Back in late 1986 or early 1987 when I was a senior in high school, I considered myself a Rush fan. I had Moving Pictures, Grace Under Pressure, 2112, Caress of Steel, and Exit...Stage Left. I was amazed to find out that there was an album that was released between Moving Pictures and Grace Under Pressure.

When I first saw the video for Subdivisions, I bonded to it immediately. That kid in the video was me, nerdy kid playing Tempest in the arcade.

A few years later, after I graduated from college, I was living in an apartment complex called Spring Hill Lake, in Prince George's County, MD. My parents had divorced, and my mom was feuding with her side of the family over my grandfather's will after he had passed in June of 1992, so I became somewhat estranged from them. It was a pretty lonely time for me. And I used to go for long walks around the complex listening to various tapes on my Walkman. One of my favorites was Signals. There was a point in my route where I walked on a bridge that went over the Capital Beltway, and I would stop over one of the loops (inner or outer) and watch the oncoming traffic with Subdivisions playing in my headphones.

I had grown up living in increasing rural areas, but then ended up going to school at the University of Maryland, College Park, living in Spring Hill Lake (the largest apartment complex on the east coast (at the time at least,) and working in Washington D.C. one block away from the White House. And true to Subdivisions, I eventually made my way back to the suburbs. I now live in a quiet neighborhood surrounded by farms in a small town in northern Virginia. It's s nice combination of the three houses I lived in with my parents while growing up, with "lighted streets on quiet nights."