Boy, did this bring back memories of being in High school in the 70's. It was 1975 when "walk this way," by Areosmith came out. I remember hemming or singing this in the hallways(we all did). It brought the 70's and it all back when I listen to it on Youtube after so long not hearing it. what great music we had back then and the pure classic rock of areosmith and other great bands of the 1970's.
Aerosmith - Walk This Way lyrics
Backstroke lover always hidin' 'neath the covers Till I talked to your daddy, he say He said "you ain't seen nothin' till you're down on a muffin Then you're sure to be a-changin' your ways" I met a cheerleader, was a real young bleeder Oh, the times I could reminisce 'Cause the best things of lovin' with her sister and her cousin Only started with a little kiss Like this!
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school And your feet flyin' up in the air Singin' "hey diddle diddle" With your kitty in the middle of the swing Like you didn't care So I took a big chance at the high school dance With a missy who was ready to play Wasn't me she was foolin' 'Cause she knew what she was doin' And I knowed love was here to stay When she told me to
Walk this way Just gimme a kiss Like this!
Schoolgirl sweetie with a classy kinda sassy Little skirt's climbin' way up the knee There was three young ladies in the school gym locker When I noticed they was lookin' at me I was a high school loser, never made it with a lady Till the boys told me somethin' I missed Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor So I gave her just a little kiss Like this!
Seesaw swingin' with the boys in the school And your feet flyin' up in the air Singin' "hey diddle diddle" With your kitty in the middle of the swing Like you didn't care So I took a big chance at the high school dance With a missy who was ready to play Wasn't me she was foolin' 'Cause she knew what she was doin' And I knowed love was here to stay When she told me to
When she told me how to walk this way, she told me to
We all go though life with rose-colored glasses on, with reflections of the people who came in and out of our life. We wonder where they are now and how things turned out for them. How the years weathered them and tare away what they once were in reflecting. We can see where we were and how changed and revolved over time. With the passing of time, I reflect on my youth, with a grin and a laugh at the things we thought was earth shattering in our life. We now know that most of it was just trivial thing(s) that we went though in life. The games of who said what to whom about you doesn’t contain much true meaning now or then; Although then it tore though you and stung with each word that they said.
Where did all those people that I knew back then have gone? What are their lives like now and how did they change over the pass thirty or fourty years? All the people that I knew in the eight different states that I lived in are just a memory of what was. Now is only a reflection in thought, which is now just a place holder of what once was -And no way what is now or what I have become. Looking back is fun and wonder about all the people you knew. Even though, you have very little in common with them now, except the memory of a period in time. John Lennon said it best "In My life" on the 1965 rubber soul album:
Though I know I’ll never lose affection.
For the people and things that went before.
I know I’ll often stop and think about them...
Memories and refection are good as long as they don’t get in the way of what you are doing now and what your life is in the present.
Life down here in Florida is quite good. The weather is more like Spring/ Summer Year around. Still, I would not want to go swimming in November but the water in the gulf is warm as bath water in the Summer. The year around there is always a lot to do on the beach area and in town. The southern hospitality is well and strong down here, where your neighbors wave to you and talk to each other. This is such a big change from New England and the Yankee’s cold ways. Now we must understand that I am a Yankee born and bread and lived in New England for a good part of my life. I remember one account while living in Danvers Massachusetts, in the Spring in 2006 I was out in my yard and my neighbor was out in his yard across the street. I waved to him and said HI to him. He gave me this cold look and did move at all. It was like I just gone after him and his whole family with a chain saw or an axe. He never did say a word and just turn around and went on walking into his house. People in Massachusetts and New England is known to be cold and unfriendly; I am not saying that everyone is like this but they are known to be snobby and unfriendly. Maine was a little bit better but where I was living it was pretty much up in the sticks and a lot of country, woods and farm land - not being a country boy at all and like city life, it was not for me. Jobs in Maine are low, only if you want to work in the building trades, lumber jack, work on a farm, pulp mills or fishing industry. I did not live in Maine for long and this was my second time and last time that I would live in Maine. I lived in Massachusetts for years, from 1982 to 2004. Boston is a great Town and has a great new England feel to it. I do miss Boston and the feel of Boston.
So now I am down in Florida, where so far the nights and days are 57F/82F Degrees and it is still pleasant. The only drawback is the Hurricanes, but they told me the last one that hit in this part of Florida was in the 70's, most of then ver off to the east or head to Mississippi. As I said before, the water is warm as bath water in the summer. Up North the water in the summertime is still very cold even in the heat of the summer, so the weather is still not to bad at all here in the Sunshine state. I guess I won’t need my Snow shoes and X-country skis down here. Yes I still have them but maybe I will go up North to use them or down to the beach in the sand - they would put the net over me and lock me up.
School is going well for me and this class is a lot better then the last one. I am in a speech class now and I am not having any trouble at all in this class. It is hard to believe that there is only about a year and half to go before I am out of school. This degree is a four-year program. It seemed to be lasting forever at times and seems to be speeding up other times, but in many ways I am not looking forward to finish and move on. I don’t know why or how to put it into words, but some how it is going to be hard to leave school. I know that might sound odd but that is how I am feeling right now. It will be exciting to go out and work at a studio and work on film projects and animation but leaving school will be hard. In all, school has been a mix of good and bad times while I have been attending this school. Well I think that is it for now and I have said everything that I wanted to say for right now. Stay tuned for more in the up coming weeks.
Just the other day I was unpacking some of my books-Yes I have moved again. I came across my high school year books. I opened the grayed cover and saw the people and teachers that I once knew. The people that I laugh with and fought with during my time in Somerset County Voc Tech High School. High school back in the 1970's was like entering a snake pit. The teachers that I once hated and the ones that I like or just knew, and the kids with whom I was at war. Even though, now, while looking at the images of these people, I smile and I wonder where they are and what they are doing now thirty-six or thirty-three years later. Especially those whom I did not forget and were my friends with and join in the battle of High school. Those whom I did not forget and I wish I could. Those are the people whom I wonder about over the years. Even some teachers that I knew, who has passed away and those who are still living, are now gone now from those halls of Somerset County voc Tech. They have put their time in –most of them twenty years or more and then went on to better things. Some people who came and went, that made the place a little more parable; even now they are now just a memory of the halls’ they once traveled.
My best friend in high school – my partner in crime – was Curt Stewart; a very loud and crazy guy who was in hort shop and was once of the first person that I met when I first entered the school in 1975. You never know what he was going to do or say next. After High school, we even shared an apartment and went camping and went out to bars at night on weekends during high school, back then the drinking age was eighteen and most of the times they never carded like they do now. Another guy I remember and talk to is a guy we called Moose, He was a no Bs guy and keep his nose to the books type of guy-We never really hung around in high school. Pinto was another character that was a cross from Ozzie type of guy. Then they were a guy we called bubbles (A.KA Bob) because of his very large glassy eyes. He was like Pinto and I remember he was going to Jail for having pot and hitting a cop –He most likely went to jail or is in jail or dead. Duffy was a cross from those two and he died in 1978 in a car accident. They were so many I could name and I have not forgotten. However, these are the ones that I remember and in my class or the class before me.
Looking at these images on the gray pages of the year books, not all these memories are good memories. Still, now I looking at these images of the people, I grin and laugh at the things’ we though was so bad and hurtful. Now, I know they were just minor things in life and those people whom I once hated or those who dislike me, I still can recall their faces and names from so long ago. My shop teacher-Mr Koch who did not care for me and I did not care for him. He was and still is the teacher for Printing Shop. He was a very uptight_______ , which you ever wanted to see or meet. He drove a chopper and had long hair and looked like he was one of the Hells Angles. Yet after all these years, it was not a big deal any longer. I still remember the day he had kicked me out of his shop after we had words and I told him, "I did not give a _____ ," and he went out of the class and told me to go to the office, where they sent me to a different shop. It is funny now and I do not have any hard feels toward him now for that and I know it was my attitude and we just did not get along at all; although I was in his class for three years. I did not stay in the other shop for long and just went part time and worked my Junior and senior years full time at a packing company for laundry shop and handy wipes. I worked from 11:00 P.M. until 7:00Am and then I went to school for the first bell at 8:15AM-its funny how you remember small things like when the bell rang in the morning. The people that I would not forget and help me was Walter Howard, he was a very big guy around 6'7 but was a good guy. We talked and he helped me though those difficulties in high school. The other person that helped me and got me out of shop and just take the basic class was Mr. Fishvine. We always talked and he was a very easy going guy and got me the job at the packing company. He was the working student program adviser at the school.
Looking though those old year books brought back a lot of the good memories and bad memories; mix feelings about the people and the place I once hated and called all kinds of names. The times I skipped classes in my last two years at SCVTHS and going down the path by the side of the school and went to a place call "the due drop in, Owned by a Korean family. The woman was funny and very friendly and the daughter that was about my age, well lets just say she was very pretty and pleasant. The good times and bad times, the double date that Curt and I went one with his girl friend a girl named Rose, that I went out a few times. Those memories good and bad I will never forget and I chuckle at most of them and grin at the great times. The memories of the sneak pit are mixed with happy and sad times, but now I grin even at the bad times thirty three years later, and wish I could go back in time to those times and relive them again.
I just bought a new camera. It is the Fujifilm Av200. It looks like a great camera, even though I did not really didn't try it out yet. It is 14MP with HD video and still images. This should be great for images and great for taking live textures for my CG work. I am still in Games development and will be for the whole summer. It has been real enjoyable class. It has been a big change from Animation production. I thinking about making a 3D web page for my art work page and CG page. That would be fun and would be running on a game platform. I should try it out and see how it looks and feels. Summers down here has been really hot and been in the 90's. I have become tan now and enjoying being down here. It is just a whole different world from Maine.
The next two classes are going to be in game Development. This will be a big change for me and even-though I am not a big game person really, I am looking forward to taking these classes. I do play a game once in awhile but not but I would not say I am a gamer. Even after saying that, I am looking forward learning a bit about game development and maybe come up with a new game for on-line so all of use would be able to play it.
Now after saying that, What game would you like to see on here? It has to be simple so it would run on line and it won't take a year to develop it but what game type would you like? Cards, Boiling or... Anyway, Let me know what you think and about what type of game in the comments? I will be starting classes on July 11 for the summer.
I can not believe how long it has been since the last time I have been on twitter. Just click on the icon and it will take you to my twitter page and you can read what no good I am up to.
I have made the big move down to Florida and love it. Right now the temp is 90f and it is so much cleaner then Maine. I guess living in the woods and the winters are not for me. The area is nice and the people seem friendlier then Maine or Ma. I am up by Tampa bay area and they are so far ahead of Maine that it is not funny! In computer networking and many other things, they have Maine bet by a long shot. I do not miss Maine at all. I guess I got sick of the Gomers up there in the sticks. I guess I am not a country boy at all; I enjoy the city and city life. You want to see gomers, go up to Mansion, ME. That is the boon docks with a bunch that look something from the movie Deliverance! But now I have left them all behind! I will not go up to Maine again. Why would I since I am so far away and this is so much better? I am not saying they are all gomers up in maine but there are a lot up here and the more north you go, the more you see. The people that help me move were very nice to help me and a big thanks for that. The move went well and would want to see again and some I might see again. Other then that Gomers stay away!
YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE MAINER WHEN:
"Vacation" ; means going South past Augusta for the weekend.
You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.
You see people wearing camouflage at social events (including weddings).
You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both unlocked.
These are all so true for about 90% of true Mainer. ;)
School is going well and only about one and half years to go to finish my four year degree. I took Fiction writing or creative writing and now I am in Art history I and taken Art history ll all already. This one is an elective so I could take either for what I needed for my degree but wanted to take both of them. Other than that all is well and I am still unpacking when I have time and will do more when school is out, before summer classes’ start. That is about is for now, I just wanted to do a post and update all of you who read this blog. See you on the dark side of the moon!
Dan is Living on the South-East coast of the US. He is a n art student. He has many hobbies and enjoys the outdoors and cooking, plays guitar,paino. He had this blog since 2004
