Yesterday, and yes I can say yesterday now since it is 12:30 Thanksgiving morning, was a day full of driving and apocalyptic movies (2012). After the drive back home and a tasty family dinner which got my acid reflux’a’bubblin (You have no clue what Thanksgiving is going to do to me and by me I mean my poor stomach) my family and I went to go see a late showing of the apocalypse in HD. I, of course mean 2012.
The movie has not been reviewed well and I have to admit even the torpid scientist in me knew that the apocalyptic situation portrayed was so unlikely it neared on stupid, but, the message that shined throughout the movie was an in-your-face knock-out hope that, while it may have benefited from being more subtle, still existed. Hope in apocalyptic situations is always good. Hope for an indelible humanity that should remain ingrained in our hearts and minds. It is the only thing keeping us from destroying ourselves and the feeling that inevitably links us during times of horror and happiness. Well, the idealist in me is coming out again just in time for the celebration of Thanksgiving later on today.
The basis for the holiday does not matter. What does live on is that every year my extended family gets together and catches up over pigs in a blanket and pieces of salami (the best kind of hor’dourves) and while I am chowing down on some of my grandma’s irresistable stuffing I witness this and smile. This is the day of the year that we can all be happy to just have each other and, in the spirit of the movie I just saw, I would like to say I am thankful for my family most of all. Because, in an unstable world where events take place without any specific order and the end of days (however unlikely) can creep upon us at the most inopportune times (I do not know when the end of days would ever be a welcome event) one can always take solace in the enduring love of those closest to you and the existant love of those fellow human beings all around you.
So, in that spirit I bring you the song I am most thankful for and that is “Imagine,” by John Lennon
For those who know me, I have an unhealthy obsession with the music and being of John Lennon. Yes he was arrogant but I do not care. The man understood something that many people just cannot grasp on to. This is that a seemingly impossible harmony can be reached if people just wanted it.
Spending an entire semester reading post-apocalyptic novels for my Apocalyptic Literature class and just getting out of an apocalyptic movie (I cannot avoid the apocalypse) has taught me one thing. When the day strikes where the ostensible sh*t hits the fan nothing really matters anymore. Nothing except for people. We only have each other folks. You have those around you at your Thanksgiving tables. That crazy uncle, that kissing aunt, that hard-of-hearing grandpa. You have your friends, your acquaintances, your fellow man, woman, and child. So, yeah, get used to it!
This is the message that Lennon is attempting to get out through his ode to a peaceful world. Imagine. You are not required. Take a second out of your time if you would like and just imagine there was no heaven, no hell, no countries, no possessions, nothing to kill or die for, “A Brotherhood of Man.” Just imagine this. It may seem unlikely, heck, as near impossible as the spawning of the apocalypse gracing the morning skies during the Macy’s Day Parade in New York City later on today (Okay, this is the most opportune time for the apocalypse to happen. Just Kidding!), but, just remember these words.
“You may say that I’m a dreamer. But I’m not the only one. I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one.”
Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okd3hLlvvLw
From all of us at the Music Court I wish you and your family a very happy thanksgiving.
What songs are you thankful for? Comment below and let us know what and why.
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It’s a close tie, but I’m gonna have to give it to “Bowl of Oranges” by Bright Eyes, with “Birdhouse in your Soul” by They Might Be Giants in close second.
Bowl of Oranges is a quick departure from the usual depression Conor Oberst likes to pour out in his lyrics. In it he instead speaks of hope, and how no matter how sh*tty your situation might seem, life is a great mysterious journey that everyone should be thankful to be a part of. I really can’t pick out any one line of the song to really exemplify the message, so just lok them up on your own, the whole song is great.
As for Birdhouse, just try to listen to that song and still be sad by the end. Every time I’m feeling down, I use that to help pick me up.
Hi people, it is Thanksgiving Day! I’m enjoying my extra day off, and I am planning to doing something fun that will probably involve a moto trip and seeing something new in Pewaukee I haven’t seen yet.
You write something new at Thanksgiving?