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The last few days I have heard a few songs randomly that in my mind have connections to other events. This evening as a bunch of us were in the Informatics basement dancing, singing and working to the music from an iPod.

An Oasis song came on that I recognized some of the lyrics from but hadn't heard the song before. Then I remembered a drunk friend singing these two lines over and over again "Don't look back in anger, I heard you say". At first I was going to say hey do you remember when... to my friends but I realized that it had happened at my former boss's house back in Tampa. It was a funny evening and we ended up having to prevent this guy from driving home and keep him from falling in the pool. We took him in to the living room and had him lay down on the couch so he would go to sleep and stop singing the same two lines over and over again.

During spring break at the cabin one of the girls there was talking about her connection to the Talking Heads song "Everybody wants to rule the world" Every time I hear that now I think about how passionate she was in her description of what that song meant to her.

"No Rain" by Blind Mellon is one of my songs. I remember hearing it on the radio of the car I was learning to drive in Driver's Ed. Since then randomly hearing it has always brightened my day and has often been a precursor of good things happening that day.

Every time I hear Justin Timberlake's song "Sexy Back" I think about my friend Basey. We joke about that being his theme song. If you know him you will understand it.

There are other songs that bring back sad memories, some that inspire me and others that I heard for the first time in an interesting place or at a poignant moment. I am sure other people have these songs too.