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100 Things, Day 1
100 Things, Day 1: I Want You
It's 1997 and my father is in the hospital for surgery to remove one of his kidneys. After not going to school (shocker) and waiting to see how surgery went (well), Mums and I return home to wait for the boy to get off from school. I'm killing time because none of my friends are home yet or... something and this isn't quite pre-internet, but it's still dial-up and very much of the one phone line in the house persuasion, so even if I wanted to get online or could have, Mums would have killed me.
So I veg in front of the TV. I channel surf, because that's what you do when your brain won't turn off but you can't sleep yet cuz clowns will eat you. And I finally find the answer to a question that had been bugging me for ages.
(they got the title wrong, but the video quality is fab)
The title of this song and the band. See, for a month or so, I'd been hearing it but everytime they got around to the chorus (usually a good indicator of the song title, particularly back then), something would happen. Someone would choose that exact moment to talk, or the radio station would fritz out, or water would get in my ear while showering. Y'know, the usual stuff. This also applied to the DJs announcing the song title/band info, so I just knew it was that really catchy song, and that didn't help me much. :P
But there it was! On TV and the whole video and everything! I stared, kind of dumbstruck. The video itself is a bit weird and when you haven't slept (I didn't sleep much to begin with, and worries about Dad meant I slept even less than usual) it's a bit weirder than that.
Mostly though, I was thrilled I had a name to go on so I could find out more. Also? Daniel Jones. I'm not the type to get all googly over a pretty face, but, well... Yeah. I could get all swoony just thinking about him. ♥
(I may have found his foot tapping/stomping/whatever adorable. Mmmmaybe.)
(crappy cap but I'm lazy.)
How the fandom managed to not split down the middle or favor Daniel, I'll never know.
But this, you might ask, how did this change you or change your life? That's the funny thing and why this is the video and not the band. The band is an entirely different story and will be the focus of another 100 Things entry. The video, however, did something far more simple.
It gave me something to focus on while I was busy freaking right out. My parents seriously underplayed the seriousness of Dad's operation and while I didn't fully realize it then, I knew something wasn't adding up... but I was 15, and while I love my friends, we weren't as close then as we had been before or have been since. My brother and I have always had a strange relationship, so I couldn't just lean on him, and extended family was out of the equation by this point. It was a strange time and I didn't have much to take my mind off my worries. Then along comes this song and this video and this band, and well, instant distraction!
When I fall for something (a little less so with someone, but not by much), I want to know EVERYTHING. So this gave me a way to channel my nervous energy... and the song made me happy. (Plus it annoyed the hell out of my brother, so that's always a nice bonus.)
It's 1997 and my father is in the hospital for surgery to remove one of his kidneys. After not going to school (shocker) and waiting to see how surgery went (well), Mums and I return home to wait for the boy to get off from school. I'm killing time because none of my friends are home yet or... something and this isn't quite pre-internet, but it's still dial-up and very much of the one phone line in the house persuasion, so even if I wanted to get online or could have, Mums would have killed me.
So I veg in front of the TV. I channel surf, because that's what you do when your brain won't turn off but you can't sleep yet cuz clowns will eat you. And I finally find the answer to a question that had been bugging me for ages.
(they got the title wrong, but the video quality is fab)
The title of this song and the band. See, for a month or so, I'd been hearing it but everytime they got around to the chorus (usually a good indicator of the song title, particularly back then), something would happen. Someone would choose that exact moment to talk, or the radio station would fritz out, or water would get in my ear while showering. Y'know, the usual stuff. This also applied to the DJs announcing the song title/band info, so I just knew it was that really catchy song, and that didn't help me much. :P
But there it was! On TV and the whole video and everything! I stared, kind of dumbstruck. The video itself is a bit weird and when you haven't slept (I didn't sleep much to begin with, and worries about Dad meant I slept even less than usual) it's a bit weirder than that.
Mostly though, I was thrilled I had a name to go on so I could find out more. Also? Daniel Jones. I'm not the type to get all googly over a pretty face, but, well... Yeah. I could get all swoony just thinking about him. ♥
(I may have found his foot tapping/stomping/whatever adorable. Mmmmaybe.)
(crappy cap but I'm lazy.)
How the fandom managed to not split down the middle or favor Daniel, I'll never know.
But this, you might ask, how did this change you or change your life? That's the funny thing and why this is the video and not the band. The band is an entirely different story and will be the focus of another 100 Things entry. The video, however, did something far more simple.
It gave me something to focus on while I was busy freaking right out. My parents seriously underplayed the seriousness of Dad's operation and while I didn't fully realize it then, I knew something wasn't adding up... but I was 15, and while I love my friends, we weren't as close then as we had been before or have been since. My brother and I have always had a strange relationship, so I couldn't just lean on him, and extended family was out of the equation by this point. It was a strange time and I didn't have much to take my mind off my worries. Then along comes this song and this video and this band, and well, instant distraction!
When I fall for something (a little less so with someone, but not by much), I want to know EVERYTHING. So this gave me a way to channel my nervous energy... and the song made me happy. (Plus it annoyed the hell out of my brother, so that's always a nice bonus.)