walking through the woods i have faced it

[bluegreen17]

i haven't listened to r.e.m.'s 'out of time' for a long time. i loaned it to a friend i don't see much anymore and don't know if/when i'll ever get to collecting it back. but i borrowed a copy from the library today and it's lovely,lovely.

'losing my religion',which was quite a good-sized hit and still played on the radio quite a bit,is one of my least favorites on this album,though it's a pretty good song.

in 1989,the last year i saw r.e.m. play live,they did a song i really loved called 'belong'. very haunting.
it turned up on this album,which was released a year or so later. but there was something missing.

i asked my friend cyndy,whom i went road-tripping with in '89, about it.she knows more technical stuff about music than i do. it turns out that it was originally in a minor key,and when the recorded it,they recorded it in a major key. oh,well. i liked it better in it's early incarnation...

today i went for a long long walk in the cemetary down the street. there are a few birch trees in there,which i love.i often get very teary eyed in there,but it's actually nice because no one's around but me and the trees and the birds and the dead people,and they understand.it's very peaceful. and today i walked by a gravesite that was decorated with two pink flamingos! i had to laugh in spite of myself. i wish i'd known that person! it smelled really nice in the cemetary today. very pine-y.

40,000 stars in the evening
look at them fall from the sky
40,000 reasons for living
40,000 tears in your eyes
i would give my life to find it
i would give it all
catch me if i fall

(from 'texarkana' on 'out of time')

Comments

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I have always thought i was weird but maybe not but you talking aboput teh cemetary your walking through made me think of the fact that I Like to take rubbings of old headstones... I thought maybe i was a bit strange for liking to do that.. the older they are the cooler i think they are.
cemetarys are lovely places to reflect on your life... *smiles* no one to bother you.

[bluegreen17]

i think it's a neat thing to do!

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I need to (or need to have somebody)get to it's either NH or VT to find the cemetary that has the mummy buried there so i can get a rubbing of that headstone. I only take rubbings of interesting or different ones.

[bluegreen17]

that's bizarre. i've never heard of that!

[bayliss.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to find the place where i found the link for it for the last half hour and i am unable to do so... I may have to check under something different.. But yes there is a mummy buried up there somewhere... *smiles* I saw a rubbing for the headstone once.

[callavisage.livejournal.com]

It sounds like you did have a nice walk... and it seems like a very peaceful and natural place for a "walking meditation" of sorts.

[dahliablue.livejournal.com]

That walk sounds so wonderful. I love walking through cemeteries. They're so peaceful to me. I usually take photos and do rubbings of stones that catch my interest. Cemeteries are one of the few places I feel like I can just be myself, because no one's judging. Wherever everyone there is, there isn't a thing called judgment. And I like that.
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