let's get lost
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i didn't write this, i found it on my local craigslist. i don't know who wrote it, but i love this person. *Sometimes I Get Lost*...on city streets. On purpose. Because I have this feeling that I can keep reading the numbers on the blocks and can easily find my way back. It's one of those things that centers me and makes me whole. I'll sometimes turn up Elliott Smith and listen intently. Or Leonard Cohen; he makes such good "walking alone" music. I'm an oddball. I'm not even sure if my friends, co-workers, and so on realize exactly how much of an oddball I am. I kind of like it that way, though. I have a decent job, and I love it. But I grew up around the gutter and kind of prefer just having a little bit of it in my veins. It helps me stay creative. The most beautiful sight in a city is that which you see standing in the middle of a road, no traffic going either way, being able to see the man-made majesty of the urban experience for miles straight down. Sure, I can be personable. It's required of me, and it's occasionally something that comes natural. But really, I prefer just getting lost. I've lived in cities larger than Norfolk, and was all about this sort of life. There's got to be someone else out there who understands what I mean. That hasn't bought into this whole fear-of-your-own-shadow mentality designed to keep people off the streets, the mentality that makes it so that the Starbucks on Colley closes at 11 and the bars downtown close at 2. I find cars to be these shells designed to keep you artificially separated from the rest of life. I've been trying my damndest to not be that guy, because it means that I'm giving into the same philosophy that makes it so that people drive five blocks when walking is just as easy, because there are homeless people outside. The philosophy that makes it so that the various city councils of Hampton Roads have kept the bus systems just useless enough to force everyone who can afford it to buy a car, creating that have/have not system that implicitly punishes the poor and keeps them from improving their lives or moving to certain neighborhoods. I'm about to give in. I don't want to. I want to stay lost forever. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~like i said, no idea who wrote it. but yay for them.and the whole time, i was thinking about walking around in a big city with my mp3 player and listening to Elliott Smith's "Let's Get Lost":http://originalgeekers.com/music/From%20a%20Basement%20on%20the%20Hill/02%20Let's%20Get%20Lost.mp3 (right click, save as)i'm finally off work.night.
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