Track 2: I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)

So today the great wheel of topics danced it's typical derision of pi, and out of all things it could have landed on, the topic given to me was... childhood stories. Hoo wee, we're really shooting for Pulitzer prize stuff here.

Listen, I'm just as much a nostalgia junkie as anyone, if not moreso, I practically live in 1998, but that being said, I've always had trouble digging for stories to tell from my own personal history. Mostly because a lot of them are dis-interesting, at least to anyone who wasn't there, others are laced with inside jokes that no one will get, and others are maybe a tad too personal to sentence to the eternal Ferris Wheel of information we call the internet. Either way, I should probably just stop stalling and tell the story.

Alright, so I've never been a stylish dude, even today I'm prone to more than a few style mistakes every once and a while. I dislike wearing sandals without socks,  I wear a knit hat most of the time that looks like a result of Grandma's trip to Cuba, but probably the worst example of my style happened around Grade 3. (Oh how I wish that number was two less)

As a child, I mostly had just regular T-shirts and jeans (at least some things don't change) but right as I entered Grade 3, my parents decided to class me up a bit, and got me 3 heavily stylized, not actually all that fancy button-up shirts. I was pretty stoked at the time, because at that age, you're still looking up and down for anything that may make you feel or look older, so to me, my Yu-gi-oh, Superman, and-- I think the last one was Spiderman? Yeah sure. --Spiderman shirts were the pretty much a suit. I didn't wear them everyday, but when I did I remember constantly arguing with my mom about popping the collar. As the TV show Yu-gi-oh demonstrated (especially with the character on my shirt), you were about 1000% more cool if you walked around with your hands in your pockets and your shirt collar popped up as high as it would go. She would see me try to leave the house like this, and wouldn't let me until I had returned the collar to it's "proper," position.

Well let's just say it didn't stay there all day. And that gave me another brilliant idea.

I had a fake bow tie, I have no recollection of where it came from or why I had it, but for a few years I'd had a fake bow tie I'd sometimes wear around the house and when playing and such. It wasn't even close to real, seeing as it just had an elastic that held it around your neck. Well, to a child in Grade 3, the only thing cooler than popping the collar on your button up shirt, was putting on a bow tie. So I started keeping the collar down like Mom asked, which made her happy, but I DID start sneaking a bow tie to school in my pockets, and wearing it through most, if not the whole day of school.

I can only imagine what I may have looked like, some kid with jeans, a button up shirt with some ridiculous looking anime character, and a bow tie, running around and playing mini-stick hockey.

Luckily for me, I think the stunt only lasted a week or two until one day I walked home still wearing it. The moment my mom and aunt saw me, the questioned me, took the bow tie off my hands, and proceeded to laugh themselves silly at my juvenile attempt at style.

So yeah, despite any mistakes I make now, I really doubt any of them can top that.


Alright, song of the day is I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe) by Genesis. Now the special thing about the album this song comes from (Selling England By The Pound - 1973) is that it was one of the last ones Peter Gabriel did with Genesis before parting and starting a solo career, and almost every song features him and their drummer doing full harmony vocal lines. And that's special since Genesis' drummer is a little known chap named Phil Collins. Here's Phil performing it with Genesis after Peter left. Come for the intrigue, stay for the tambourine solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnsx8EkQmpo