'Cause We All Want Change

Hello all,

I've been listening to Never Shout Never's new album Recycled Youth - Vol. One On repeat since it came out a few days ago.

 (Photos circa 2010... I was a silly thing even then)

 I've been listening to Never Shout Never since I was 14... That was 7 years ago! The new album is some of their old songs revisited and re-imagined, and there is something so surreal and nostalgic about it. So many of these songs were and are so important to me, they played all through out my teenage years and still do play, maybe not as much as they did when I was 14 but when one comes on I can't help but smile. Hearing all these songs in a new state makes me realize how much I grew along with the music I listened to. When I was 14 I never in a million years would have listened to these songs in this new state, I liked the happy little ukulele emo pop that it was, I mean I still like that don't get me wrong, but I have a much deeper appreciation for this deeper more "adult" sound that this album has taken on.

I guess this album came out at the perfect time really, my 21st birthday is on the 2nd, just two weeks away now, and it's hitting me how much my life has changed, I am so far away from that 14 year old girl I was, but I am also very much still like her. I never intend to grow up so much that I lose sight of that 14 year old, I know I will always be silly and childlike, but I have grown up since then. This album reminds me of all the changes that have happened since I first heard the songs, and still how little some things have changed. I will still always fan girl a bit when my favorite bands come out with new things, I will still have all the dreams of a 14 year old because we should never grow up so much that we forget to dream like that. 

Do you still listen to any of your teenage favorite bands?

Have a wonderful day!

Lexi  

Eastport's Famous 4th of July House

Hi every one, Happy 4th of July! I think I used this same photo in my post last year on the 4th but oh well it's still cute and theme appropriate. 

So last weekend me and my mom went to a church sale. We picked up a few 4th of July decorations since we don't really have any. As the lady was adding up what we had she said "You know all those 4th of July decorations are from the "famous" Eastport 4th of July house.". Of course I know which house she was talking about, if you have ever been to Eastport for the 4th you know the house. The big house with a porch right on downtown Water street, the house and yard that every year were covered top to bottom with all things red, white and blue and patriotic.
When Eastport lines the streets with flags and that house is decorated, that marks summer. It marks the salt breezes, the ice cream, the long hot nights, the smell of sea roses, the nostalgia and all the childhood memories of summer. It is plain and simple a local icon of all things of festive and summer.
Nearly every year of my life I have gotten to see and enjoy that decked out house, but over the past couple of years that house has become a thing of the past, It's no longer covered in patriotic grandeur. Now once again it is just a house, only iconic to those that remember it.
I am glad that I have one small piece of that icon of my childhood, because it is something that no matter where I am or how old I get will always stick with me and in my memories it will always be The famous Eastport 4th of July house.

I hope you all have a grand 4th of July! It's supposed to rain and storm pretty much all day here, thanks to hurricane Arther, but luckily nothing as bad as they got in other places. Now to find a weather appropriate red, white and blue outfit. 

Have a great day and happy 4th!

Lexi