Tag: memories

They brought back feel good memories

Music and Video Stuff

First was media posts of Helen Reddy passing. I scurried onto YouTube to find a few of her hit songs back in the day, because while I wasn’t a particular follower of her work, her work was a very memorable part of my early teen/post childhood times. And with my way of having memories tied to soundtracks, her music surely brought many flooding back.…

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What’s Up/What’s Going On (4 Non-Blondes)

Music and Video Stuff

I didn’t have any particular attraction to this song when it first came out as a single in what, 1993? I also don’t recall any extraordinary lingering of the song on the charts, on the playlists, radio, etc., after. But I dunno, it seems like there was some minor resurgence of its popularity thru its play in movies or TV series or something (specifically my recollection was in the series Sense 8).…

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Once Again, the late great Rap Reiplinger

From My Perspective

I was googling Honolulu events for the next month in anticipation of visitors. I came across this article called Remembering Rap: A New Book Tells the Story of Hawai‘i Humorist Rap Reiplinger in Honolulu Magazine. I gotta get the book. I’m a forever fan of Rap and an admirer of his work. To this day Lou and can be heard in the house, and Rhonda and I at work, mimicking many of his routines and skits.…

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Sweet Caroline

From My Perspective, Music and Video Stuff

This is another one of those songs from childhood memory that, whenever I listen to it, takes me back to those memories locked deep within the recesses of my mind… to a safe and comforting place. A place where life was so innocent, funloving, carefree. The days that I oftentimes long to go back to… well, the carefree and funloving, not necessarily the age!!!…

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Atan Jesuchristo

From My Perspective, Music and Video Stuff

I was sitting out back in the lanai, having a smoke, and for some reason I went into reminiscing of childhood days. I mean 7-10 year old days. Memories of going to church (mom and dad used to send us to church, walking distance, every Sunday) came into mind. And, of all the church songs and hymms sang, the one that stood out with so many memories, was Atan Jesuchristo.…

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Those aimless, who knows where I’ll end up, days

From My Perspective

I mentioned this several times to some around me about those younger days, cloudy in memory, hazy at best… the drifting days where when I left the home in the morning, who the frick knows where I’d go, who I’d run into, who I’d hang with or get into some shady shit with, what kind of shady shit I’d be getting into, and what time I’d get back home for the night.…

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Landmark Plumeria hotel – gone?

From My Perspective

I forget if it was Guam’s todaysrealty realtors that posted this or something else. But it caught my attention. The Plumeria Hotel in Mongmong/Maite. t’s been there since as far back as I can remember, back into my earliest childhood memories. We also stayed there a few times while on leave in my military days… to get breathing room from the family.…

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Chilites Oh Girl – Taking me back

From My Perspective, Music and Video Stuff

Taking me back to a safe place in my mind. I saw this shared on Facebook, and it stopped me in my tracks to sit and listen. And… not really reminisce per se but rather, let whatever memories attached to this song come flooding back. Preteen days, when life was all fun, carefree, safe. Where my biggest deadline was getting to baseball practice on time, and not leaving my glove next to the pinball machine at Palau Store (Toto) when I went to practice.