can’t help but smile.