23
there's something about the age of 23 that seems to have inspired and driven musicians and songwriters to reference this magical age in a slew of songs. maybe it's because it's an age of mystery and bewilderment, now knowing what the future or even tomorrow holds. maybe it's because it's an age of excitement, with endless possibilities lying in front of you. maybe it's because it's an age of frustration, of discontent with the way life is playing itself out. maybe it's because it's an age of longing, of wishing for life to return to the way it used to be back in grade school/ high school/ college. maybe it's an age of completion, of bridging that final gap between adolesensce and adulthood. or maybe it's none of those, or maybe all of them rolled into one giant life-sized burrito. whatever the case, here's my...
top five songs which reference the age of twenty-three:
- 23, jimmy eat world. "amazing still it seems/ i'll be 23/ i wont always love what i'll never have/ i wont always live in my regrets." great song, grows on you the more you listen to it. yeah, it's your typical 'pseudo-sappy emo love/heartbreak song,' but still very poignant and powerful. awesome tune
- pardon me, incubus. "a decade ago, i never thought i would be/ at twenty-three on the verge of spontaneous combustion/ woe is me." seriously rockin' song, plus it raises a valid question: is who you are today who you dreamed you would be when you were younger? and if not, how come? added bonus: first documentated use of the word "combustication," at least that i'm aware of. i love it when people make up words
- what's my age again, blink 182. "and that's about the time she walked away from me/ nobody likes you when you're 23." textbook case of age dissatisfaction, wishing for the good ol' days of years past. it never ceases to crack me up whenever i hear the radio edit version of this song with the line "the state looks down on mtv" replacing... um... the other line. yeah
- maintain conciousness, relient k. "because it's 17, 18, 19 routine/and here at 23 it's the same old me." falls into the "life can be so mundane and boringly routine" lyrical typification of this age. catchy tune, not the best track on the album by any means, but a good little ponderance about the need to break from our boring lives and live a little
- high five, calibretto 13. "even though we're hitting twenty/ and we haven't yet matured/ you know i think it's kind of funny/ that we're all a bunch of nerds." ok, so this doesn't reference the age of 23 exactly, instead settling for the broader age bracket of the 20's. nevertheless, this is a hilariously awesome song, and this list would be remiss without its presence. if you haven't ever heard it, you really should. really
i guess i'm still a kid at heart, when it comes right down to it. i still love skipping rocks on the water, reading some of the same books i loved when i was younger, playing with legos and waging wars on the battlefields of a risk board. i hate waiting... i want all the good stuff to happen right here, right now, not next week or the week after or years from now. christmas is a magical time, even without santa claus. i hope and dream extravagently, thinking my wildest dreams just might come true, then easily become crestfallen when they don't. i love driving with the windows down and letting one arm wave in the wind. i idolize my favorite athletes. i hate waking up in the morning. bugs intrigue me. i get excited whenever mom cooks one of my favorite meals. my room is usually rather unkempt. and so on and so forth. not that i'm discontent, but i think there's still a little bit too much of a kid in me to be really ready to be all grown up and everything that comes along with it
i did a bunch of errands today, and managed to forget to get about half the stuff i needed to, even though i made a list and everything. i did get bread and yogurt and a paintbrush, though, so at least i remembered some of the key items
i fell just plain worn out and empty, and i'm not even sure why. the young girl holding the penguin has me mystified, too
the end.
posted by Patrick @ 7:15 PM
3 Comments:
Hmmm. Will Patrick paint the yogurt onto the ceiling of the closet while he munches the bread?
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dude, high five is an amazing song. i dont know if you knew this but we played that song at our graduation (gabe and i). its also the reason my license plate for my truck said 2hifiv. you are like one of the only people ive ever met whos heard it. rock on!
100 years by five for fighting.
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