best friends and stress balls
heroin and alcohol
things to get high on
things to rely on
things you can cry on
in shame
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Saturday, August 30, 2008
The Quote
I've had a few people recently ask me about the title of my blog and the quote underneath it. For those of you who are too lazy to scroll on up and read it, it says, "When the mode of the music changes, the walls of the city shake." Plato said it. For those of you who aren't aware, Plato was a Greek philosppher who chilled out with Socrates and Aristotle. He basically laid out the foundations of Western philosophy.
I first read this quote in a book called Passion is a Fashion. It's a biography of The Clash. For those of you who don't know who The Clash is.....you know what, if you don't know who The Clash is we have bigger issues than a quote by Plato. Go get musically educated and then we'll talk. To everyone else: The Clash is one of my very favoritest bands in the world, not even just for their music, necessarily, but for the intensity and passion they displayed toward life and the issues they stood for. They truly changed things in their own right; changed whole crowds of people, one life at a time. They didn't stop because someone asked them to, they didn't sort of quietly state their opinions or slink around the walls when it came to world issues and they didn't play stupid, irrelevant music. The Clash meant something. They changed the mode of the music and they shook the walls of the city.
Here's where the quote and I become relevant. It's my dream to make a difference in the world. If I could do it through music I think my life would be complete. I want to change lives. I want to leave a lasting effect. I know I'm not gonna be here forever; my life is a fleeting moment, I am like the morning mist, gone before most people will even notice me. But if I can leave something behind, a legacy or even one changed life, then the fact that I won't last doesn't bother me so much. I wanna make the world a better place. I wanna right some wrong. I wanna rattle some people. I wanna change the mode of the music and make the walls of the city shake.
I first read this quote in a book called Passion is a Fashion. It's a biography of The Clash. For those of you who don't know who The Clash is.....you know what, if you don't know who The Clash is we have bigger issues than a quote by Plato. Go get musically educated and then we'll talk. To everyone else: The Clash is one of my very favoritest bands in the world, not even just for their music, necessarily, but for the intensity and passion they displayed toward life and the issues they stood for. They truly changed things in their own right; changed whole crowds of people, one life at a time. They didn't stop because someone asked them to, they didn't sort of quietly state their opinions or slink around the walls when it came to world issues and they didn't play stupid, irrelevant music. The Clash meant something. They changed the mode of the music and they shook the walls of the city.
Here's where the quote and I become relevant. It's my dream to make a difference in the world. If I could do it through music I think my life would be complete. I want to change lives. I want to leave a lasting effect. I know I'm not gonna be here forever; my life is a fleeting moment, I am like the morning mist, gone before most people will even notice me. But if I can leave something behind, a legacy or even one changed life, then the fact that I won't last doesn't bother me so much. I wanna make the world a better place. I wanna right some wrong. I wanna rattle some people. I wanna change the mode of the music and make the walls of the city shake.
Saturday, August 23, 2008
questioning
What happens when the tenses overlap?
Present meets future and I'm a mess
But neither makes me as anxious as the past
It's why they call it the "Past Tense," I guess
What happens when it's all been said before?
Repetition's getting old-just like the words
And the kids who said them
We've grown up together, are growing up together
And we're getting older
by the minute
Monday, August 11, 2008
Neverland
One of my best friends just moved half way across the country yesterday. Another one will move to Utah in less than two weeks. My best friend in the world is currently in Boston on her fourth college visit this summer. I'm entering my senior year of high school and haven't looked at a single school yet. I have no clue what I even want to do with my life and am incredibly intimidated by the thought that I'm going to have to figure it out in a fairly short amount of time.
It's moments like this that I find myself fearing change more than anything. I'm a generally forward moving person, but in this moment I'm clinging to as much of the past as I can. My heart aches at the distance currently sitting between my best friend and I. When I think that this could very well be the distance between us for years (forever?) after this final year of high school, my heart just flat out breaks.
I don't think I'm ready for this. Tip over the hour glass and tell me you're not ready either. Take my hand and play hide and seek with the future. I'll fly us to Neverland--they'll never find us there. I'll be your Wendy if you'll be my Peter; we can hang with the lost boys. We're all a little lost anyway, right?
It's moments like this that I find myself fearing change more than anything. I'm a generally forward moving person, but in this moment I'm clinging to as much of the past as I can. My heart aches at the distance currently sitting between my best friend and I. When I think that this could very well be the distance between us for years (forever?) after this final year of high school, my heart just flat out breaks.
I don't think I'm ready for this. Tip over the hour glass and tell me you're not ready either. Take my hand and play hide and seek with the future. I'll fly us to Neverland--they'll never find us there. I'll be your Wendy if you'll be my Peter; we can hang with the lost boys. We're all a little lost anyway, right?
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