Domesticity and The Mohawk.
05/07/08 22:14 Filed in: Good ol'
Days
I find myself dragging my heels. Waxing nostalgic about the good old days, when a having a mohawk was something of a spectacle. Not that I ever had one mind you, I was never that brave, and now, when you don’t have to be brave, I have no hair to do it with. Sometimes I long for rebellion, my days are currently filled with the joys of domesticity and the wonders of fatherhood. Rebellion in my life is limited to the “Mutha Sucka” t-shirt ThingTwo wears occasionally and my studded belt that keep my shorts up. I still have a few friends who are not on the kid wagon yet and I hear about their lives occasionally and I have to say, I’m not all that jealous. I don’t miss much from that time in my life, I mean there are moments that I would like to experience again. Events or happpenings that I would like to recreate, but I don’t want the life I had at 25 again. What I do miss is my music. I have a wide and varied taste in music and a lot of it is, perhaps questionable for the young ears following me around day in and day out.
SugarMomma and I watched P.S. I Love You recently. I picked it out. I cried. I smiled. I laughed. It reminded me of music i had not heard in a long time. Specifically “Fairytale of New York” by the Pogues. I love this song, but then again so does everybody. I however, got to see the Pogues live when I was in High School, at The Concert Hall in Toronto, with my dad. It was f*^%ing awesome. I got to see Shane MacGowan, so drunk he could barely stand, stop in the middle of a song, and demand that pair of meatheads in the middle of the crowd stop fighting because in his words, “You don’t fight at a f*^%ing Pogues show!” He wouldn’t start again until they had been thrown out. So this movie, and this song sent me on a quest. I know I own “If I Should Fall From Grace with God” on cassette, and that cassette lives somewhere in my basement, but this is the new millenium, so where do i go? iTunes of course.( I don’t mind paying for music). So while I’m looking through the catalogue of Pogues music they have on there, they hooked me with the “Others also Bought” Section, and wasn’t it a trip down the lane. The Engllish Beat, The Clash, Billy Bragg.....You might call me a sucker, i prefer the term “enthusiast”. I like what I like, and i like it deeply. I came across some new stuff though, Amos Lee, pretty cool, he sounds different on every track. I especially dig “Street Corner Preacher”. I know I’m 2 years too late but the Ok Go album with the treadmill video song is really good for what it is. I can’t forget the new one by G.Love and Special Sauce, “Superhero Brother”, go G.Love. Now I just have to pre-listen them all and create some ShortThing friendly playlists so I can get them singing along!
I Love Music. I f*^%ing love it. I can’t get enough. I love how a song can conjure up a memory so vividly that you can feel it in your other senses. I would like to think that one day I will muster up the discipline to learn to play again. I used to play, albeit Tuba, in the high school band, but it was still music. I’m sure it’s just like riding a bike, which I can still do.....
BBD.