HAHA, okay so my "like" today is going to actually be a somewhat embarrassing personal habit I seem to have formed this year that I've caught myself doing on several occasions, but it's so silly I feel like I have to share!
Walking is the transportation method of choice in this city. (It's less costly than driving and the delays aren't usually so bad.) Listening to music is, of course, my go-to way of finding enjoyment in my many daily walks. But not at night; don't listen to ipods at night when you're alone on the street. It's just not smart!
Anyway, I've found that I do this especially during the middle of the day when I'm making my way down the sidewalk back to the dance studio for my second wave of classes. So I've got my headphones in, my music on, and I can't help but get the feeling that I could be in a movie. I mean, it's New York City, right? There are film crews around every corner all the time!
But here's what I mean...let me give an example of the first time this happened.
I was heading out of my building to back to music class one afternoon. In the elevator, I turned on "Coming Up," one of my favorite tracks off of Brendan James' new album. (SO GOOD!) Somehow, the music and my exit was timed absolutely perfectly so that my right foot stepped out of the revolving door onto the hard cement of the 13th street JUST as the big downbeat of the first chorus kicked in with the guitars and drums and whatever else it's got going on. Also at that same moment, my eyes left the ground and fixated on the world in front of me, exuding some sort of really weird, REALLY sudden energy shift. If you listen to this song (which I highly recommend you do, both for personal enjoyment as well as to get the full effect of this story), you may agree with me with I say that it's the kind of song that would be played at the end of a film as the character is "coming up" out of the hardships that he or she has endured for the past 2+ hours. It's a song of hope, one that would be a great lead in to a fade out and some end credits.
I speak the truth when I say that until the end of that song, I felt as though I could very well be that character concluding that unnamed film.
It was so random and so weird and so ridiculous, and the fact that I've found myself thinking this way on more than one occasion is cause to make me laugh at myself! (But I'll be the first to admit that it's kind of fun!! :))
Today, laughable trains of thought make me happy :)
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