VIDEO: third eye blind singing semi-charmed kinda life
two favorite lines from a song ever are in this song. can you guess which ones? (no fair tumblr fans guessing! :->)
and someday cara is going to tell us how she met her husband.
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December 22nd, 2008 at 2:11 pm #
Haha, thanks BFP!
It’s a pretty dorky story. As I was explaining at tumblr (bfp’s favorite line spoiler!), I was totally obsessed with the first album. I think you know how obsessed I am with the Beatles now, maybe? 3eb used to be my Beatles. I still think it’s a great album, and I was super depressed/in or recovering from an abusive relationship throughout much of the time when I loved it and it really did keep me from trying to kill myself.
ANYWAY, way back in the day before blogging was all the rage, there was this site called Open Diary. And it was a pretty novel concept, just a diary online. I had one, and am still best friends with some of the people I met there. One day, must have been summer, I was depressed and cruising around the site during the middle of the day, when these entries started popping up on the main page under the “new” heading that were all Third Eye Blind themed. The titles of the entries were all named after 3eb songs. And the person’s name was Third Eye Blind themed. And I was obsessed with Third Eye Blind. And so of course I had to click on the entries and read them. Turned out the guy writing them had a lot in common with me. He also lived in Australia, which meant that in that fragile recovery time in my life, he was safe. It was platonic love at first click. And then after emailing each other back and forth for a few months, it was real love. Long story short, he came here to meet me, I moved there for college, we moved back here to live and get married. We’ve been together 8 years now.
And I never, ever would have clicked on his entries and gotten to know him if we weren’t both completely, ridiculously obsessed with that band.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:26 pm #
Oh can I also just mention to my own credit that I’m not corny enough to have not tried to kill myself because of Jumper. It was because of my favorite song for years and years and years, Motorcycle Drive By. JUST FOR THE RECORD.
December 22nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm #
Cara, that’s got to be the cutest story ever.
I saw you ladies going back and forth on Twitter, and Jumper has been stuck in my head ever since. I need to get my ass home so I can pop in the CD. (Yes, I still listen to CDs sometimes… I’m so old-fashioned, I know.)
December 22nd, 2008 at 6:55 pm #
Long story short, he came here to meet me, I moved there for college, we moved back here to live and get married. We’ve been together 8 years now.
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh…so romantic!!!! I love that shit! (and on a more serious note–i think its so wonderful that music was a space of relief and comfort for you, I find music was the same thing for me, and I kinda get scared some times when it seems like kids/youths today don’t have the same thick textury music to hold on to during the worst times–music saved me too, I know it’s saved SO many of us–what will happen if music just goes totally irrevocably horrible/bland/corporate?)
but anyway—of course, I love the song for pervert reasons. haha. my two favorite lines–they are so soft and intimate and personal–and they put you into the position of allowing you to imagine being at that personal moment. and for me, it allowed me the space to imagine being with a woman in a personal intimate sort of way–which of course allowed to open up the kernel of queerness that had been (in many ways violently) shut down for so long. *I* wanted to be that intimate with a woman, *I* wanted to know a woman in that way.
You know–I don’t know where you’re from originally–but this makes me wonder if you were from small town U.s too. I mean–it never fails to astound me how many people of color/queer folks in small town U.S. come to feeling comfortable in their skins through music.
It makes me understand why all the hateful far right people are so scared of certain music. When it comes with a great beat, suddenly, queers don’t want to kill themselves and people of color are proud of themselves and we aren’t so isolated and alone any more.
Sorta like how luna says to harry about voldemort, “if I were him, I’d want to make you feel alone too”
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:01 pm #
the sky it was gold, it was rose, i was taking sips of it through my nose? or, hmm…..slideuparoundthebelly facedownonthematress ONE?
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:07 pm #
oh, my word, fluky, you just totally made me slip into blushing horny school girl mode…not sure why!
December 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm #
Yes