Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Memory or Dream?

Have you ever had a memory that you just weren't sure about?  Where the memory seems so separate from you, how can it possibly be *your* memory?  A memory so crystal clear in the visual detail, suggestive of emotions you can no longer grasp, but real as rock?  Where you doubt yourself?  You ask, perhaps that was a dream?  Perhaps this memory doesn't belong to me?  If it was mine, is it wrong for me to *keep* it?  Do you ever feel like a voyeur of your own life? 

Ever have a memory as real as it is elusive?  A memory like a square peg and no matter how many times your mind turns it over again and again and again, it never seems to fit?  A memory that's as noteworthy for how it makes you feel as for how unreal it seems?  Like you're seeing through alien eyes?  Here's mine, called to mind by circumstance and unleashed of it's own will:

Sitting on a plane, left side, window seat (peering out at the concourse, of course.  While the pretty lady explains how buckles work).  Standoffish yellow lights outside.  Large window where folks are warm inside. The Terminal.  Watching.  December--probably? 

Outside I stare.  Important people going places, some hand in hand.  Twinkling lights unfurled for the season or some reason beyond recall.   Where I'm not, hot-glowing tree is like a brand.  Lazy-fat snowflakes fall.  White blots fill the air. 

And I feel.  content.  Happy.  satisfied.  Certain of the future.  Me?  Is this just the way: Snowblots; trees; brands; people; cold; lights; rolled-out; season.  Makes one feel? 

Or was this ever real?




Sunday, March 4, 2012

Catchy Tunes with Poorly Enunciated Lyrics

So the other day as I was driving home from work, I heard this song on the radio.  I'd heard it before and I liked it in the sense that it is the type of song one can get in one's head for a few days. 

But when I tried to listen to the lyrics, I found them darn near incomprehensible.  I listened very closely.  I made out, "better run, better run, faster than my [????]"  I thought the word that belonged in the brackets was "Brother," turns out, it is "Bullet."  (Had to Google it, of course--fortunately, my cell phone was able to tell me the name of the band and song).  Yes, it is that hard to understand.  In fact, the lyrics are kinda messed up.  I guess it is about a kid who finds his dad's revolver (I guess they still make those), and seemingly wants to go on a killing spree.  *sigh* 

But the tune is so upbeat.  :-(  

Anyway, here it is if you're interested:


So, do you guys have any songs you like that are similarly difficult to understand?  I know this sort of mumbling was practically the trademark of "Dead Can Dance." (Or am I thinking of a different group?)
BTW:  I have no idea what the Hell a "pumped up kick" is, but, apparently, all the other kids have them.  *confused*