Don't Stop Believin'

[sisabet]

Today I checked my mail. Today I found a CD mailer from a CD store I've never ordered from. There might have been a moment of concern when I worried that perhaps I had signed up for a CD deal while in a dissociative state and just didn't remember it. Then I realized that I don't really even believe in dissociative disorders working in this way so, no. I didn't.

Then I opened the mailer. Dude.

Then I thanked GOD it was a gorgeous clear day in the 80's and I got into my car, rolled down all the windows that roll down (my car is sooo ghetto) and opened the sunroof.

Then I hit the 30 minutes of open road between me and work - all the while BLASTING my speakers and pumping my fist through the sunroof (like ya do) and singing AT THE TOP OF MY LUNGS:

One day, love will find you
Break those chains that bind you.
One night will remind you
How we touched and went our Separate Ways!

In my head there were helicoptors. In yours too, as I tell this story, I'd wager.

Of course I have to start confronting people after work about this:

heres_luck: Well, I think we can safely say the Journey isn't my fault.
heres_luck: or Lum's.
sisabet: well yes
sisabet: but someone had to have sent it
sisabet: Journey doesn't just show up one day
sisabet: or does it?
heres_luck: I was going to say
heres_luck: a lot of '80s radio might make more sense if that sort of thing were true
renenet: omg, it's like Benji
sisabet:yes
sisabet: it is just like Benji

So, just in case the Journey is in fact, NOT just like Benji, and showed up one day cause I am its true, best home - to whomever arranged for the copy of Journey's Greatest Hits to follow me home, thank you. In fact - tell me who you are so I can thank you properly. OR claim anonymous credit. In fact - tell me one minute you would love to see vidded of anything (well that I have - and you know I have JOURNEY) and I can do it. Cause you made my day a lot more fun. Also, John is TOTALLY just a small town girl living in a lonely world, don't you think? And Rodney was SO BORN AND RAISED IN SOUTH DETROIT (it is across the street from Canada. I know these things). Teyla can be the singer in the smokey room. It just goes on and on and on and on!!

*me does happy spazz dance*

Streetlights, PEOPLE
Living just to find EMOTION!

Comments

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

Yea but then he took the midnight train going anywhere.

It's been downhill since then.


Come to me with open arms, Sis. I have missed you.

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Hoping you'll see...what your love means to me...

That song is SO about Angel and Spike.

[kita0610.livejournal.com]

You know, I think I could make ANY song about Spike and Angel.

[barkley.livejournal.com]

OMG, it does, and the wormhole is the boulevard you go up and down. Unless that's the big front steps. (But do people ever go up the steps outside of the Rising? Always with the down the steps.)

And you having Journey is a wonderful and right thing.

[par-avion.livejournal.com]

Awesome! It's a great song to sing along with. I seem to have lost/damaged the cassette in the last 23 years, but when I joined Columbia House waaaay back in 1983, Separate Ways was on one of the first tapes I ever owned:

Various Artists / Gold & Platinum Vol.1
Track Title
1. Maneater -- Hall & Oates
2. Girls Just Want To Have Fun -- Cyndi Lauper
3. Language Of Love -- Dan Fogelberg
4. Rosanna -- Toto
5. Separate Ways -- Journey
6. Heat Of The Moment -- Asia
7. Love Is A Battlefield -- Pat Benatar
8. Cum On Feel The Noise -- Quiet Riot
9. Say, Say, Say -- Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney
10. Human Nature -- Michael Jackson
11. Every Breath You Take -- The Police
12. Down Under -- Men At Work
13. Tell Her About It -- Billy Joel
14. You Might Think -- The Cars
15. 99 Luftballoons -- Nena
16. Twist Of Fate -- Olivia Newton-John


Some of my other first tapes were Bonnie Tyler and The Police. :)

[sisabet.livejournal.com]

Rick Springfield - Living In Oz.

[dualbunny.livejournal.com]

Best Benji reference *ever*.

[falzalot.livejournal.com]

OMG! Journey appeared magically in your mailbox! Dude! That's so cool! I want Journey to appear magically in mine!!!! Followed by Styx, and Alan Parsons, and all the stuff that I still have in VINYL but never got around to spending the money on it again to get digital.

heh - I remember when I did driver's training way back when (we're talking WAAAAY) we drove down Palomares canyon, and the guy pointed out the house that Steve Perry used to live in. It was like a total fangirl moment!

[luminosity]

Hell! I know someone who could make Alan Parsons magically appear in your mailbox. *cough* But Journey? OMG NO. NO NO NO NONONONONO

Hiding! Somewhere! In the NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT....

[laurashapiro.livejournal.com]

I love Journey, and I am not ashamed.

[zoerayne]

Not only was I seeing helicopters while you were recounting the story, but I was having high-school flashbacks. *g*

[anoel.livejournal.com]

*laughs* Too funny. Don't ever argue with free CDs and all the crazy vid ideas they inspire.