Monday, June 30, 2008

Song experiences

23 is the kind of song you might listen to on a road trip. After stopping and getting entranced with a gigantic bumble bee feeding on a flower, but at the same time feeling a little bit weirded out by it, you might notice a person who looks a little ill out of the corner of your eye, and feel a strange sense of concern for the person, who is completely dressed in white and just for some reason looks like he's not feeling well. But then you'd end up driving away in the car anyways. While listening to the song, the car would begin to vibrate and feel very unsteady. You'd end up pulling over to the edge of the road, running into the woods twice, feeling really weird again, looking at the shredded tire, feeling kind of like your heart was just gouged out, talking in a very disoriented fashion on the dying cell phone (which would make the tow truck guy quite grouchy with you), trying to ignore the safety warning in French on the visor, reading a magazine to be calm, feeling very quiet in the tow truck, getting a new tire in a gas station, the tow truck driver beams at you with the good news, you hand over the credit card, later you stare at some signs for "Heartbreak Kid" and "Why Did I Get Married" (movies). As you drive away, you'd begin to feel really mad but try to put an almost half fun spin on the whole situation by imagining a shoot out between two people in a saloon in a comedy. You would no longer be listening to "23."

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