Spring and Fall are strong triggers of nostalgia for me. It probably has something to do with the rapid change of seasons that burns positive events into my brain. And there's some rather specific things that start to occur to me around mid-March though April.
The first is The Drovers. They're a small Irish band out of Chicago. They had a part in the '94 movie Blink, with Madeleine Stowe as a member of the band. This was where Atikay first heard of them. She went and bought their album, World of Monsters around the time she had rented the movie and, as she liked to do back then, watched it about 800 times. Thus, there was no escaping the film. I put Blink up there with Clue and Cat Ballou in the category of Most Unintentionally Repeat-Viewed Movies of All Time.
So when she got the album, she repeatedly played it ad nauseum as well. I was starting to spend a lot of time on the new PC in the living room (a whooping 486 with a huge 125 MB hard drive!) so, like the movie, there was no escaping the music. But the tunes were pretty good. And soon I had stolen her CD and was copying it to tape for the long rides to see Tine.
Since then it has become a part of the whole St. Patrick's Day affair. And I've incorporated it into my own Springtime rituals. Of which we are in full swing at the moment.
But the best thing I've found is that they've released some of their stuff, including the whole World of Monsters CD as MP3 files you can download for free.
Sweet.
Oh, yeah, --no Pirate Game recap yet. :P
posted by Evil Wayne @ 10:14 AM
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