Martin
A monoid in the category of endofunctors
Feel free to talk about anything that makes you feel nostalgic here, whether that be music, videos, games, experiences, or whatever else. Consider this a 100% judgement-free, chilled-out zone.
I might post about more stuff later if I can think of anything, but I’m gonna start this thread off with some of my nostalgia music.
This song has an extremely special place in my heart due to my childhood; whenever I listen to it, all I can think of is my fond memories of playing EyeToy: Groove with my sister and my best friend when I was 7 or 8 and playing the game to this song over and over again; I love that game with all my heart, and it is a memory that I really cherish because ever since then me and my sister have just kinda drifted apart (and the same with that friend to a greater extent) and it just reminds me of one of the last times I think I was a genuinely happy person before kinda spiralling due to the stress of the social situations forced onto me by school and how I just never really fitted in.
When I was about 6 or 7 years old, my dad gave me an MP3 player (one of those old ones w/ three buttons and no display on it) that had around 50 pieces of music (including pop, rock, classical, opera and a number of other things) saved to it. I didn’t know the names of any of the songs that were on there at the time, but the two pieces of music that I vividly remember listening to are this recording of Merry Chrismas Mr. Lawrence (which I refound around three months ago after listening to a load of Ryuichi Sakamoto’s various recordings of the piece) and Faithless - Insomnia; this one in particular really captivated me, and I still am captivated over ten years later. There’s something about the melancholic piano and cello that just pulls me into it and really resonates with me, and it evidently resonated with me as a kid too.
Gonna go even further back with this one. When I was in reception at infant school, they had a cassette player that they brought out into the playground at break and lunch time and a member of staff would be in the corner with a group of children dancing, and this was one of the pieces of music that was on there. I’d always rush over when this started playing and would jump around like a frog on a spring, and even now it is still extremely catchy and fun to listen to.
I might post about more stuff later if I can think of anything, but I’m gonna start this thread off with some of my nostalgia music.