Happy birthday Kierkegaard! In honor of one of my favorite humans of all time, I give you a brand new song (complete with e-bow and slide guitar...ooo, ahhh). Blackout is based on what I do best: existential angst! (No, really :) This song is simply about the parallels Ive found in what its like to blackout from dizziness or fatigue, and being face to face with painful nostalgia, mortality, and loss (and defiant regaining) of hope. I dearly hope you enjoy it! And now, a word from Kierkegaard to go with a humble piano tune: Memory is pre-eminently the real element of the unhappy, as is natural seeing the past has the remarkable characteristic that it is gone, the future that it is yet to come; and one can therefore say in a sense that the future is nearer the present than is the past. That future, for the hoping individual to be present in it must be real, or rather must acquire reality for him. The past, for the remembering individual to be present in it, must have had reality for him. But when the hoping individual would have a future which can have no reality for him, or the remembering individual remember a past which had had no reality for him, then we have the genuinely unhappy individuals. Unhappy individuals who hope never have the same pain as those who remember. Hoping individuals always have a more gratifying disappointment. The unhappiest one will always, therefore, be found among the unhappy rememberers - SK
Posted on: Mon, 05 May 2014 14:36:47 +0000