Maybe it was the pending solstice, which seems to have hit at 6am this morning. I don’t know, but something flipped today for the better.
Yesterday was a bad day for my insides. How do I know?
I felt compelled to listen to Born To Run (both album and song) repeatedly. For some reason, it’s a guaranteed tear-jerker for me. Ask Rocs, she’ll tell you: there’s times I’ve bawled. Oh yes. Yesterday’s listening was shear masochism. Tramps like us… (sniff)
Then it switched to the music of my youth. America. (The song, not the band.) Which has just a darn tootin’ few too many similarities to the aforementioned Springsteen number. I’m getting concerned.
So I’m trying to run away from something. But then I woke up with Love Bites on the brain. At 4am. It’s a breakthrough!
The days are again getting longer. Springtime is in the air. I can hear the birds. Can’t you?
Hey, Grant. Nice to see your blog.
“America” (the song, not the band) gets me every time too. I wrote about it for Paste a while back: http://www.pastemagazine.com/action/article/2570/department/music/listening_to_my_life_paul_simon
Hi Andy — Congratulations on being the first comment on my new blog. I’m still trying to figure out the tone/content that I’m after before spreading the good news of my newfound place in journalistic history. But you found me!
Btw, I was thinking of “Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes together…” as opposed to “American Tune.” (Also a great song. I was thinking recently of the absolute necessity of the post S&G stuff to Paul’s reputation. When I listen back, there was more throwaway/juvenilia on the early records than I cared to recall. “The Big Bright Green Pleasure Machine”?
Anyway, Paul Simon at 3am / Def Leppard at 4am. Parallel lives!!! Check back sometime, hopefully I’ll get this thing off the ground for 2008.
hooray! Grant has a blog!
Hey Michael… thanks for stopping by… we’ll see where this goes…!
Reading your blog reminded me of a time in my life when I would play “born to run” over and over and over like you the album and the song and I would even at times when it was dark outside turn off all of the lights and listen to it! I am not sure these days if I could listen to it but would most likely have to turn the lights out and most likely have a good cry and think of the relationship that i really destroyed not on purpose so saying all of that to say that I can realate to what you said on your blog. welcome to blogger land
Hey Liz — thanks for the comment. Driving around 270 is another good way to enjoy Born To Run, followed by the Talking Heads’ more appropriate “Road To Nowhere.”