Know how some people feel when they wake up from a dream before they forget it, or better still I suppose is that 3/4 awake when the dream is still a snowflake melting on your jacket. It's a mental miracle, the dreaming and the remembering, and the losing it too. Did you ever see the movie "Until the end of the World?" (look it up if you are interested or I may get to a synopsis later).
Some people, not me, feel a strong reminisence with scents - they smell apple pie and are whisked back to their grandma's house in 1976.
For me, the unspeakable thrill is the randomness of time selection of songs that pop into my mind. Walking down the street, washing dishes, wishing, wondering, warming. A song will stay for a random length of time. Like a musical ghost. Does this happen for you? I also enjoy how in my head I am able to re-mix it and tune in more to lyrics or bass or the keyboard I never heard the first ten times. It's like how it is when you're stoned.
Today's selection is Thom Yorke's 'Atoms for Peace'. The lyric "so many alive, so many alive" came in first, then the mental color of the ambient keyboard layers. I don't travel with an iPod so the anticipation mounted all day. This song is so fucking good.
Friday, December 05, 2008
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Is this song solo Thom Yorke or Radiohead? I never could get into Radiohead.
I don't think we've ever talked about your remixing of songs in your head. I like it.
it's solo Thom Yorke.
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