Dakota

From George's Life Soundtrack --

- "Picture" by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow [2002]
To be sure, I never had a drinking or drug problem, and I didn't have a lover that I left and then went back to. So, "Picture" connects to my life in a very abstract sort of way. It became poignant listening material in December of 2003.
I did like Matt first, and then I started dating Jay. Despite Jay and my mutual attraction, it fell apart fairly quickly. I then started dating Matt, and after he didn't break up with me after our first fight (unlike Jay), he became my first really long-term relationship. I felt some guilt in my relationship about being attracted to Matt before him. Matt and JD were the reasons in my head that I didn't date Jay immediately after I met him. Months before, I had Matt's nakedy porn website link and he (sadistically) gave a free account there. And I went to it (curiosity and an open door will do anything) and I saw Matt naked for the first time and all. When I started dating Jay, I did not visit the site any longer. "I can't look at you while I'm lying next to him." I still talked to Matt (we were still friends), but I was always very cautious around Jay with mentioning him. Jay was (understandably) threatened by my initial attraction to Matt...
Eventually, I stopped lying next to Jay. But I never lied to him.

- "Something to Talk About" by Bonnie Raitt [1996]
My father had an affair with my now-stepmother in 1996. Well, it could've been earlier than that; I've never asked. But my father moved out in 1996. He was a minister at the Plainfield church and no one there was free of gossip there. "People are talkin', talkin' about people... I hear them whisper - you won't believe it!"
Yeah, and this time it was true: my father and Michele... This became their unofficial anthem. In the correct context (my father being a philanderer and screwing over his then-current wife) it's in terrible taste. But it was funky then, and it's funky now. I can't hear the song without thinking about them.
I always liked Michele anyway. My father sometimes makes good choices.

- "Oops! I Did it Again" by Britney Spears [2001]
When you are friends with a girl, and you are questioning your sexual identity -- do not make references to you possibly sleeping with her!
My dear, dear friend Jill, who's now at college and finally as inaccessible as I was, was the first person that I told was gay. In eighth grade, I told Laila that I was bisexual [which I honestly thought I was]. I think she either forgot, or it just didn't occur to be lasting 'cause I told her again in junior year (replacing "bisexual" with "gay") and she acted not at all surprised, but as if it was the first time I was admitting something like that. Jill I told first.
But before that, I made a stupid flirtatious remark to her about losing my virginity with her being there (in obvious capacity). I will never stop flogging myself for that, 'cause I didn't mean it, she took false intentions, and when I told her I was crushing on a boy named Mike from high school, she went into immediate triple-takes. "I made you believe we're more than just friends... it doesn't mean that I'm serious..."
She never did like this song after that. Bah. To lose all my senses... it's just so typically me. Oh baby, baby.

- "You and Me and the Bottle Makes Three" by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy [2002]
This is the theme to the Screening Zone, at least in my eyes. My first Rocky Horror theatre (audience and actor) will always be a huge factor in my high school years. They played this song when the cast would go out for bows. They eventually faded this one out, and started replacing it with "So Long, Farewell" by the Vandals... I'll always find this song superior.
Maybe simply because I loved dancing with Willow in her zebra Trixie garb and Danielle in her backwards Floorshow corset as I heard Larry yell out who was doing lights that night, "You and Me" will always be the Screening Zone.