| Canadiana: Now Playing |
[17 Aug 2008|02:07am] |
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[03 Aug 2008|10:48pm] |
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I'm only panicking a little. I swear. It'll be alright.
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| Get your drought fix here |
[22 Jun 2008|07:11pm] |
Carry on my wayward son, there'll be peace when you are done.
Lay your weary head to rest. Dont you cry no more.
The opening notes to this song are something very special to me and I know I'm not alone. Even as a musician, someone who works with sound and emotion and how to put the two together, I never expected one song to be able to hit me so powerfully. The key difference here is that it's not this song alone. This song alone rocks, sure it's fun and its got a great hook but there's something more attached to it now than ever before.
Ten seconds of this song is all it takes for me to flood over with a whole complex blanket of emotions. A blanket that's secure and warm but not safe, not sound and comfortable. It's full of pain and anger and nostalgic hurt. I see black, I see grey, smoke and headlights. I see I see Dean Winchester and I hear John or maybe it's God. The words urging Dean on that it's not over and he still has a cross to bare.
Motel rooms with cheap tacky decor, the smell of the inside of an old car and a truckstop diner. Why? Why go on? Why fight this fight that will cost everything you've ever had, which was never much to begin with. I feel him fighting to keep whole, to be the person he's decided he is. Dean is such a strong character with such a cracked foundation. There's the complexities of such a simple relationship of characters Father, son, brother, friend. No crazy step sisters or girlfriend who doesnt like your mother. It doesnt need it.
In that instant I understand how important Sammy is, I feel a young boy losing his mother. Being lost and left in the dark but being expected to be even stronger because of it. I find his breaking and strenth and the bond. I feel the persevierance and the small joys that come and hold it all together. I feel the desperation he has to be all that his father was but better.
Tears, I instantly think of tears. Of all the hard times that have come across Dean as a character. Losing his father, losing Sam and seeing the deamon that he would become are all frames that flash into vision.
All in an instant. The music is so integral to this show but that's not by accident, coincidence or convinience. It's something so carefully meditated and set that they go together like they were made together as one piece. Sure it's the intros and the promos and all those things but the point is when you take away the visual I still not only see it but one simple thing, One song, brings on an entire story. The lives and people and feelings and history, mythos, hopes and future. Maybe it's an interesting thing about the human mind or maybe its just how fucking awesome Eric Kripkie is at his job.
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| Friends Only |
[11 Jun 2008|12:44am] |
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