Attention (2008)

Attention is a playlist I started April of 2008. At the time I had a beautiful girlfriend, I was becoming a leader at my church, and I was in a very interesting film class. Now the true meanings of some of these songs may not relate to me in anyway. For example, the song “If I Never See Your Face Again” by Maroon 5 feat. Rihanna, did not apply to me in any way. Me and my girlfriend would change the lyrics to “If I never see your face again I will mind”. Most of these songs when I hear them now bring me back to a time in my life where I enjoyed life at the fullest. The song “Chasing Pavements” by Adele, reminds me mostly of my girlfriend because I listened to that song for the first time when I was with her. We had an event at my church called a Lock in. Its where the kids sleep over at the church (with adult super vision) and they could play video games, hang out, or stay up all night. I remember I was with my girlfriend Kristina and we were watching T.V. in one of the rooms of the church and on the T.V. was some morning show. The T.V. was kind of fuzzy, so you couldn’t see the picture completely. Anyways, Adele was performing on this morning show. I just remember sitting on the couch with my girlfriends legs laying across my knees and hearing this song. Then turning and looking into her beautiful dark brown eyes. And that’s one of the memories I get from this playlist. But the meaning has nothing to do with us; just the song reminds me of her. The song “Disturbia” by Rihanna brings me back to when I was taking a Pierce College class on the Granada campus. The class was cinema 107; we would watch films and analyze them and studied what made them interesting etc. My professor was Professor Costa, one of the best teachers of all time. He was so down to Earth, and explained things in depth to you if you didn’t understand. And he would make sure you would understand exactly what he was talking about. Also he would give us free time, because he had us for 4 hours a day, and during this free time I would listen to my ipod or read my bible. During the same time I was in that class I downloaded on iTunes a new song by Rihanna. But this song was not a single yet so I felt like I was discovering gold when I 1st listened to it. I remember sitting in the seat closest to the door in F7, with the door open, feeling the warm summer breeze. This another time I enjoyed. Now to go to a time that was not so great. This summer, my church moved from North Hollywood to Granada Hills. It was a big transition. We lost a lot of members of our church such as staff, leaders, and students because of distance issues. Now this was a sad time for me because I was saying bye to a lot of good friends that I would not be seeing that often anymore. But I discovered this song on YouTube. John Kappas is a YouTube artist who is slowly rising. Now listening to his music in a sad time helped me cope with a lot of things. But I don’t want to go into too much with that song because as I said that wasn’t a high point in my life. And if you notice the songs after that were mostly comforting songs for me. Later on around early October, I listened to songs like “Reebok Video” by Yelle, this was a high point of my life because I just got my 1st job, and a day after I got my license, and I could listen to this song in my car when driving. And I wouldn’t have to worry about my mom liking the music because I was driving. But when I hear the song I think of ending summer and driving to and from work (because that was the only place I drove to at that time) in my dad’s 95 green Chevy truck. I could hear the hard beat of the song cover the engine’s load growling sound.