Daily Archives: November 27, 2006

Memphis Liner Notes.

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This came wrapped around my copy of “A Good Day Sailing” and I love it:

This record is a five-track EP by a group called Memphis. But they aren’t really a group, more of an idea or a thought you might have when you’re at work watching the rain fall and wondering what you might have been. No forget that. That’s not Memphis; Memphis is a place, a kind of haze, a southern place maybe but not the city itself, somewhere further south where you are a stranger and the evenings are endless. No, that’s romance. That’s a lie. Memphis is music to fall asleep to and to wake up to and to break up to. Memphis is music for the masses though you’re one of the few who will ever read this. Memphis is me and my friend Chris who I love and it’s an attempt to reflect beauty back into the world, and it’s a pop song. Memphis is a pop song…or two.

Big Screen: Bobby

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A little convoluted at the beginning, but when you get to the end you figure it out and the whole movie makes sense.

Basically four (or five/six?/can’t remember exactly) other people were shot (but not killed, according to the post script, although it seemed like one character was definitely pretty close to dead!) when Bobby Kennedy was shot / it was in a crowd. So the movie follows those characters throughout their entire day until the shooting. So at first, I GUESS I can see why people are confused because it doesn’t come clear why you are following those specific characters until they get shot at the end.

But why does it have to be clear? Whatever, I didn’t have a problem with that myself.

So what is the point of that set-up? The point is that each of those people had hopes and dreams about the future, and Bobby Kennedy represented at least one little part of their hopes & dreams. That so many people lost something that day / not just the OBVIOUS. That an event like that can turn your life upside down whether or not you’re political and whether or not you agreed with his stance. And that, overall, in the big scheme of things, it was a huge moment. Arguably huger than his brother’s shooting, because his brother’s shooting is part of the history. Because it was the SECOND time. Because it closely followed MLK’s shooting. Because these things don’t just happen to one person / they happen to all of us / and there is/was a cumulative effect flowing through those years.

Because sometimes what someone stands for is so much bigger than who they were.

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