Come, the new Jerusalem!
Getting ready to head to bed I decided to just grab some music from iTunes and did my typical "listeners also bought" slog through the iTunes store. Which lead me, somehow, to Carly Simon. Sadly she only has one song that I really dig, the theme to Working Girl. If you're not familiar with it, here's a link to the video for it off of youtube. I suggest watching it and hitting google up for the lyrics to be sure you catch them all. This song sorta give me chills, cliche as that sounds.
A few things strike me about this video, first is how obvious the Twin Towers are in it. Obviously they're going to be in any movie set anywhere even NEAR New York City before they came down. Also, I suspect just like you it's always jarring to see them and I've been wondering what exactly I feel when I do. Seeing them makes me feel the way I did when the magic of childhood first started to fall away. When I first started to grok that one day I'd be too big for toys, that my folks would join my grand parents in Heaven and that some day even summer vacation would be gone. I don't know if it was the combination of the footage from the movie in the video or what. Maybe it's that Working Girl is such a, if memory serves, "you can do anything you want if you work hard enough" movie. I remember how much I loved this movie when I was a kid because it fueled my Fire fighting-spaceship captain fantasy. So now to look back on it and see just how different the world has turned out to be, how much poorer we are as a global community, poisoned by such petty hates. That's right a music video for a freaking Melanie Griffith movie has thrown my philosophical switch. Srsly. WTF.
ANYWAY! This wasn't supposed to turn into a downer thing.
The video reminds me of how insanely AWFUL and AWESOME the 80s were. Look at that hair, those clothes. Reagan was large and in charge, the commies were on the ropes and American sunshine was going to bring warmth to the world. Sigourney Weaver, weird name and all, was the image of evil corporate stregnth, but she'd been made that way by the system she was now helping to mold. Harrison Ford was young and beautiful, was always going to be and exudes that sort of hapless-rogue charm that carries him so well. And Melanie Griffith I didn't REALLY understand yet, I don't think, what it was about her in Cherry 2000 that made me fall in love with her, but to this day I still have a special place in my heart for Edith Johnson.
Also, Carly Simon's mouth is gigantic, I bet people can fall into it. She's also really beautiful, even through the lense of the 80s.
So, if you're not familiar with it I do hope you'll watch the video, it's a catchy song. I'm a sucker for choral arrangements, and I think the one in this song is amazing. Thanks for your time. I also never spell or grammar check.
"We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark'ning dawn"
A few things strike me about this video, first is how obvious the Twin Towers are in it. Obviously they're going to be in any movie set anywhere even NEAR New York City before they came down. Also, I suspect just like you it's always jarring to see them and I've been wondering what exactly I feel when I do. Seeing them makes me feel the way I did when the magic of childhood first started to fall away. When I first started to grok that one day I'd be too big for toys, that my folks would join my grand parents in Heaven and that some day even summer vacation would be gone. I don't know if it was the combination of the footage from the movie in the video or what. Maybe it's that Working Girl is such a, if memory serves, "you can do anything you want if you work hard enough" movie. I remember how much I loved this movie when I was a kid because it fueled my Fire fighting-spaceship captain fantasy. So now to look back on it and see just how different the world has turned out to be, how much poorer we are as a global community, poisoned by such petty hates. That's right a music video for a freaking Melanie Griffith movie has thrown my philosophical switch. Srsly. WTF.
ANYWAY! This wasn't supposed to turn into a downer thing.
The video reminds me of how insanely AWFUL and AWESOME the 80s were. Look at that hair, those clothes. Reagan was large and in charge, the commies were on the ropes and American sunshine was going to bring warmth to the world. Sigourney Weaver, weird name and all, was the image of evil corporate stregnth, but she'd been made that way by the system she was now helping to mold. Harrison Ford was young and beautiful, was always going to be and exudes that sort of hapless-rogue charm that carries him so well. And Melanie Griffith I didn't REALLY understand yet, I don't think, what it was about her in Cherry 2000 that made me fall in love with her, but to this day I still have a special place in my heart for Edith Johnson.
Also, Carly Simon's mouth is gigantic, I bet people can fall into it. She's also really beautiful, even through the lense of the 80s.
So, if you're not familiar with it I do hope you'll watch the video, it's a catchy song. I'm a sucker for choral arrangements, and I think the one in this song is amazing. Thanks for your time. I also never spell or grammar check.
"We the great and small
Stand on a star
And blaze a trail of desire
Through the dark'ning dawn"