On a different blog I have that I don't keep up or really even think about anymore had a blog with a box called The Storymatic. It has a lot of gold cards, and a lot of rust-colored cards. It depends on you, but the idea is you choose one gold and one rust card and the gold card gives you a type of character, and the rust card has a plot, and then you write a short story, or a long one, where you take those ideas from the cards and write a story. It's meant to be used to help you learn to write better, and I have loved it. (By the way, if you tried to write a story for every single combination of cards, it would have six trillion, that's right, six trillion different combination stories.
Now, the same company has given us The Storymatic: Rememory. Rememory gives you three different colored cards. A slate card, it's a blueish gray card with a person you may know, like your mom, or your grandfather. Then there is a brown card that tells you a season or a time period in that person's life, and then an event that happened in that person's life. So, I figured I would test this out in this blog.
Here are the cards I got...
If you can't read the cards in the photo, they are You, Summer, Where the Money Went.
So, here is a very short story using these cards as a reference.
When I was an early teen, my cousin got me into west coast punk rock music. The difference between the west coast and east coast punk rock is at the time, the mid to late 80's and early 90's, east coast punk rock had more hardcore bands that just yelled and played with so much noise that it was hard to hear any lyrics. On the west coast, there was a prominent record company called Lookout! Records. Yes, the ! is part of the title. This was the record label a very young Green Day started out. Any of the Green Day records before their 1994 smash hit album, Dookie, was released by a bigger music label who called them a "Grunge Band", like Nirvana, and took away the punk rock genre from them.
Lookout! has some of my all-time favorite punk rock bands like: The Groovie Ghoulies, The Mr. T Experience, Screeching Weasel, The Donnas and The Hi-Fives. I saw these bands countless times over my teenage years, and even some after my LDS mission. The true punk rock movement that started in England with The Ramones and The Clash, slowly slipped away as Pop-Punk took the USA by storm. There are bands that I really like, like Blink 182 and Sum 41, but I also feel that they kind of sold out, and once a band sells out and gets a lot of money, it gets extremely popular and only a shadow of it's former self. I know there are those that will disagree with me on this, but it's what I saw in Rolling Stone Magazine and MTV. The days of dank dark basements of small clubs where there are only about fifty people tops at a punk show were gone. Again, I like those other bands, but the feeling and rebellion and passion that I felt at those punk shows were gone.
I felt like I had to explain that stuff to get to my short little memory story.
In the summer between my junior and senior year of high school, my family took a little trip to Mesquite, Nevada. It's a little city about twenty-five minutes southwest of St. George, Utah. The hotels we stayed at when I was younger were also casinos, but they had awesome swimming pools, and the particular hotel we stayed at also had a movie theater, a bowling alley and as awesome 1950's decorated diner Called Peggy Sue's Diner, which was always my favorite part of the trip. The hotel was kind of pricy, but at the same time, the bowling and movie theater were free. My parents let me bring my best friend, Nate Mulford, (It's awesome we had the same name and interests.), and my dad gave us both $50 to spend on the trip.
The other thing about Mesquite, Nevada was that it is about an hour and twenty-minute drive to Las Vegas. One morning, my dad woke us up early and asked us if we wanted to go to Las Vegas. We both shot up and got ready quickly. in those days, the late 90s, we didn't have streaming music. It was also very rare to find a music store that had punk rock music. Hot Topic had a very small selection of punk rock CDs, which we did buy my first Mr. T Experience album, but that was it in Utah. In Las Vegas at Ceaser's Palace, there was a huge Virgin Music store, and they had all of the punk rock albums I wanted and didn't have access to unless I ordered the CDs directly from Lookout!, I bought two Groovie Ghoulies albums I wanted really bad, but as a negative, I spent all of my $50 on the two albums and one meal at Peggy Sue's Diner. I was out of my money after that.
I still have those CDs and I love them, but that's where my money went for my summer vacation that summer.
If you thought this was kind of cool, here is the Amazon link and picture of the box....
I hope this was a fun blog. I know personal stories can be boring to other people, but I also think this box and all of the different combinations it can have will help you remember things that aren't really at the front of your mind or may have forgotten. I think it could be something to use as a kind of journal that you could print or create a manuscript with to pass on to your kids and grandkids so they can know what your life was like at different times in your life, or a family member or friend's lives, were like.
I hope that you all haven't forgotten my blog and hope that you are all doing well and will come back and visit my blog from time to time. In the future, I will try some other Rememory, or a new one called The Storymatic: Synapsis, which is supposed to help you write and create stories, plays, novels, or short stories based on the cards you draw, the that is a "story" for another time. Sorry for the terrible pun, I just had to use it.
Peace out!!!
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