For Us By Us :: Brad Walsh

For Us By Us

You ever have those moments, or full days, even, of feeling dramatic? Well, dramatic isn’t the right word, because it conjures up images of gay boys and drunk girls getting in each others’ faces and talking shit about each other in basements. I don’t know what word to use instead, but I mean, everything feels pronounced, emotional (not depressing)… I don’t know. I suppose it sounds like PMS, but sincerely, I am not a female.

This is absolutely ridiculous, but for the last two nights I’ve slept with a lamp on and a Diddy song playing on repeat until the morning, and I wake up feeling this way. It’s cold at night and I’m under a blanket in my extraordinarily comfortable bed, and then “Last Night” (the one with Keyshia Cole that I mentioned yesterday) plays on repeat. The beats are simple, the tempo is moderate, and then those Castlevania synths come in and I’m in heaven. I kind of wish it was just her singing because he sounds little odd. But the retro feel of the song really gets to me. It’s along the same lines of what Felix Da Housecat’s “Ready 2 Wear” did for me when I first got it a couple years ago. A standout easy retro song that repeats itself; a perfect womb soundtrack when the lights are low.

Some random pictures:

This is my FUBU-wearing white brother (sixteen now) at homecoming, as scanned and e-mailed to me by my mother:

This is him a year ago, as photographed by me on the day he had to go to court for breaking and entering (he didn’t wear the hat):

This is my mom’s living room (which I miss) before she ripped up the carpet and rearranged the furniture. My art on the walls. She made the table:

This is me and Anna at Rated X when she was hosting a few weeks ago:

This is me in ninth grade in Ohio:

This is me now:

I have since stopped smiling with my teeth. Or maybe at all. EMO!

8 Comments to For Us By Us

by gwen

On October 26, 2006 at 6:56 pm

omg u r so cute in 9th grade, we should meet up and i will call u on teh phone and we will be teh BFFs because omg i luv u brad!

[that yearbook photo really is adorable. cheer up, emo kid.]
by anonymous mom

On October 26, 2006 at 7:39 pm

yup, i got the best lookin’ kids…
living room’s blue now,
rob stopped with the fubu, now it’s sean john
by brad

On October 26, 2006 at 7:52 pm

rob’s wearing his clothes, i’m listening to his music… next you need to start telling everyone to VOTE OR DIE
by Hobblette

On October 27, 2006 at 6:06 am

I still can’t believe how old Brad is/looks….I still vividly remember him chasing me around your house on 200th St. with a blanket over his head talking to me in a really creepy voice until I locked myself in the bathroom, scared to death ;o
by Hobblette

On October 27, 2006 at 6:06 am

err….Robbie, not brad just realized what i typed.
by nicole - yeah that one

On October 27, 2006 at 3:28 pm

robbie looks so handsome and grown up in these pictures, and his girlfirend is cute too.
i remember you in the ninth grade in ohio – your look has changed slightly but you have the same sense of humor, gift for intelligance and charisma you always did.
by anna banana

On October 27, 2006 at 4:11 pm

OMG NINTH GRADE FAG!!!!!!!!
by brad

On October 27, 2006 at 8:12 pm

when i was in 9th grade you were in 3rd grade. and when i was in 3rd grade you were just a baby learning your first words, like “sephora” and “omglol”