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listen. right click apple click do something. listen. you may have heard this one before. revisiting to celebrate the fact that this here song made its way to sxsw this year on a sampler cd… thanks mushpot!
so i’m upside down
feet suspended by the clouds
when did you decide that this was true? my lover asked of me…
i dunno.
sometimes i get really fed up, working in a bar, with what i perceive to be energy wasted by all these talking people around me. go do something, i think. i’m working, earning money, i wouldn’t be here otherwise. go make something, go break something, go do something.
and then tell me the story, or show me the picture, or play me the song.
but some nights i’m more sympathetic.
they are here to connect. anybody coming out into public is looking for it. it’s just that some people are better at finding it.
polite, considerate people who have positive, entertaining stories to tell (or absurdist tricks and jokes) are more successful in their attempts to connect with one another. they are. so they are less desperate (less bitter and dejected, too) because they are fulfilled in that particular category of need (we humans have so many beyond food air water shelter), and can spend more energy doing something else. fulfilling their need to create, maybe.
what’s up with needs/wants anyhow? desire is the root of all pain, my little buddhists. so let’s quit wanting for things (listen, i’m not saying we should stop dreaming… please, visualize the world you want to live in and help create it) and not only accept the moment for what it is, but make the moment what we want it to be.
thank you to the people who make these moments for themselves and then share the products of their creative energy with me. i hear fantastic music, see beautiful things, and eat fabulous meals, all prepared lovingly by people i like, people who make their worlds magical.
keep on making magic, please. scratch my back, and i promise i’ll scratch back.
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