Dragging away from the high road
We should find a flock of birds big enough
to pull us up from the long road
Come on. Come with us....
I've been listening to Bear in Heaven's "Lovesick Teenagers" over and over for the past few days, so I think that means it's telling me it wants to find a home here. Don't be put off by the title; I'm not even sure the song is exactly about teenagers, as it is about endurance and transmutation, but it's the music that interests me most--don't ask me why I'm a writer. Starved grandeur. I was going to say it gets me every time, but it's not like that sound comes along every day.
For some reason, Pitchfork TV appears to be misbehaving in the embed department, so a link might just have to suffice.
I've also been meaning to put a link to three pieces of mine--"The White Deer," "Love Story," and "Mothers in the Trees," in the new issue of Sweet. The first is from the new memoir; the second two are from Unbuilt Projects. The three all turn around a mother, or a lost mother, and the third even features its own bear in heaven.
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I think a girl basically convinced me to leave my girlfriend, based on that song alone (fuzzy wuzzy logic: "you like this here song so you really like me, just me" etc). It is kind of timeless, brings back the angst..
On a not so related note: I was doing some research at the central library in LA & Lawnboy was right next to the book I was looking for (don't ask). Am having a good time in it. Rummaging around, tearing up camp, etc.
Lol.. Songs have the amazing power to make us feel things we never dreamed of.
A song that I love to listen to is "I've got a feeling". So many days I wake up not knowing how my day will turn out this song pushes positive thinking..
Say: I've got a feeling that tonight's gonna be a good good night
Hey Russel, I have to listen to the song again with that story in mind. That "come with us" line is pretty alluring, even amidst all the alarm.
I'm glad Lawnboy found its way to you--I love the idea of rummaging around in a book. That's how I like to read myself. I hope keep having a good time in it. P.
Thanks, SY. Here's another sweet, optimistic song, several decades before The Blackeyed Peas:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjEAK4lR-Qs
Ok, so I admit I've listened endlessly to the 3 cuts on Pitchfork since yesterday...stylist or no stylist he does make my heart flutter...
And he knows just what he's doing. That look in his eye.
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