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He ain't heavy...
Apr. 23rd, 2002 12:43 pmIt's almost my brother's 30th birthday. I am suddenly feeling very old.
I think of college like it was my childhood. I occasionally remember blurbs of high school. I remember when my brother went away to college, and I remember when we started getting closer.
It seems like a million years ago that he and I lived together in Puffton Village in Amherst. It was 1994 and 1995. Hell, that was 7 and 8 years ago. We /are/ getting old.
My brother is turning 30 next month. Once, he threw a computer joystick at my head. Once, he sat upright in bed, convinced I was hiding in his closet. Once, he gave me his favorite tshirt, because it looked better on me than him (a light blue Santa Cruz skateboard shirt, with Natas's current skateboard design). Once, he teased me about liking Mark Recorvits. Once, he made hydrochloric acid with me in the basement. Once, he taught me how to do donuts with the car in the snow. Once, he kicked me out of our apartment - and then recanted when I packed my things.
My brother and I have always been very different, but we have always liked a lot of the same things (and even some of the same girls). When I was little, I was sad an awful lot, and he would make fun of me and say I was overreacting, and a baby. Now, though, I see that he held a lot of his pain in, and it has shaped who he is and what he's like. I let mine go, and things are much different on my end. But we still like a lot of the same things.
My brother introduced me to, in no particular order: the Indigo Girls, REM, Simon & Garfunkel, skateboarding, punk rock, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 95.5 WBRU, using chopsticks, Billy Madison, the Greek alphabet, 7 Seconds, Jack Kerouac, The Dead Kennedys, beer, The Rocket in Providence (which I do believe later became Club Babyhead, which might be defunct), saying, "NOT" after stuff, and the Shower Ghost.
I intoduced my brother to, in no particular order: TinyTIM, The Basketball Diaries, paganism, Men Without Hats, Big Poo Generator, ER, Kids in the Hall, Jim Carroll, various girlfriends, Jeckyll & Hyde's, Chipotle, Voice of the Beehive, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Sounds like a fair trade. :)
I think of college like it was my childhood. I occasionally remember blurbs of high school. I remember when my brother went away to college, and I remember when we started getting closer.
It seems like a million years ago that he and I lived together in Puffton Village in Amherst. It was 1994 and 1995. Hell, that was 7 and 8 years ago. We /are/ getting old.
My brother is turning 30 next month. Once, he threw a computer joystick at my head. Once, he sat upright in bed, convinced I was hiding in his closet. Once, he gave me his favorite tshirt, because it looked better on me than him (a light blue Santa Cruz skateboard shirt, with Natas's current skateboard design). Once, he teased me about liking Mark Recorvits. Once, he made hydrochloric acid with me in the basement. Once, he taught me how to do donuts with the car in the snow. Once, he kicked me out of our apartment - and then recanted when I packed my things.
My brother and I have always been very different, but we have always liked a lot of the same things (and even some of the same girls). When I was little, I was sad an awful lot, and he would make fun of me and say I was overreacting, and a baby. Now, though, I see that he held a lot of his pain in, and it has shaped who he is and what he's like. I let mine go, and things are much different on my end. But we still like a lot of the same things.
My brother introduced me to, in no particular order: the Indigo Girls, REM, Simon & Garfunkel, skateboarding, punk rock, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, 95.5 WBRU, using chopsticks, Billy Madison, the Greek alphabet, 7 Seconds, Jack Kerouac, The Dead Kennedys, beer, The Rocket in Providence (which I do believe later became Club Babyhead, which might be defunct), saying, "NOT" after stuff, and the Shower Ghost.
I intoduced my brother to, in no particular order: TinyTIM, The Basketball Diaries, paganism, Men Without Hats, Big Poo Generator, ER, Kids in the Hall, Jim Carroll, various girlfriends, Jeckyll & Hyde's, Chipotle, Voice of the Beehive, and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes.
Sounds like a fair trade. :)
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