Help, I'm Alive (too)
Hard to be soft...tough to be tender.
It's true. I'm alive too. Hello Mog. I missed you.
I thought I wouldn't have anything new to say about music, but I see no one seems to have been keeping up with Emily. I still think she is the best thing coming out of Canada, and have always been very proud of her efforts.
Funny thing about Emily - she always seems to be reflecting my own life back at me. When her music first came into my life I found I really needed to hear those songs, and they helped me get somewhere I needed to get to.
When she stood on stage at Coachella last year looking radiant and victorious, I was feeling victorious too.
And now...well, if I had had the money these past few months, I would have taken off somewhere by myself too, for similar reasons, but not totally.
I'm scared some days too, don't know where my life is going.
Is this the experience of your typical 34 year old Canadian woman? I suspect not.
But maybe.
Maybe there are enough of us that we could found a new colony - one where we take nothing from anybody, mind you, but rather give back. I should really be careful of my word choice here. Think more like a bee colony, maybe...? Is there room for so many queens?
I think we would learn.
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Well hello stranger. Its goid to hear from you. Your observations on life n the saving quality of music is right on target. Occasionally, when we least expect it but need it the most some transcendant piece of music....lights a path, or lets you know there are lights. You know what I mean. But its good to have you back & I hope this signals an active return.
Heya Kris!!! Good to have your wistful views on the world here on MOG. -- Where do you think we should start our colony.
Hey friends - good to see you too.
Truth be told, I'm pretty fond of my own backyard. The Maritimes are a pretty good place to be. New England could come too. I think we have more in common with each other than we do with the rest of our countries. I'm open to suggestions though.
All joking aside, I do realize it's not the physical place that matters so much as... where our hearts are.
That transcendance Jeff was referring to.
Cheers...
Great to have you back. While reading you telling us that Emily always seems to be reflecting your own life back at you, I found that that resonates with looking at her silhouette in her video next to your silhouette in your current avatar.
It's good to see your face again. Your absence was becoming a cause for concern, I must confess. Not that I suspected anything dire or dramatic, but, you know, people drift away....
I think your utopian idea suits these dystopian times perfectly. I can't grow corn or hunt, but I can write speeches for whoever we elect as leader....
Ah Bill, it's so good to "see" you too. I missed your kind words of wisdom. And don't try to be modest - but of course you will. :)
Things were pretty dramatic, I admit. But I always land on my feet. I wasn't drifting away - more like the boat sunk and resurfacing took awhile.
The recent arrival of a package from a fellow mogger, who also hadn't heard from me in ages and yet sent it off anyway not knowing if it would even reach me...was very touching. A good reminder of the true friendships I had here, despite distance or having even met in person.
Please catch me up on what's been happening in your world!
Spike, I didn't even notice that. We do both have pretty pointy chins, and not exactly button noses. Ever observant. :)
So glad to hear from you again and to learn that you're feeling better. I send you my best vibes.
I'm scared some days too, don't know where my life is going.
I don't know about typical 34-year old canadians, but that attitude seems similar to a 34-year old american I know pretty well. (me, in case you didn't catch the subtlety there).
good to see you back amongst the living here.
hey glad to hear you are still living up north and still around these electronic parts in addition. i think sometimes escaping to south america would do the trick too. especially now in the cold, Emily Haines seems to me like a really genuine person in her interviews
She's genuine, for sure. That comes through in her music, and is why I love her.
Glad to be back, cheers.
Groon, I kid in a way... I know we're all in the same boat...those of us not content to mindlessly float along anyway. I'm just continuously surprised by how she is giving voice to exactly what I'm feeling.
Levek, good to see you too, looking forward to catching up.
You weren't at Coachella last year, were you? Because if you were, I'd be even sadder that I missed seeing you there. I had forgotten that Metric played, and then it hit me ... the evil organizers put them on Sunday thus denying me the oppotunity to see Emily and band live. Sigh.
You've been missed, but I guessed that you were working hard with your band. I wish that was the real reason you were gone. :(
there is room. for queens, jesters, paupers, bards. we can be scared and victorious altogether. once more for the road, it's great to read you again, Kris. make it more often than once a year now. (;
The return of courtly love, Ilay! Let's put some life back into the wasteland... :)
No Dale, I was not at Coachella last year - I had contemplated it as a possibility, but there were other more pressing matters going on, as you've guessed. Boo on missing Metric, how sad for you. :(
Yes, I was working hard with the band, but that's not all. I guess you could say that getting back into playing music made me have some epiphanies about my life and where it was or wasn't going.