I listen to it, and I want to be covered in night, in the beautiful dark air of freedom… I want a special summer that lasts for a second, I want lights that shine bright above me, I want to be a shadow that dances til the morning…
This song makes me remember simpler times, when I was younger, and free, and with cares that belonged to only me. It makes me feel like a steady rock of glowing energy, if that’s even possible.
It makes me remember summer and islands and purple suns. It makes me remember mirrors that don’t lie and people that don’t hurt.
I think someday I had a shot at the night, but then I grew up and it all went black.
As a child, I was kinda obsessed with books and music, maybe a little too much for a white girl. As expected, I enjoyed my fair share of pop and also I shook my booty along with Beyonce (back when she was the queen of the bootylicious deliciousness).
As soon as I got my hands on a new phone, with bigger memory, I started piling music on it as if tomorrow will be the last day on Earth. So when Crash and Burn started this morning, it was a good excuse to relive those old goosebumps and feelings I had when I was an 8th grader. I remember the video, which is my personal favorite by Savage Garden, and I remember trying to explain my grandma what was the meaning behind the video.
Feelings are important, or so I am told. People care about things and about people and sometimes they are just like little impatient kids, waiting for good things to happen.
I know I couldn’t be more vague than that, but believe me, vague is my middle name (kinda; actually it is Mihaela), so bare with me.
Promises come to me in different forms. They sometimes look like happiness and flowers and trust, and sometimes they look just like sadness, tears and rain. Promises can’t keep you warm, but the hope that they’ll become reality might. They can’t feed you or heal your broken heart, but they can shine a different light on things you thought to be irremediably lost.
Promises are both the best and the worst things to happen when everything goes south.
Today’s mood:
Tonight before you fall asleep
I run my thumb across your cheek
Cry ‘cause i’m here to wipe your eyes
I know I made you feel this pain
You gotta breathe, we’ll be okay
Cry ‘cause i’m here to wipe your eyes
Please don’t lose your faith;
Don’t worry ‘cuz I’m here to keep you safe
I promise if you let me see your face
That I won’t let you down, I won’t let you down
You know that one band everyone loves and you’re the only one that doesn’t get it? I found this band for me a few years ago.
30 Seconds To Mars was always on the news, on the blogs and on TV, everyone thought of them as some Messiah, with the genius of Jared Leto leading them into greatness. I listened to it, but it made no impact on me. I’m not sure how many times I tried to see something there, only to be disappointed with losing my time. Though I love Leto as an actor, as a director and as a creative imaginative being, I think nothing of his music. Sometimes it sounds pretentious without reason, and other times it’s just plain.
I think I found my 30 Seconds To Mars today. Shuffling through YouTube I stumbled upon The 1975. At first, I giggled and my brain started singing „74-75„. I hit the play button, and now I’m stuck in a loop that makes me feel good.
It’s a song that celebrates life and love and the great power of the city. I am a city lover, so I found myself in the lyrics. Their poetry is simple and complicated at the same time, oozing of urban smells, making you breathe concrete, pointing you in all the wrong directions… How can I not love this?!
The video for The City is wild, black and white beauty, with grey undertones and smoke and tattoos and love of all kinds.
Don’t call it a fight when you know it’s a war.
With nothing but your t-shirt on.
And go sit on the bed ’cause I know that you want to.
You got pretty eyes, but i know you’re wrong.
And don’t call it a spade if it isn’t a spade.
And go lie on the floor if you want. The first bit of advice that you gave me that I liked was they’re too strong, too strong.
Get in the shower if it all goes wrong.
Yeah you wanna find love then you know where the city is [x4]
Yeah counting cards was the best job he ever had.
Cleaning up.
He got good with his 4′s and his 2′s.
That community service was the best job he ever had.
Cleaning up.
He got sick on the floor and his shoes.
Oh and she said it’s your birthday,
Are you feeling alright?
The next one’s the MD.
You’ll be feeling just fine.
Your brother is just sat there,
You said he felt snide.
You hope that that boy will be alright.
Yeah you wanna find love then you know where the city is [x4]
Yeah well she said it’s your birthday,
Are you feeling alright?
The next one’s the MD.
You’ll be feeling just fine.
Your brother is just sat there,
You said he felt snide.
You hope that that boy will be alright.
Yeah you wanna find love then you know where the city is [x4]
Yesterday’s mood,
Yesterday’s sun,
With ghosts and just one nun,
with words unspoken
And chains unbroken,
Deserted and singled out,
Yesterday’s mood
Has yesterday’s doubt.
Loretta is spinning
The birds she is singing
With words without meaning.
She’s dancing on tables
And burns down the stables
And all of the fables
Are meaningless sounds
Of forrest and doubts
And stories of sad ugly clowns.
Loretta has heart and a beat,
She has soul and a body of meat.
Loretta has fright and desire to go,
She has no idea where to in the snow.
As some of you might know (or not, if you don’t read this non-sense), I am really-really in love with the work of Tom DeLonge.
Better know as the wacky dude from Blink 182 and Angels & Airwaves, he is a real mastermind when it comes to music. Not particularily singing said music, but the whole concept and his whole work in this field is pure genius and raw talent. Of course, I know people who get really annoyed by him and his squeaky voice, but I can’t help but love it and I won’t justify my musical choices.
I must admit that, even though I was a big fan of Blink 182 in my angsty days (what can you do in highschool but listen to Blink 182?), I really love the work of Angels & Airwaves. Don’t get me wrong, I was sad when Blink broke up. I was uber-happy when they got together and recorded Neighborhoods. I really loved their last 2 albums. But I can relate more to AVA. I feel that their songs have a specific poetry, that belongs to AVA-Tom, and that, even though he made efforts to include said poetry into the latest Blink album, it is simply not there.
Wait, this review goes off track. I wasn’t planning talking about AVA and Blink and childhood obsessions of a wannabe poet (that’s me).
AVa does not have many videos out there, so I appreciate the hell out of fans with means and love for the band, who create videos that can relate to their beautiful songs, without being tacky, without ruining the magic.
Here comes SlideshowArt. This is a YouTube channel I subscribed over a year ago. Maybe two? I can’t really remember.
These guys have put together little films along the music of Angels & Airwaves and Blink, but they cover other bands too (Incubus, Nirvana, Jimmy Eat World, to name just a few). I would sit and watch Clever Love and Soul Survivor and All That You Are for hours, without blinking (pun intended).
