First, I have to admit I watch The OC. I think I'm about 15 years out of their demographic and looks nothing like my high school, which actually was in Orange County, but I can't help it. I think I may be one of the only people who gets the title. No one there calls it The OC, it's just Orange County, OC, South County, whatever dude. [Here's where you've got to stick with me] In Southern Cal, freeways all start with "the" -- to get from my house to CSUF I took the 91 to the 57. Notice the the's? Anywhere else in America, freeways just have numbers. I take 540 to get to work everyday and take 540 to 40 to get to hockey games. If I said the 540, people would think I was weird. But I can't image taking 91 to 57 -- they require the's. So, if you ever lived this (and left it), The OC is a hilarious joke. But I digress...
At the end of tonight's episode, there was a song playing called Forever Young. I'm not sure who it is, but the original was by Alphaville. That song once meant so much to me. I had a friend my freshman year named Kathy, who was killed right after she graduated. She was so much of that year for me -- she was such a good friend that she got out of line at her graduation to sit and hold my hand while I cried about someone else I wasn't talking to at the time and thought I never would again (you know who you are -- I'm forever grateful you needed Bullfrog for your graduation trip). I recall her saying one day she needed to stop drinking and having sex. I was 14 and completely shocked -- I didn't really think people in high school did those things (then I moved to The OC...). Anyway, she loved that song and then she died. "Youth like diamonds in the sun and diamonds are forever."