{"id":1819,"date":"2012-08-12T09:58:41","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:58:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.westwoodvalley.com\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2012-08-12T09:58:41","modified_gmt":"2012-08-12T13:58:41","slug":"my-musical-evolution-part-219-college-intermission-the-end-of-1984","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wrharrison.com\/musicalevolution\/2012\/08\/12\/my-musical-evolution-part-219-college-intermission-the-end-of-1984\/","title":{"rendered":"My Musical Evolution – Part 219 College Intermission The End Of 1984"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Madonna\"<\/a>Penny and I lasted until the end of the year with the last month being more off than on. Again I felt the stinging numbness of heartbreak and loss. Looking back on it decades later, I wonder if I was really broken up over Penny or just at the idea of breaking up.\u00a0 Were those emotions still left over from The Rise & Fall Of ’84<\/em>?<\/p>\n

I didn’t get The Wall<\/em> back out. Instead I turned to my Heavy Metal music to shout instead of cry and rock out instead of withdraw. I even made a note that said something to the effect of You can always depend on metal.<\/em> I think Conan the Barbarian’s dad told him the same thing but he was talking about swords.<\/p>\n

Even though The Wall <\/em>was off limits I could not help but feel like Pink emerging from the coocoon. I had changed. Not into a skin head neo-nazi type but I swore that steady relationships were not for me. I had back to back failures and I wasn’t ever going to do that again. From this point forward I would be the lover and the friend but never the boyfriend<\/em>.\u00a0 That attitude and the rules of the game led me to the most prolific years of my life. It was amazing.<\/p>\n

Zebra – Bears<\/em>
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