Ozma makes me miss undergrad like crazy.

If there's any album that epitomizes nostalgia for me, it's Rock and Roll Part 3 by Ozma. It defines freshman year and the good days in Shadowfax. What a year. I'm sad that it ended with drama that pretty much strained one of my closer friendships from that year, but it was certainly a memorable year. Or, as we would have said back then, it was a jawsome year. (Side note: there was a lot of debate about whether it was to be spelled jawesome or jawsome. I was always in the jawsome school of thought.)

It all started when I was trying to get through one more section of my PR outline and Kristina pointed me in the direction of some of the old blogs from that year. Once I started reading, I got hooked. Brought back so many memories.

I miss the days when things were so carefree. We seriously watched a movie almost every week. Always frolicking around the Spectrum or Target (haha, oh Irvine). Always so happy. No concerns about passing law school finals or finding a summer job. Those were some good times.

I kind of got hooked reading Chris's old stuff, especially reliving the months before we got together. And how technically our first date was a NOFX concert.

But I don't think anything sums up freshman year as well as Rock and Roll Part 3 does. We saw Ozma at the Glass House in Pasadena December 2003 and it sent us all off. It was the band we were obsessed with. Shootingstars was pretty much everyone's emo song. It was so devastating to all of us when they broke up that summer. I think things that may have rivaled Ozma that year were Eurotrip (we pretty much watched that movie every day during Spring Quarter), Kill Bill (came out that year, whatever) and Franz Ferdinand. Oh and Gavin DeGraw, but he was mostly a Fall Quarter thing and a second floor girls suite thing.

On the upside, I'm meeting with some of those Shadowfaxers this weekend. I'm excited.

So the questions I now leave with are:

1) Whatever happened to Diana? I just ran a search for her on Facebook but didn't feel like sifting through the 500+ results I got at 2:15. I hope she's doing okay.

2) What is in Max Cola and why did it make us go crazy that one night?

3) Whatever happened to Ozma anyway? They broke up Summer 2004, got back together around 2006. They released Pasadena and did some shows and then they fell off the face of the planet. My music tastes have changed since my Ozma days,but I would so see them again. If anything, it'd be to do the geek mosh to the Tetris theme. I miss those guys (and girl).

And for good measures: