Sunshine

Throughout junior high and high school my family and I would go on a big three day weekend beach camp out with family friends. For a while I felt pretty lonely at those but when I was 16 or 17 my friends Casey and Derek came along with me. THis was in my heavy metal phase where I had dark long hair and looked kind of scary. Casey was a giant of a guy that also looked pretty intimidating. And Derek had black eye liner and clearly looked like he stole stuff from mall stores, because he did. And on the drive there I listened to this song. Case and Derek weren't super into it because it wasn't metal, it was more gentle emo rock. But I fucking loved this song. It was a bit angsty. A bit sad. A bit longing. But also a bit gentle. So as I drove from Simi Valley to somewhere around Malibu beach (a good hour drive through windy twisty and turny roads) we listened to this album in my very crappy 1980's sedan car.