I don't think I was sick more often than the next person when I was in high school, but I do think that I was questionably sick more often than most of my peers. I didn't really enjoy high school and I almost always enjoyed going home more than going to class. Either way, I usually found myself laying around the house for the day, trying to recover and stopping myself from getting too bored.

Hopeless Records used to put out VHS compilations of music videos from punk and hardcore bands. As far as I know, that was one of the only way to see those videos back then. They would occasionally show some of the bigger groups on MTV2 and every now and then you could catch a few on public access, but that was a gamble and I certainly didn't have access to them like I do now with youtube. These tapes were amazing and most people I knew who were into the punk scene owned at least one of them. A sick day meant a day of watching punk videos in bed.

I have very vivid memories of watching Scared of Chaka's video for "All My Friends Are Ghosts" as I laid around the house and tried to recover from whatever brought me home. I remember being unimpressed with the simplicity of the song or the very very low-fi video and I'm sure I skipped past it any number of times. But there's something charming about it, something very unassuming that feels almost radical when held up to current music videos of any genre. Maybe it's just me, but I understand why that's one of the few videos I remember.