song of the week: lenka, the show
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elsh3J5lJ6g
sometimes it takes a day, sometimes it takes a year. sometimes it takes whiskey. no, maybe not that. well, maybe sometimes. whatever conditions [precedent] it has, i think it probably comes from inner calm, calm that comes from a place you sink to to realise. and they're not formulated as solutions, because i don't think in life the end of one's struggles are solutions, but more, i dunno, meta-spiritually, i think in the end the most that you can ask for, and indeed to a not un-satisfying extent, get, are perspectives. perspectives are not the answer, but they explain the question, they explain your question. and i think in life that is what most people are looking for, more than answers.
as humphrey bogart famously said, things are never so bad they can't be made worse. but let me claim to understand him a little bit better, and i think he says it in a light-hearted manner. just picture it, his cigarette, his cream suit, his self-deprecating smile. it's a yogi-ism. things are never so bad, and then it's funny that they can be made worse. just watch casablanca, you'll get what i mean. things are never so bad, and it includes him cracking a joke.
just hear him in your head... "of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine..." oh! classic.
