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November 4, 2004
The Morning After
I feel like I got dumped last night, and I'm waking up today to a sunny day, trying to start over. Music sounds better when you're depressed, but when the Zombies' "This Will Be Our Year" popped up on my iTunes party shuffle, I couldn't really find an ironic way to appreciate the song. Apple needs to make a "Solitude Shuffle" for times like these. Ah, "The Freed Pig" by Sebadoh just came on, good enough. Now, "(I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone" by the Monkees. There's enough vitriol in that one for the moment.
I will get back to analyzing Japanese culture and making music soon. I need a couple days to get over it though. I talked to my roomate from college a bit ago, and we all need to remember that there are 50 million other people who woke up with the same awful feeling. We're still pissed and reforming into a Unified Cultural Front. I finished reading Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone last night, and I feel like there must be some Progressive solution to all this subcultural alienation.
Allright, E.L.O.'s "Mr. Blue Sky" just came on the stereo. Things are looking up.
Posted by marxy at November 4, 2004 12:17 PM
Comments
Not just 50 million. The entire population of the world, except for those 53 million who voted for Bush. Oh, I forgot Poland.
Posted by: Momus at November 4, 2004 3:58 PM
i would like to join the united cultural front. still nauseous, 3 days after the election.
Posted by: moira at November 6, 2004 1:10 AM