Re-Run, but you'll love it

If you subscribed to my old blogs on Myspace, this will be a rerun for you, but I think given the changes in my life since the post below debuted in February, it was oddly prescient of me.

Also, one of my favorite formats for my blogs are my "Five Things" series. (Five is a number that's easy enough to achieve but not so easy that you don't have to really analyze the topic.)

Everything from here on was originally posted on 2/28/08.

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Five Things: Quotes from my playlist

I've just been rocking out a lot lately, so I thought I'd share some. Here below are my favorite lines from the first five songs in my playlist.

Rest My Chemistry by Interpol
"And I've made stairways/ such scenes for things to regret/ oh, those days in the sun/ they bring a tear to my eye/"

While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles
"With every mistake we must surely be learning/ still my guitar gently weeps/"

Martyr for My Love for You by The White Stripes
"And I bet we could build a home/ but I know the right things for me to do is to leave you alone/"

Tear You Apart by She Wants Revenge
"It's only a crush, it'll go away/ it's just like the others, it'll go away/ or maybe this is danger and he just don't know/ you pray it all away but it continues to grow/"

I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles
"Well she/ looked at me/ and I could see/ that before too long/ I'd fall in love with her/"

While often times my views on the viability of love and it's further institutions can easily be construed as "cynical" or "anti-", I think the songs above illustrate that even when we tell ourselves we are stepping back and resolving our own demons, we cannot help but encounter unknown possibilities. Maybe there is truth to the old maxim "it'll come along as soon as you stop looking for it". Or perhaps it's just obsession. Certainly we all know people who are addicted to one behaviour or another. I'd hate to think of someone as "my new drug", but in hind-sight, I think we can all easily call to mind at least one person from our pasts who would fit that description. Sometimes a fling is just a fling, but sometimes a fling is a fucking harsh life lesson. In fact, I will venture the following hypothestis; it is easier to stand tall and firm in the snarling face of adversity than in the comforting warmth of awful embrace.

When it's all said and done, I wonder who will think of me as their "Best Mistake".