Saturday, March 21, 2015

Sail




I love lessons that run counter to the usual human discourse. And so I was delighted to read the story of the sleeper hit song "Sail".

"Sail" is a song by a Aaron Bruno with a group called Awolnation. I, like a lot of people, millions of people, like the song, but my liking it is entirely beside the point. The point is that a musician, without a huge amount of success behind him, recorded this song. He did it in one take and the engineer on the song thought they needed another because of some distortion. Aaron Bruno said, in response to this "Who cares? No one's gonna care about this song anyway."

Fame and fortune followed. It's one of the most successful songs of the past five years.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow once wrote:

Lives of great men all remind us 
We can make our lives sublime, 
And, departing, leave behind us 
Footprints on the sands of time.

I guess that's one of ol' Longfellow's footprints there. But I am going to defy the whole point of Longfellow's poem and say: The ocean will wash away even footprints in the sands of time. 

I, for one, will try to take heart from that. And you can too, if you want. It hardly matters. One day very soon it will all be forgotten.






6 comments:

  1. Dang it!!!!! You blogger you!!! I had such an important day planned, one that would almost for certain be remembered through time immemorial, and now look what you did! Dang it! Shucks!!!

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    1. How about a thousand years? Would it be worth it if your day were remembered for a thousand years? No? It has to be immemorial? Okay then, I make this exception just once, I will remember your blog comment for eternity. But that's it!

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    2. I will take 1000 years. That's a deal. By that time I should have figured something else out.

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    3. Wait, what were we talking about again?

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  2. Commodities. You were going to commodify your journey which is against the wishes of the eagle spirit. Perhaps your turkey guide will allow you to spin wealth from things before they dissolve back into everything.

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    1. Wait, which spirit are you? Birds spirits, people spirits, coyotes, talking trees...

      I wouldn't know how to commodify a stack of 20 dollar bills. The turkey guide is going to have to do a good deal more than allow.

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