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when i was a chap, i grew up in st. petersburg, fl, grafting myself to it's many beaches. I enjoyed the sand blasting my skin and the sea fusing my hair to wicker-we all looked liked pygmies + smelled of coconuts. You can go back to the beaches. There's a skeletal version of what they were before every square inch was condomaximized, but what can't be recaptured is the timelessness i felt back then. there indeed was a reason i experienced so many thrashings for getting home late other than the watch band etching my tanline. if you holiday for the weekend, or even an entire summer, you still feel the hustle of schedule, responsibility of meters + checkout times, + some inane sense that you're to get some money's worth of the room you shelled out for. the pre-employment version of myself (15) had no such trappings and could follow the days as the adventure unfolded; mapless, guiltless, on sunfried beautyquests armed only with lust, busfare, a Kodak Instamatic that took those goofy 110 cartridges + a T-shirt for the places that wouldn't serve the topless sexy me or so the sign on the doors said. I delude myself that upon retirement i may strike that air of enchantment again, but that serves no logic that the decrepit, SPfactor 50, sand shuffler could compete on any level with that purposeless, Coppertoned, nomad and i'm afraid his days are gone. Indeed, it is HIM I miss whenever i smell salty air or see the sun crash into the ocean. The Beach is just the Beach.

I just went through a garage rock phase back in the day. I love the Japanese bands, so awesome, especially the ones who sing Engrish phonetically...

The hubs likes TV on the Radio but I couldn't get into the guy's voice, too dramatic for me. Then I heard them on NPR and they were really great. Need to give them another chance. Anything has to be better than Hannah Montana at this point, right?

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