Today, at the food store, I bought a package of matches. I rarely use matches... but seeing the little boxes got me nostalgic, and so I bought them.
Later, I was hanging out with my brother and I went to light my cigarette. "Look! Michael Jackson!", I said bopping the lit match up and down. (Small chuckle from my brother) "Richard Pryor!" (smaller chuckle) Realizing his age (20) I then said "Great White!" and got, along with a laugh, a "That's so wrong!". I then said, "ok, it's not accurate, I'd have to light the whole box up." and chuckled myself.
Feeling a bit odd, I then (sort of) apologized and expressed my true feelings and fear about the whole incident... not wanting him (or the Gods, fates, or Scooby Doo) to misinterpret me (or, in the case of Scooby and friends, think that they had to make a point with me in some twisted cosmic way).
Some things shouldn't be joked about... this is true... so why do we? I don't know... maybe to take the edge off... maybe it's just grasping at straws for a laugh... or just maybe a little bit of both.
To stop and think about it for a moment... to put yourself in that club, that night... to feel the fun... then the confusion... then the push... then the heat...
to look behind you... to see the bright blaze... to hear the screams... to watch people incinerate... to feel yourself incinerate...
crackling
like being in a box of lit matches
then quiet
So, you force yourself to joke, rather than scream.
Saturday, March 15, 2003
Once upon a time...
Decide yourself if radios gonna stay.
Reason: it could polish up the grey.
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all
Raving station, decide yourself
Keep me out of country in the word
Deal the porch is leading us absurd.
Push that, push that, push that to the hull
That this isn't nothing at all.
Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe, radio.
Beside defying media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that before all
That this isn't fortunate at all
Raving station, decide yourself
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe, radio.
Decide yourself, calling all of the medias too fast
Keep me out of country in the word
Disappoint is into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
(Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.)
some albums hold so much.
I was little once. Just a little lost kid. full of rage... a seed... yes, that's what I once was.. a seed.
I look at the tree, and its roots, and there's music... song after song... residue... scars... patterns in the bark
When they cut me open there'll be rings where Michael Stipe and Bono cut me open in 1984.
Stars in my night sky... Some shine so much brighter than others... there's Freddie, and David, and Peter, and Vosco...
Sometimes I get the whole "star" thing. I know what the word means... why it's the word they use for such people.
Theres a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over its over me) (Its gonna fall)
There's the progress we have found (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)
isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park)
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
Don't fall on me
Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
("Fall On Me" - R.E.M.)
Reason: it could polish up the grey.
Put that, put that, put that up your wall
That this isn't country at all
Raving station, decide yourself
Keep me out of country in the word
Deal the porch is leading us absurd.
Push that, push that, push that to the hull
That this isn't nothing at all.
Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe, radio.
Beside defying media too fast
Instead of pushing palaces to fall
Put that, put that, put that before all
That this isn't fortunate at all
Raving station, decide yourself
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe, radio.
Decide yourself, calling all of the medias too fast
Keep me out of country in the word
Disappoint is into us absurd
Straight off the boat, where to go?
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
Calling on in transit, calling on in transit
Radio Free Europe
Radio Free Europe
(Radio Free Europe - R.E.M.)
some albums hold so much.
I was little once. Just a little lost kid. full of rage... a seed... yes, that's what I once was.. a seed.
I look at the tree, and its roots, and there's music... song after song... residue... scars... patterns in the bark
When they cut me open there'll be rings where Michael Stipe and Bono cut me open in 1984.
Stars in my night sky... Some shine so much brighter than others... there's Freddie, and David, and Peter, and Vosco...
Sometimes I get the whole "star" thing. I know what the word means... why it's the word they use for such people.
Theres a problem, feathers iron
Bargain buildings, weights and pulleys
Feathers hit the ground before the weight can leave the air
Buy the sky and sell the sky and tell the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over its over me) (Its gonna fall)
There's the progress we have found (when the rain)
A way to talk around the problem (when the children reign)
Building towered foresight (keep your conscience in the dark)
isn't anything at all (melt the statues in the park)
Buy the sky and sell the sky and bleed the sky and tell the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
Don't fall on me
Well I could keep it above
But then it wouldn't be sky anymore
So if I send it to you you've got to promise to keep it whole
Buy the sky and sell the sky and lift your arms up to the sky
And ask the sky and ask the sky
Don't fall on me (What is it up in the air for) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (If it's there for long) (It's gonna fall)
Fall on me (It's over it's over me) (It's gonna fall)
("Fall On Me" - R.E.M.)
Saturday, March 1, 2003
WARNING
Music, in my opinion, is one of the most powerful forces in the universe. Music does indeed leave scars and scabs.
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