That’s right, it’s April 20th! Today, some people are getting ready for Easter and some people are celebrating the fact that it’s the 20th day of the 4th month of the year and a lot of people are probably going to be doing both.
(Did you know that if you go over to Mike Gravel’s presidential campaign page and if you click on the donate link, there’s a specific option for people who want to make a donation of exactly $4.20? A lot of that, I assume, has to do with the fact that Mike Gavel’s campaign is being run by two teenagers. Mike Gavel is like nearly a thousand years old so I doubt he knows the significance of it.)
Anyway, my initial plan for today was to share the video for Get Yourself High by The Chemical Brothers but then I searched the site and guess what? I already shared that video! So, instead, here’s the video of Kitty’s Marijuana, which is I guess a more obvious choice for 4-20 but still a valid one.
Finally! A video that delivers exactly what it promises.
Speaking of water, I mentioned earlier that it rained all day Saturday. Well, despite that, It didn’t rain at all on Sunday and I have to say that I’m a little bit disappointed. I really enjoyed that rain and the bad weather gave me the perfect excuse to spend an entire day doing nothing. Fortunately, it does appear that it might rain over the upcoming week so keep me in your storm-filled thoughts!
On Saturday, it rained nonstop. From the minute I woke up until I finally pretended to go to bed, it was raining. As a result, the backyard looks like a swamp right now and I imagine it will probably be a few days before everything dries out. The creek at the end of the street is overflowing with water so we’ll probably have a lot of confused ducks in the neighborhood tomorrow. That’s what the rain usually seems to bring around here.
Anyway, all of that rain put me in the proper mood for this video. It’s kind of a mood piece. It involves a lot of water.
Seriously, I love Blanck Mass. Blanck Mass is responsible for some of my favorite writing music. (And, by that, I mean that I often have Chernobyl playing in the background whenever I’m writing.) Songs like this are all about creating and capturing a mood. And really, I guess how you react to or interpret the song will probably depend on what’s going on in your life when you listen to it. Right now, I’m giving a lot of thought to the circle of life so, when I hear this song, I think about the inevitably of death.
And then I watch this video, where is pretty much permeated with doom. Everything is going to die, even the plants. That’s just the cycle of life. New things will ride to replace the old. Sometimes, those new things aren’t going to be good things but, fortunately, they’ll eventually become old things and then die. And they’ll be replaced by something else. And I guess that’ll keep happening until the sun goes supernova or the Earth gets sucked into black hole or whatever it is that all the fatalists are predicting this week. Myself, I think the world will end someday but it won’t be for at least a century or two so I’m not too worried about it.
(Of course, what would suck would be to discover that reincarnation is a real thing and, as a result, we’re all destined to continually be reborn until we all experience the end of the world firsthand. That would be a really cruel joke on the part of the universe. However, I do not believe in reincarnation. I mean, I know at least half a dozen people who all claim that they were Cleopatra in a past life so they can’t all be right. Can they? If I did believe in reincarnation, I would say that I was probably once Edie Sedgwick. Or maybe Clara Bow.)
Anyway, it’s all about cycle of life. Don’t start singing that Lion King song at me, either. I’m just stating a fact.
(Actually, it could just as well be taking a dig at the infamous David Icke. At least, I hope it’s taking a dig. If Benjamin Power is a follower of David Icke’s, I’m going to be depressed.)
I’ve actually had several dreams that are just like this music video.
Now, I’m sure that someone out there is probably saying, “CUE THE BIRD? Is that really the director’s name?” Well, actually, CUE THE BIRD is the name use by the creative duo of JP Stiles and Harrison Mack. According to their bio over on Vimeo, “CTB specializes in creating and curating content for the short attention generation.” That may be one reason why I like this video because, as any regular reader of this site should know by now, I’ve only got a four-minute attention span.
Through the Shattered Lens