Days Gone By

Stars

It’s happening more frequently now.

I’ll open up Facebook, that hellscape of a website, just to see if there are any updates from people I used to know.

It’s almost never good.

If I’m lucky it’s a few photos of kids. At the start of the school year I get to see how much they’ve aged. This brings a smile to my face as I see their children starting to look more like the parents I knew. The resemblance as they enter young adulthood becomes uncanny.

But more often it’s condolences. Posts on walls of those no longer with us. Names from classes and yearbook years I thought I forgot.

It’s happening more frequently now. And it’s fucking with my head.

August has reminded me that I need to take more photos. The month came and went and I’m flipping through and seeing lots of cats. We did a lot of things, and I was very bad at documenting it. The rose garden sure was cool though. What I’ll probably remember most? It was hot. Every day hot. Too hot. So very very hot.

August 2025

Most played last week. That Deftones album is just dominating me right now. Loving the new Hayley and Taylor Acorn albums too. Notable new entry this week. More on that one soon. 😉

Jason Tate
Jason Tate

The end of August triggers within me a cycle of rebirth. Twenty-something-years of returning from the summer to begin a new school year is, for better and worse, imprinted on my soul.

The new Deftones album is the perfect soundtrack for this year's transformation. Bring on the fall. I'm ready.

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Jason Tate
Jason Tate

There are summer albums and then there are summer albums. Jack's Mannequin's Everything in Transit, Yellowcard's Ocean Avenue. These are classics that demand BBQs, cold beer, and the sunniest of summer drives.

I also put Hellogoodbye's Would it Kill You? in this category. The kind of music that makes you feel summer.

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