Gone

Jack Kerouac had an excitement for life. This excitement should not be confused with happiness, for he and those others of the Beat Generation and all others such associations before and after were certainly not happy people. Happiness is not something we humans have much experience with. Happiness implies a degree of contentment. The reason that poets describe happiness as simple quiet moments, such as a warm hearth or a snowfall or a summer’s breeze has less to do with perfection of simple moments than with the fact that on this earth happiness can only exist for minutes at a time and then only in the stillness. Excitement looks towards the future, thus it is not a kind of happiness as it would at first seem, but rather a kind of sadness. Excitement and despair are two types of sadness, the difference being the presence or absence of hope.

If You Listen to Any of It Listen to All of It

So I said “More to come..” and then my computer f---in’ snuffed it. I’ll have more and substantive posts soon to make up for it soon, especially on the subject of the last episode of Big Love which was, may I say, amazing. Big Love has been solid as the delightful after-dinner mint of HBO dramas, but with this last episode it has thrown down the gauntlet and called out for its place as equal among The Sopranos, Deadwood, and The Wire as superior dramas like only HBO can provide. I will provide full commentary soon but now I must sleep as tomorrow I shall participate in the age-old ritual of “Helping a Friend Move”. By way of conciliation, I add this: a playlist which has served me well in many situations. Trust me, it works. May the Force be with You:

Aware:

Bohemian Like You, The Dandy Warhols

Yellow, Coldplay

My Favourite Game, The Cardigans

Surrender, Cheap Trick

I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles), The Proclaimers

Where is my Mind?, The Pixies

Brain Damage, Pink Floyd

Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd

Soul Meets Body, Death Cab for Cutie

Welcome to the Black Parade, My Chemical Romance

Starlight, Muse

You Only Love Once, The Strokes

Here it Goes Again, O.K. Go

Evidently Chickentown, John Cooper Clarke

Dreaming of You, The Coral

I Predict a Riot, The Kaiser Chiefs

Thou Shalt Always Kill, Dan Le Sac Vs. Scroobius Pip

Whoo! Alright – Yeah…Uh Huh, The Rapture

Dashboard, Modest Mouse

Wraith Pinned to the Mist and Other Games, Of Montreal

Tarantuls, The Smashing Pumpkins

The World I Know, Collective Soul

You Don’t Know How it Feels, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers

Teenagers, My Chemical Romance