My life is shaped by music in more ways than is probably healthy, so I'm going to let the music frame my current state as a person. The backdrop is Vivaldi's Four Seasons combined with Howard Shore's Twilight and Shadow, from The Lord of the Rings. This puts me in a subdued yet hopeful state. In comes Third Eye Blind with Can I Graduate? "Can I look in faces that I meet? Can I get my punk ass off the street that I've been living on for so long? Can I graduate? To the bastard talking down to me, your whipping boy calamity, cross your fingers I'm going to knock it all down. Can I graduate?" The answer comes from the same band and I realize that the Third Eye really is Blind. And this is because it belongs to another. And I wonder to myself, who do I need to finally break free of this spell and see what I can't see alone?
Enter Stars with Reunion and I'm taken to a place I know too well. The beautiful friend who was once more, but broke your heart. Do I try for the familiar light or am I looking too far? One thing's clear, I can't do this alone. Is it love I'm after? To help frame this question, I turn to my boy, Dane Cook, and his analysis of love. "When you're not in love, everybody you know falls in love...it's like there's a party going on and everyone was invited except for you, and you just happen to be walking by this house in the rain. But then once you're in love, it's like being in the party going, 'where's my jacket? I wanna get out of here, where's my jacket? I've been at this party for six years and I want to see other parties!'" Yeah, I did that party for 8 years and I don't think I need that again. But I'm not going to lie, I'm craving more in my life. To use Third Eye Blind again, "I've never been so alone. And I've never been so alive."
This is the view on a motorcycle drive-by and I'll leave you with this.
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