I picked up the latest from The Finn Brothers last weekend as well as some old Crowded House cds since my originals are on tape. Josh and I found out were each Crowded House fans back in the day and my friend Kim introduced me to Split Enz, so I figured this collaboration would be quite lovely, and it is. It is rich and melodic; Neil and Tim Finn's voices blend very well, as they should. I'm usually a music first, lyrics/vocals second person, but these lyrics are very intelligent and bring out the melodies. I was happy to find out this week that they will be in Louisville and Cincinnati next month, do go check them out if you have the chance.
One of their songs is titled "Homesick" and a line in the chorus really caught my attention: "Homesick for the country that I'm living in". Even though they're from New Zealand, my mind twisted it to my experience, and I thought you know, I'm homesick for the country I'm living in too. So much has changed in the last 4 years. I'm homesick for the way things used to be, a mere 4 years ago. Maybe its just me getting older, and everyone longs for a "simpler time", but with the war, the cultural attacks, and the overall conservatism this country is in right now, I am homesick for the way things used to be. I don't know when the pendulum will swing back. Another 4 years I suppose, if not more, but its definitely time.
It can also be said that I'm also homesick for my hometown and am trying my hardest to get back there. It is where Josh and my family are and I feel sane and relaxed when I'm there. I hate the drive back to Lexington, I just get irritated once I see the blue building and the lights of downtown and Hamburg as I approach on the interstate. Lexington was home for a while, but it is no more.
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I hear ya, Brandi, although my local homesickness is in reverse, which I guess is not really homesickness at all. I live in Georgetown now and I don't miss Lexington at all. No more than I did when I was living in Mt. Sterling. Sure there are places around town that spark nostalgic thoughts, taking me back to my junior high and high school days, but it's nothing that I wouldn't appreciate just as much if I was just visiting as opposed to living there.
It's crazy, too, how Lexington is influencing the surrounding counties, turning them into suburbs of the bigger city. It stares me in the face every day on the way to work. I'll be sitting at a stop light going south on Broadway in GEORGETOWN, and I can see the big blue building (my dad calls it Donald and Dudley Webb's bug whacker). It's like we're not even in a different county.
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