Tell Me All Your Thoughts On God

If you immediately burst into song after reading the title of this post (You were probably thinking of the amazing band Dishwalla and their hit song 'Counting Blue Cars') or at the very least sung in your head "Cause I'm on my way to see her!" Right...they are not really amazing...but it made me think of something that I'm entirely positive happens to everyone out there. In fact I might have even written about this before.

I'm talking about the phenomenon that I call "False Nostalgia." The song 'Counting Blue Cars' elicits certain emotions and a vague stirrings in that gray matter I call a brain. The problem is, I graduated high school in 2004. To be quite honest I don't think that when I was 10 years old when this song was becoming increasingly popular anything was going on in my life that could be considered mind shattering. 10 years old...too young for a first love or some bizarre emotional scarring moment to occur. Yet taking all this into consideration, I still feel comfortable identifying this song as one of the many songs of my youth that immediately at least for a second put me into this weird warped nostalgia trip. Its not like I was driving my first love in a car to make out point with this song playing. But secretly do I wish this happened? Probably.

Of course music is truly the soundtrack of life. We all have songs that we heard on a road trip, or when a relative died, or in some way are to you the individual very significant for some reason. I guess I'm just repeating myself at this point but I am definitely constantly creating a lot of false narratives in my mind when certain songs come on the radio/ipod. An argument could be made that I always wanted to be a director so coming up with fun little music video concepts in my mind was something I'd do when listening to a random song on my bike ride to work or school.

With that in mind, one song I definitely create some bizarre false narrative nostalgia to is 'Brand New Colony' by The Postal Service. This song is definitely a "Fall Song" for me. Leaves better be on the ground and bright orange. Once you hit the 2:30 mark in the song I'd say that I would have this weird montage speed through of the season changing from Fall to Winter. As the song ends you'd have snow piling up with a closing shot of either a person by themselves or a couple walking in the distance in falling snow. Now this is always what i've thought about when I hear the end of the song. I've certainly been single. I've certainly been in snow, but never walked on some street with a perfect sheet of snow hand in hand with my girl as the song Brand New Colony fades out in the background. What does this all mean?

I think I need to sleep.