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March 25, 2008
Maybe one of my favorite polaroids I’ve ever taken.
Sometimes, if I know I will want to remember someone or something later, I will try and associate a song with that person, place or time. I did it when I went to Wales. I listened to Leonard Cohen nearly the entire boat ride. It seems to work best though when I don’t do it on purpose. Cat Power’s “The Greatest” and Ryan Adams’ “Strawberry Wine” remind me of this summer and prom night. Two particularly sad songs. I’ve always said that The Delgados’ “Coming in From the Cold” is how I feel when I lay my head against the window of an airplane. God this sounds so gay but it’s true. Every time I’m on a plane, I make sure to listen to Simon & Garfunkle’s “America” because I think that’s the best song for traveling ever. I don’t really know why but I think it’s a good song for leaving someplace and I want to make a mix of these songs before I leave since these memories, like olfactory ones, will probably survive for the rest of my life.
Also this summer before I go, I want to arrange a photoshoot with all the people I’m friends with. I saw this picture someone took once where they got a bunch of their friends to go into a forest and each person hid behind a tree and when they took the picture, each person peeked out from behind their respective tree trunk. It sounds kind of silly I guess but I promise it looked neat. I also want to do that thing where you have someone hold a picture frame in front of their face and take a photo of them like that. Whatever, these have been done before but I LIKE THEM.
Today I bid on and won a new sx-70 camera from shopgoodwill.com I love that site more than the monopoly man loves mustaches. I’m totally in denial over this polaroid thing. I know it will last forever! It just has to!
I was previously planning on not bringing the sx-70 to France/Germany but I figure this will probably be it’s last hurrah so why the hell not? I know I will get some fantastic pictures. I understand polaroids so much better than I understand anything else in my life. How dare they try and take that away from me? 
