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The Summer School RitualLOCATION: School , Portland, ORYEAR: 1986TAGS: The Smiths, Summer SchoolPUBLISHED: June 3, 2008It wasn't until this very moment that I correlated this story with the song subject. To say I was a good or bad student in highschool would be inacurate, so I truly am perplexed as to why I had to attend summer school. Both my parents were working so perhaps it was to keep me out of trouble, but that's a whole other memory. The day before my first day I recieved a package from my best friend in D.C. which included a normal-bias audio cassette with with something by The Angry Samoans on side A and "Meat Is Murder" by The Smiths on the other. Seeing that I was into punk at the time I was eager to hear the contents of side A, but the quality was unlistenable, I find it hard to believe that they sounded that shitty on purpose, and all I could think was "What kind of name isThe Smiths?" So the next morning I strapped my book bag, which housed my Walkman and speakers which I borrowed/stole from my sister's boom-box, on the back of my bananna-yellow Schwinn 10-speed and pressed play. The neighborhood was filled with the early morning jingle-jangle of Johnny Marr's Rickenbacker as I barreled down a perilously steep hill and down the too narrow, over-traveled road to my scholarly summer. The whole of the trip took all of 4 minutes and 52 seconds which just happends to be the exact track time of The Headmaster Ritual. It became a morning ritual and the soundtrack to my summer.
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