I've been back in real contact with Derek Cornish and Vince Cannata after decades apart. Someday I might be able to begin to explain who they are - and what they represent - but it will take a million fragments to piece together the whole story. Like a gigantic Seurat painting that will probably never be finished in any one medium.
What they first bring to mind is the role of music in my life, since the beginning. And for some reason, I am posting this video. And so often, especially between me and those two guys, reasons for any piece of music were never explainable beyond the music itself.
This is probably the only song I know that drags out nearly every emotion I have had in the past 40 years of my life in less than five minutes. So that's why it's here. The rest is, well, the rest.
Here's to genius.
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
Tuesday A/V: One
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3 comments:
WOW....I don't know what to say....
I am touched.....and I feel the same way.
Perhaps we should write a book about those summers....1985...1986....definately book material...or at least an HBO original series....
I think there was a great deal of truth and hints at what the world would become, or could have become, these days when we look back at what many of us lived through together during those amazing summers in the mid-80s. We are a fascinating generation. It is funny too -- much of the scene we were part of on Long Island was seen as 'dangerous' and 'counter-culture' to the max at the time, and today it looks so incredibly innocent.
GREAT song!
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