time machine
// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Tech Tuesday
isn’t if funny how music can transport you to another time and place? i’ve realized this transportation can take on several forms:
some music is so relaxing that you imagine yourself on a beach, or in a steamy bubble bath. or it might just help to create a calm and peaceful feeling. i’m moved in this way whenever i hear enya. i can always unwind when listening to enya and i find myself picturing calm skies or ocean waves, but usually i find myself thinking about rolling green hills since i know it’s celtic music.
does anyone else see their own personal music video play out that correspond to the lyrics of a song? i certainly do. and i’d like to think i’m not crazy for doing this. in high school when mtv actually played music videos, i was a fan (shhh…don’t tell my mom). i dreamed of being a back up dancer – but that’s a whole different post. anyway…i see my own videos play out when i hear a song. you should see what i’ve put together for taylor swift’s love story. if i could actually produce and direct it, i’d be rich.
wait. are music video producers rich?
but the most amazing way music can transport you is the when you go back in time. a song you haven’t heard in ages plays and you can see yourself exactly in the spot you heard it for the first time or you remember that school dance or sleepover.
on friday i walked into a co-worker’s office and heard a song i know i haven’t heard since high school. i was instantly back in daniel porter’s red carpeted bedroom. i could see his large “stereo system” in it’s cabinet and guitar cord poster on the wall. i sat on the bed, he sat in a chair – was it a desk chair or just a chair? i can’t remember. and we talked. and talked. and talked.
the song was by burlap to cashmere. you know the one that goes something like “dickety, dickety, die, die, die. dickety, dickety, die”. (don’t quote me on that) i had to ask my coworker who sang it because i was drawing a blank while i sat in daniel’s bedroom. daniel was the first to introduce me to the band. and many other bands. i’d grown up listening to contemporary christian music and then transitioned into boy bands and rap (don’t judge). i had no idea about any other type of music. daniel opened my eyes. he opened my eyes to all kinds of things. family dynamics, outside the box ways of thinking, a different perspective on christianity. not only was i taken back to his room, but i left my coworker’s office thinking about what a wonderful friend daniel was. funny how music can bring so much back.
then i was teleported again this morning. dave matthews. don’t listen to him much, but i was no longer in my jetta, i was in my gray 199o subaru legacy that i shouldn’t drive on the freeway because it might break down. it was a summer night, windows down, music blaring on the way to laura’s house. *sigh*
i wonder what song will take me away next?
