Life and Other Things

Ahh... It’s been about a year—maybe a year and a half—since I truly began listening to different versions of songs. I never realized that a version with somewhat similar lyrics could convey such different meanings. Perhaps the video accompanying a version can significantly impact how we understand the song, or maybe my mood during each version changes everything I feel about it. I had no idea there was such a thing as the “right version” of a song.  A few months ago, I was listening to “Those Eyes” by New West, featuring Zeph. As I played it in my car, the person sitting next to me said, “I love this song! But which version is this? I didn’t know there were a few verses by a female artist.” It turned out they immediately fell in love with this rendition, and now the song holds much more meaning for them. This has happened to me with a couple of songs as well. It still surprises me how the right version can communicate so much more to us. Communication is another concept t...

Meet Me at Montauk “Blessed are the forgetful, for they get the better even of their blunders.” “How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. Eternal sunshine of the spotless mind! Each prayer accepted and each wish resigned.” (Just putting these quotes out there. Think on them. I’ll come to it later.) We usually observe the lives of people who are more successful, more intelligent, and more stable than we are. We even try to copy their ways, aspire to their lifestyle, and consider them our benchmarks. Somehow, we never really pay attention to the ones we think of as “average” or “below average.” It’s as if there’s nothing interesting to learn or understand from their lives, or perhaps that they are less human than we are. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind It’s a love story, but not your usual monthly fix of dopamine with cheap emotional ploys that are released nowadays. It offers a very unique take on how love can be, in...