Champagne Supernova (a song from my soundtrack)

hippie's cove sunset
Originally uploaded by kyra leseberg

every year around the beginning of june, i drive across the strom thurmond dam with my windows rolled down & the oasis song Champagne Supernova playing. this tradition started in the summer of 2001. that summer i was fifteen & defined myself by the books i read (the perks of being a wallflower), the music i listened to (i had just discovered tool when Lateralus came out & i also remember hearing the song Hashpipe by weezer on the radio constantly), & the clothes i wore (i thought i was so hip buying official US Mail cardigans with cigarettes burns & vintage pea coats with no buttons from a thrift shop downtown).
one day that summer we were leaving hippie's cove (i was obsessed with finding out why the word monk was painted on a huge rock at the edge of the water there) after the heat lightning in the sky started. driving over the dam, the rain & the song started at the same time. i was wrapped in a blanket & grinning ear to ear. it was the first time i can remember consciously just being happy to be alive - thinking, 'i wouldn't change a single second of any of this'. it was like an epiphany when i read about infinite moments in the perks of being a wallflower later that summer.
it all sounds lame but that moment in my life just sticks out so much more in my mind than most others. so every year, i allow myself to be nostalgic & drive over the dam in honor of that summer.

-& every year, i'm surprised at how much my life has changed since the last drive.




i've never thought of oasis as a great band, never particularly enjoyed much of their music. but this song that summer - it was perfect (who knows if the moment would even mean that much if it were a different song that had played?) & that's why it's on my 'soundtrack'. music is just that way - without it, life would be a mistake.
-i totally stole that line from some famous philosopher.