I broke out my ipod nano for the first time in months. I had retired it to prevent any random and embarassing street emoting. Before listening to it, I carefully made sure that all offending songs from someone who doesn't belong on my playlist were fully deleted. Never to be listened to again. Freedom and complicated release.
A sound that once drew me in, sourced my empathy, carried me contentedly across oceans, warmed me in the chill, brought me back home, and comforted me, revealed itself to be a pied piper of distraction that belied what lay underneath.
I remember quietly harmonizing to a song in the bitter cold in the middle of a desert, the voices matching and complementing in a tiny snippet and feeling like an erotic dance done quietly and personally and building enough warmth to heat the village.
Thank goodness for delete.
About Me
- Shawna
- No longer late twenties (dirty thirties have arrived)Canadian in Israel loving the diversity of the middle east and determined to spite it all and make that small differance while hoping and working feverishly for change and peace all at once.
4 comments:
So you're deleting all of the Kanye West songs?
Kanye West stays on my nano for now. He can still redeem himself. dumbass move though on the VMA's. Did you watch it? I saw it on youtube.
I deleted some other stuff that i never want to listen to again. Stuff that provokes too much emotion. I can't say that kanye and I were ever chums. We don't have any history.
Yes,get rid of the stuff that brings back the bad memories. Why reopen old wounds?
I actually deleted music which carried good memories, just because it would have been too painful to hear them. There's more of a story, maybe to be shared another time.
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