This looks fun. 
Mine’s long, do feel free to ignore. I may post this in my LJ, actually.
Who/What: Late elementary school years
Age: 9-12
Event: I was young and happy. I was beginning to realise that I was different from most of my friends, as they liked flowery flouncy girly singers and dance beats, and while I liked that, I also liked hard rock and 80s hair metal…
Music: Nelson - Love and Affection
Who/What: Junior high
Age: 12/13
Event: This is going to sound weird and trite but it was kind of solidifying my realisation that music meant a lot to me. Further separating me from my friends, who listened to Whigfield and Ace of Base. As they wore flowery blouses, I started parting my hair in the middle and wearing plaid…
Music: Pearl Jam - Jeremy, then later Nirvana - the Incesticide album in particular, then later Green Day - Basket Case which became popular around that time
Who/What: Junior high near the end
Age: 14/15
Event: I’d been getting made fun of for years, and found some of Tori Amos’s lyrics to be intriguing. I wound up singing one of her songs in the school talent show, and miraculously, everyone stopped making fun of me after that. I don’t listen to her anymore and am unfamiliar with her new stuff, but Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink were valuable to me at this time.
Music: Tori Amos - Silent All These Years
Who/What: My first (real) boyfriend
Age: 15
Event: I had just entered highschool and started a band with the first guy I’d ever kissed, Cecil (but not CECIL, of course!) and a few of his friends. We all became friends and joined our groups of friends and were this huge, fun, inseparable group for a while. I still look back on this as perhaps the happiest period of my life. Together, we went to local shows and started getting into punk rock. Then I started dating the guitarist, Robert, who gradually separated me from my friends and mentally and physically abused me. I smartened up at 17. It’s odd that after being hit in the face with a book and locked in a dark room for 2 or 3 hours, what really caused me to dump him instantly was the fact that he dared to call me a bitch. I used to really like Rancid, but after this, I couldn’t really listen to them anymore.
Music: Rancid - Ruby Soho
Who/What: Freedom, and finally dating an awesome guy
Age: 17
Event: I met Morgan online, first of all. We were in a local channel, and he messaged my friend and asked him about me because he had seen my band play and he thought I was cool. He was a lot like me. We both played bass, even, though he was way better and he is probably the best bassist I have ever seen playing in real life. (Really, I’m not kidding, he should be famous. Maybe someday he will be.) He was so damn nice. I was lucky to know him, and in fact I wish I still did. We only broke up because of my pissiness - I was depressed, and he was always happy, and he didn’t understand that sometimes I could be sad for no concrete reason. He’d always pick at me and assume he did something wrong, which would cause a fight… in the end, I wound up being too bitchy to him, which I will regret forever. We still post on the same message board, even though I live across the country. I sent him a PM on the board, a few months ago apologising for being such a bitch back then, but he never answered me. It is truly my loss. I kind of wish we had never dated, because then we might still be friends. He was awesome, and his friends were awesome.
Music: Operation Ivy - Bombshell (seeing him play this on bass was awesome. He can play much more difficult songs, it’s just that this was the first I saw.
Who/What: Fushi
Age: 19
Event: We had talked online for years. We had met in person a few times. We had become best friends. But I somehow always had a boyfriend. Then, eventually, I was single, and eventually he told me that he “fancied” me. Those were his words. “I believe I fancy you.” I wound up agreeing to be with him, although it was long-distance. We hated “techno”, or so we thought. But then he heard, and subsequently sent me, Orbital’s “Halcyon + on + on” and that instantly converted me. A couple of weeks later I didn’t feel ready for a relationship so soon after breaking off my last one, so I told him so and we broke up. He was really hurt. I couldn’t stop listening to the song at this point, despite the empty, hollow feeling it now gave me in my chest.
Music: Orbital - Halcyon + on + on
Who/What: Fushi, stage 2
Age: 19 still.
Event: A few months later, he comes down for New Years, 2000. We leave the party and go to KFC, and park near a pond to eat it in my car. Coming back to the party, we realise… we don’t really want to talk to anyone else. We stand on chairs because the inch-deep layer of beer and champagne on the floor made our feet cold, and we ignore the party despite how raucous it’s getting. Afterwards, we sit in a chair, sharing the chair because Lisa’s brother is asleep on the couch, watching Space Ghost: Coast to Coast.
Music: Grade - A Year in the Past, Forever in the Future (This is a time in my life where everything is falling apart, and at the same time, it’s all coming together…)
Who/What: Fushi, stage 3
Age: 20 - 22
Event: We moved in together. He introduced me to power metal. Lots of powery-metallic fun was had.
Music: Gamma Ray - Heavy Metal Universe, Blind Guardian - Nightfall, Stratovarius - Will The Sun Rise
No, I’m not still with him and my life is generally crap instead, but I don’t have songs for this part of my life yet.
