I am looking down at a passing train on a Sunday morning from a bridge in Nashville.Trains were once the new imagery of a powerful, new world. A force of progress cutting across countrysides bringing new cultures together and opening a route of escape for those unsatisfied with their lives. Song imagery using trains was representative of that force. Now trains have taken a new roll in our collective consciousness. Somehow they still evoke escape or power but, as the information age whirs up around them, they more often represent imminence or memory and the fading of all temporal things. The sound of change on the backside of the moment. Distance. From the past and from our dreams.
And....Two of my favorite melodies in the world are Wildwood Flower as sung by the Carter Family and In The Still Of The Night by Cole Porter.
And...95% of all the stuff I owned and bought in the 80's is now sitting in a landfill.
And..the way you look at something is the way it becomes. A football game would be very different if the announcers were saying "I bet it feels really good when they tackle each other wearing shiny, soft tights. I bet they get bruised all over. Look how silly he just looked getting mad at that man wearing stripes. I am sad for these young men hurting each other for attention. Is this game almost over?" or when somebody dies we always have the option of saying, "Good for them! They are doing their thing and doing it well."
A friend of mine told my something that stuck with me: "There are as many religions as there are people."
Likewise, every word, every image and every symbol has a slightly different meaning to everyone who encounters it.
"Evil"
"Knievel"
P.S. - Just found out that his name is actually "Evel." Does that help or hurt my point?
"Point"
And...95% of all the stuff I owned and bought in the 80's is now sitting in a landfill.
And..the way you look at something is the way it becomes. A football game would be very different if the announcers were saying "I bet it feels really good when they tackle each other wearing shiny, soft tights. I bet they get bruised all over. Look how silly he just looked getting mad at that man wearing stripes. I am sad for these young men hurting each other for attention. Is this game almost over?" or when somebody dies we always have the option of saying, "Good for them! They are doing their thing and doing it well."
A friend of mine told my something that stuck with me: "There are as many religions as there are people."
Likewise, every word, every image and every symbol has a slightly different meaning to everyone who encounters it.
"Evil"
"Knievel"
P.S. - Just found out that his name is actually "Evel." Does that help or hurt my point?
"Point"
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