today i was reading the scribbler's post about new york and she mentioned owl city. sweet pea loves the song fireflies by owl city. which got the song stuck in my head. i'm connecting the dots from my mind for you....my world is very stream of consciousness. i went to youtube and i was checking out the fireflies video. ON MY LUNCH HOUR. and i love new music. so i picked another song at random and came up with vanilla twilight. you still here? take a break. watch the video.
upon first glance i liked it because shaq has a cameo. why is shaq in this video? why do i like shaq so much? laker hater. i do not know but i'm interested. so i watched again, still paying close attention to all things shaq and paid more attention to the words. because i'm at work people...ON MY LUNCH HOUR...and occasionally get interrupted...by work. please do not let me get dooced because of this post. and then i noticed everyone looking at the sky. and then shaq mouths the words, "take me with you." and all i could think about was my dad. and i was bawling. and, well, it's not that i wanted my dad to take me with him. seriously. but i'm sure everyone who loses someone...doesn't really want to be left behind, right? i digress...i don't think that this song is about losing a parent necessarily. but still. i read the lyrics and realized you could only roughly apply them to losing a parent if you were REALLY stretching. then i found a version of vanilla twilight with the twilight movie characters. was this song in twilight? for a second time, the meaning i originally gave this video was cast out. but at least shaq was in it. and i like the song. a nod to owl city. thanks for getting this started, scribs. did i mention that sweet pea really likes the song fireflies? and it's stuck in my head. xoxo
Great post as always.
ReplyDeleteIf you like Owl City, you should also check out Go Periscope. It's a couple of guys from Seattle with a similar sound.