Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Freewriting with Music: A Cemetary Row, a Solemn March, and Nothing Happens (Means Nothing)

In an old sweatshirt reading old essays listening to old music,
“Cemetery row is not such a bad place, don’t you want to go" (Cemetery Row- The Minus 5)
Yes! I do, finally a sound that contemplates what I find beautiful,

“Give this booone to my fath-er-er; he’ll rememberrr huntin’ in the hills when I was ten years old. May my looovve reach you all, I lost it in my self and buried it too long." (Dead Man’s Will- Iron & Wine)
Exactly! This is what I will give, total attention, expectation, elation…
Love.
O.k. I’ll stand there while you point that machine this-a-way.

“What a beautiful face I have found in this place that is circling all round the sun" (In the Aeroplane Over the Sea by The Neutral Milk Hotel)
Perfect. Like talking points let’s watch these people spin rhetoric death traps, with our sodas and lawn chairs out in the sun; sitting, lying, breathing, singing.. sighing... dying….

“Someone found the future as a statue in the fountain, an attention in a pool of water wishes were the blue- everything means nothing to me” (Everything Means Nothing to Me- Elliott Smith)

Really? Me neither because in this cold blue water crystallized by the voices, sounds, feelings, pictures, a dictator wakes up from a death-march and realizes that he was a ghost his entire life, Sending signals down his spine and chills to his men.
I’ll lead this march if you have a point, a saying, a meaning, a time!
And let’s recount the days that brought us back to the beginning.

As a cycle once said, everything is a prophet.
The future is analogous with the past but present, present is the story we tell ourselves "does not exist".
It’s the instance of a cycle that always ends,
no amount of machinery can explain that,
no amount of man power can change that,
no amount of love can rearrange that.
Wack!!

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Works Cited

Calexico, Iron & Wine. Dead Man's Will. Rec. 2005. MP3. 2006.

Elliott Smith. Everything Means Nothing to Me. Rec. 2000. MP3. 2000.

Nuetral Milk Hotel. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. Rec. Summer 1997. MP3. Robert Schneid

The Minus 5. Cemetary Row. Rec. Winter 2006. MP3.


2 comments:

Chris said...

Iron and Wine AND Neutral Milk Hotel.
Beautiful.

Lola said...

wow. this blew me away. the idea, the structure, the timing, the eloquence..you take the things we all notice and turn it into this diamond perspective. nice write.