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Be Still My Beating Heart On Old School Friday

July 31st, 2009 by cooper

It’s old school Fri­day, and the theme this week is My First Love.

I’d love to put something sexy hot and per­so­nal here. I want to keep my job more. Though you’d be right to point out there are cer­tainly things pos­ted here, dan­ge­rous mind­less posts, writ­ten long ago while prone on the floor of a college dorm, not repre­sen­ta­tive of where I’m at now, that would surely be for­gi­ven by those who would snoop into archi­ves to inves­ti­gate my vir­tue. Neverthe­less, it’s best I keep my current pos­ting as inno­cent as a baby, for­going the music I think of when I think of my first “real love”, and along with it the sor­did tale that would out of neces­sity have to accom­pany it.

For the sake of res­pec­ta­bi­lity I’ll remi­nisce on my very first love, Dae­mon. The love affair bet­ween us was long, as love affairs go. It began when I was in the later part of my 3rd year, almost 4 years old. I loved him because he had video games, and I wan­ted to play them. From The Legend of Zelda to The Oca­rina of Time, I was a tiny video game addict pla­yer, always snea­king across the sandy grass to Daemon’s house to play Mario, and Zelda. These were the first two video games I pla­yed, and along with the ori­gi­nal Final Fan­tasy and Tetris, the only ones.

Dae­mon moved to main­land Aus­tra­lia when I was around 8. Truth be told, it was a relief to get rid of that little creep. He had trans­for­med over time from a rather plea­sant non threa­te­ning 4 year old into a rather tyran­ni­cal 8 year old, deman­ding change and candy for video game time. For­tu­na­tely, by the time Dae­mon moved I had, with help from my brother, cajo­led my parents into purcha­sing our own stock of the very best, non mind dis­tor­ting, video games around.

Here’s to you Dae­mon, where ever you may be.

The music from the The Legend of Zelda, and others in the Zelda series. Much of it writ­ten by Koji Kondo.

A nice vio­lin pre­sen­ta­tion of the music, Zelda: Oca­rina of Time. This is pretty spectacular.

OSF spon­so­red by Con­ver­sa­tions With Marva and Mrs Gra­pe­vine

The pla­yers:

Elec­tro­nic Village | Kim | Kevin – A Slant Truth | Mar­cus LANGFORD | irie­gal | John | CC Groovy | Krea­tive Talk | Regina | Viv­rant Thing | AJ | Belei­ver 1964 | SJP | Bklyn­Queen 86 | Hey Shae | Mal­colm

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26 Responses to “Be Still My Beating Heart On Old School Friday”

  1. sauerkrautNo Gravatar says:

    Steve Tyler and his band mates come to mind… Love in an Elevator…

    okay, that’s enough… nothing to see here, move along.
    sauerkraut´s last blog ..Cheer­lea­ding coach Tom­mie Hill earns Asshat of the Week Award

  2. DougNo Gravatar says:

    You dirty girl. Actually, Tri­xie from Speed Racer was mine. I think that’s why I’ve always mode­led myself after chim chim.
    Doug´s last blog ..Esopha­gus

  3. jakeNo Gravatar says:

    Hell, I’m going back to read the archi­ves now.

    That song makes me smile as my youth flashes before me. Life was sim­pler then.

    So were video games.
    jake´s last blog ..Tra­des

  4. AngelaNo Gravatar says:

    My first love was Zack Morris from Saved by the Bell. Forreal. I was in first grade and he was a fresh­man on tv. It was love at first sight.
    Angela´s last blog ..Opie!

    • cooperNo Gravatar says:

      That is almost as scary as the ele­va­tor thing above. ;)

      Who wouldn’t love a fresh­man when they are in 3rd grade though.

  5. That’s a cute story. It has me grin­ning from ear to ear.

  6. jacobNo Gravatar says:

    The vio­lin con­certo is nice coo­per, I remem­ber the first or 2nd Zelda, I was 12 or 13 or so around that time. I pla­yed Mario, Mario Cart and Zelda and the music makes me smile.

    You star­ting at 4 gives me a grea­ter unders­tand ing of your breadth and depth of know­ledge. ;)
    jacob´s last blog ..Buick Open

  7. BennetNo Gravatar says:

    So you’ve esti­ma­ted that main­tai­ning an air of decency is more impor­tant than being a force of change for acceptance?

    Damn Damn Damn.…

    It’s okay. I don’t know what my first love was. Too many to keep track of since a few days ago much less years.
    Bennet´s last blog ..Sounds, Memo­ries

  8. kaitNo Gravatar says:

    We only had Zelda, Mario, Tetris, and later Don­key Kong. After that I also lost interest.

    The music is pretty good when you think about it, and like you anything else is best left for other pla­ces, not a blog.
    kait´s last blog ..Vera Goes With Black

  9. piaNo Gravatar says:

    You are a dirty girl :) That’s why we love you; inno­cence of current posts and all.

    My first love would come to my house to play dolls and I would go to his house to play with toy guns – ah kin­der­gar­ten there’s nothing like that

    I had dis­co­ve­red my mis­take before I read your post. Kind of came to me in my sleep
    pia´s last blog ..Mea Culpa and Thank You

  10. GNo Gravatar says:

    The post made me laugh. Only you’d post something like this under a first love theme.

    I loved me some Zelda back in the day. I pla­yed with my mother, because she had me on a limi­ted pre-school video game sche­dule. I know when she sent me to bed she con­ti­nued to play.
    G´s last blog ..Archi­ves Short­code

  11. joe gNo Gravatar says:

    Given your spe­cial rela­tionships with Phelps over the years I see your point.
    If only you’d gone into another field you’d be able to write those “other type” posts.

    A very crea­tive way to pre­sent the theme coo­per. Wasn’t Dae­mon the Omen child?

  12. johnNo Gravatar says:

    The anti­ci­pa­tion I felt when hea­ring that music at age 4 is all coming back to me now.

    Thanks

    I loved the prin­cess Zelda, I was her prince. Might be where all that non­sense begins, video games in which the one get­ting res­cued is always a prin­cess, never a prince.
    john´s last blog ..Street Soc­cer For Social Change: The U.S. Street Soc­cer Home­less Cup

  13. JonathanNo Gravatar says:

    I was late to the whole Zelda thing — the first Zelda game I ever pla­yed was Wind Waker on the Game­cube, and it spoi­led me (although Oca­rina of Time on the SNES was very good too — we bought a user SNES spe­ci­fi­cally to play it) :)
    Jonathan´s last blog ..Char­lotte and Jacob Got Married