October 31st, 2008
Old, new, and always the music
Music is always going to be important. The first time you hear a song at an important time in your life, it bonds to your heart and then forever that song is your own at that moment in time. Bands are associated with phases of your life, or new loves and breakups. I first discovered Coldplay when I was living in San Diego, at that extremely tense and transitionary period between graduate school and Japan. Warning Sign and The Scientist were huge on the radio; I often heard them in my PoS Escort rental car when driving down highway 78 home after work.
After Nobue left me it was Clocks that flew with me into a turbulent new life in Tokyo. A Rush of Blood to the Head was so representative of all the jumbled acceptance and rejection I was going through at the time. Now I’ve just heard Lovers in Japan (ironically) for the first time on Italian radio, and it seems with another album release, my life comes full circle again. So not ready to accept what I have, so driven to become so much more.
