One Down, One to Go
I guess I take breathe a huge sigh of relief now that I’ve gotten the first of my two major papers out of the way - I just finished up writing my seven page film analysis of the movie The Conversation. Great movie, although if I never see that scene with the flashbacks to the murder again it will be too soon. Now I have to focus all of my concentration (what little there is) on my religious studies paper, since it has to be 15 pages long and my topic is still kinda vague. Hopefully I’ll begin reading up this weekend to decide what would be a feasible jumping off point, and then go from there. Of course that’s in addition to having the first draft of my next short story due for creative writing class the same day, but I don’t think that should pose too much of a problem since I’m actually looking forward to writing that story (the one about the memory).
The song I’m listening to at the moment is Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” which continues to impress me each time I hear it. It’s amazing the way he not only tells a fairly interesting story AND fuses it to such a catchy rhythm, but also has more than a few lines of sheer poetic beauty. I especially like this section:
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
That last line is awesome. It just amazes me the way Billy Joel is able to capture that adolescent feeling that the life you’re living now is all there is - how limited your view of the world can be. Another song I really admire for its lyrics is “Charge” by the band Splendid. The imagery is heavily symbolic so it’s difficult for me to tell what they’re talking about sometimes, but two lines really stand out in my mind for their description of what it’s like to fall in love:
My heart’s enlarged
And I charge.
I’m out.
The song I’m listening to at the moment is Billy Joel’s “Scenes from an Italian Restaurant,” which continues to impress me each time I hear it. It’s amazing the way he not only tells a fairly interesting story AND fuses it to such a catchy rhythm, but also has more than a few lines of sheer poetic beauty. I especially like this section:
Brenda and Eddie were the popular steadies
And the king and the queen of the prom
Riding around with the car top down and the radio on
Nobody looked any finer
Or was more of a hit at the Parkway Diner
We never knew we could want more than that out of life
That last line is awesome. It just amazes me the way Billy Joel is able to capture that adolescent feeling that the life you’re living now is all there is - how limited your view of the world can be. Another song I really admire for its lyrics is “Charge” by the band Splendid. The imagery is heavily symbolic so it’s difficult for me to tell what they’re talking about sometimes, but two lines really stand out in my mind for their description of what it’s like to fall in love:
My heart’s enlarged
And I charge.
I’m out.