runnin' down a dream

when I was in high school--I think it was the summer after my sophomore year--I had a bad habit of leaving my music playing. all day. that particular time in my life it was mr. tom petty spinning pretty much nonstop.

my most vivid memories of that summer are of waking up as the sun was just rising, going to the pool for the early AM swim with bethany (who I would later in the day go to the pool with again just to hang out, and then later at night we'd go back for more lap swimming. we'd actually leave from hanging out with our friends to go swim for the third time that day. maybe that's where my deep love for the pool began?), tom petty and his little heartbreakers would be singing all the while in the background.

needless to say I think I made everybody in my household sick of tom petty that summer. literally playing one cd over and over again might have that effect on others, it turns out.

right now peter and I just watched tp&th on pbs' soundstage. man oh man it was like I was sixteen again. I love tom petty, even in his old age. he is a true rockstar.

{now I just need to catch THIS episode of soundstage. and my little soul would be complete.}