aimless conversations: like an intermission where the band keeps playing

Who is Your Penny?

faerieclaire:
"Life is sometimes in little pictures. You kind of flash back to those moments, and in all those moments, you think about the people you were with, the music you were listening to, and that feeling comes back. Penny represents the feeling, the song, the person that is always with you. 'It's always Penny and me tonight.' Whatever you're doing, you're carrying around this package, which is who you are and the things you've done." - taylor

the more i read about this song, i more i just love love love it to pieces. reading this quote finally kicked me into getting this post made. who, or what, is your penny?

HEYsara:
saturday nites riding around with my bestfriend's listening to our favorite bands. copperpot (www.copperpotmusic.com), dashboard confessional, coheed and cambria.

i cant included hanson in this because my friends dont like hanson

hitzjazzcat:
The summer of '97, my best friend and I would stay up really late looking up pics of Taylor on the internet and listening to MON...we thought we were so cool because nobody else had the internet... Hahahahahaha... seventh graders are funny... ever since then we refer to it as "The Hanson Summer"

HEYsara:
thats really cute. that summer i was gonna be in 6th grade.

wow, brings back memories

unikorn:
Hanson's my penny

RhythmicVenus:
I'm not really sure. The only thing that has been there for me at all times is music. But my Penny is not music in general. I think it would be Hanson's music. It sounds cliche and I probably won't agree with what I'm writing later on, but Hanson and there music is my penny right now... It may not be in 3 weeks, months or years, but it is right now... I've never had anything so stable in my life that something was always there for me, but for the past 7 years Hanson's Music has been there, its been the one constant in the past 7 years of my life.

ejohnson:
my ex-boyfriend is my penny

freshspringroll:
hmm... great question

i think my penny is a few different memories, not just one... but i'll say april 13 2000... i can always go back to that day and just smile :) [partly to do with hanson, partly to do with meeting my best friend for the first time]

i like cheryl's answer too. hanson's music in itself is the most constant 'positive' snapshot in my memory..

ilovenerds:
my penny is queen with windows rolled down cus my best friends car over heats and going to the air port wishing we could fly away and get out of our town... funny now she's talking about never leaving this place and she never drives and more and all i wish it was like that cus you can't have a care in the world when singing to fat bottomed girls or bicycle race

Sunflowers18:
Penny for me would be my Best Friend Jessie. Everyone of the memories that I have- the snap shots of my life- she's always been there somehow...

richieprep:
Gosh, well my Penny is actually a guy I met in England twenty years ago. He played bass guitar in a band and Spanish guitar solo, and knew such a lot about classical music, jazz and pop music it was amazing. We went to a lot of concerts together, and had very stimulating discussions. Our paths just crossed for a while, we went our separate ways and lost sight of each other. Sad really, but I still have fond memories I can cherish.

uzma:
i dont know if this is a "penny" and me thing, but Days In Avalon by Richard Marx, that album brings memories back in 2000, late december, remember listening to it in the dark, with a lava lamp on, the red glow and having the nicest converstion with my best friend. those were the days, staying up late with someone you love, no parents, no annoying people around you, but someone who you want to spend most of your time with. that album brings back all those memories. its kinda haunting to listen to it again now though....

fangirl:
The whole vibe of the song, the idea that it's only Penny and you tonight, starry skies, pretending to fly, reminds me so much of what my life was just before I left Australia. I had just survived high school, thanks to Penny (my friend and I were going crazy in our music class, it left me in tears to think how much I hated music because of that class, but 'UA' came out, and it lent us hope that there was hope for our love of music yet), and was free, free, free! My friends and I used to cruise into the city, eat ice cream and drink coffee on all of the hippest streets in town, then we'd take the car down to the beach, dance along the shore for awhile, then make sure we caught all the red lights so we could perve at all the boys and girls and their cars that pulled up beside us. We would go retro clothes shopping, film short films, eat sushi, drink pretty alcoholic drinks, watch fireworks and Quintin Tarintino movies, analyse music and our love for those who created it, and daydream about the day that we would pack up and runaway on a roadtrip to chase a rockstar or three.

Being here, in Sweden, so far away from all of that, is hard, but I still have Penny... the music.

SomethingGrey:
I'd have to say Kay..
We met at school when we were 7, so about 9 years ago now.. we discovered Hanson together, and we used to just have so much fun.. most of it's SO embarrassing now(singing our times table to Mmmbop, leaving a sandwhich to go mouldy for 4 months then giving it to our form tutor in year 6 etc...) but hey.. good times aswell...cornywall - surfing, reclining, eating cheerios and milkshake whilst drinking coke and custard:S

we got expelled together, so I just went to some random school around Notts and she decided to go to boarding school, so for 2 years it's been like that and we don't talk much anymore. We only ever talk about Hanson or if she's heard something frmo one of my boyfriend's mates about me and shes mad(my boyfriend used to go to her boarding school)and i never really see her. Oh well.

All good things have got to end right? It'd be nice to think there really was a 'Penny' somewhere though..

PinkMoonlight88:
My penny.... hmm.. I've thought about this before, and it's hard to narrow it down to just one or a few things.
My penny would be music. It's my life, it's there in everything I do. I sing every single day... and if my voice is hoarse I go crazy because I can't sing.. but I can still hum. lol I always have cd's playing or the radio on... and I love to play my piano. I love to write music and just express myself that way. I play on my imaginary guitar (because I don't have one yet) and just dance around. haha I've loved music since before I could even talk, and it's just what I love to do.

Hanson would be my 2nd choice because they've helped me with my music and they share that passion. Their love for music is just undeniable and it's so real. Which is how I feel... and it's like we connect through it you know? They've inspired me to do so much, and to express myself and to grow with my music. They are my true music heroes, and have been for 8 years!!

CaptainAmerica:
Abraham Lincoln.

CrzyBeautiful:
I think everyone has a lot of Penny's

For me- it would be my childhood best friend Alicia... grew up in diapers together, I moved away in 3rd grade... but we stay in touch- and we used to see each other a bunch every summer... up until about 2 years ago. We see each other a little bit, still. But I haven't been to see her for a while- shes been really busy this year.

My boyfriend Tom- he's always with me even when he's not. You know? I love him so much- everything makes me think of him.

My cousins Deanna & Stephanie... our Hanson summers.... man oh man...

Basically all of my time in Mass at my Aunt Lisa's house w/ all of my Dad's family. I remember those moments like pictures- and videos. Those were the good old days. We still have them, but now with my Nana just passed this Decemeber, it'll never be the same. She was a healthy old lady until last year. She had a tough life- but never let any of us know it. She was amazing & she is also my Penny.

There are so many things that you think of & that will always be with you...

it's all so amazing.

oh and of course- my kitty- cause her name is Pennylol Pets as well, they are family!My doggy & my kitty hehe

toona:
I loved that Taylor described Penny and me that way. I feel like it's the first time in my life Hanson has adequately described one of their songs.. O_o. That was the initial reason I loved that song because it reminds me of all of those summer moments that I have and remember. It reminds me of my friend Cat. So I guess... Cat is my Penny I honestly think that song was written for us. Summer comes 'round and we are the ultimate road trip bums.

hillary:
My friends from high school. I <3 them.

I have the best memory of having like 10 of us packed into my tiny Pontiac Sunfire on the way home from school with the windows down singing "Just Another Day in Paradise" by Phil Vasser and "It's A Great Day to Be Alive" by Travis Tritt.

faerieclaire:
my penny would be the obvious: hanson's music. each song and album has it's own memory to match. middle of nowhere makes me think of that first summer, the days i spent in bed sick, listening to it on repeat a good ten times through, while everyone else was outside laughing and swimming and reveling in the sun. this time around makes me think of the day i got it and how i had the house to myself and listened to it, again on repeat, blaring through the surround-sound stereo until someone came home. that and all the darkness that accompanied that album. i don't have enough distance from underneath to pinpoint anything just yet. hanson aside, i think my other penny would be my friend jonathan's car. a late 90's gold toyota camery. every time i get in it, i morph back into the girl i was my senior year of high school and fall in love all over again with her. there's just something completely comforting about being in that passenger seat, i can remember all the good moments when i'm sitting there.