Rather than whine and moan about the state of the present, maybe we just all have to take a step back and say “maybe this is just what it’s supposed to be like”.
I won’t claim to be an expert on politics. Actually I won’t claim to be an expert on anything. I’m just another dope wandering about and wondering where it is I’m actually going. But on the politics, just because my idealism doesn’t quite match up to the way things seem to going in the real world, that doesn’t necessarily mean I want to raise all hell. I’m quite content with not involving myself and observing from the sidelines until inevitably one set of people are left red-faced and another set smugly grin from ear to ear.
To be honest, both of those groups sound hideous anyway. I wouldn’t want to be left embarrassed on the “losing” side and I wouldn’t want to feel so up myself and inflict my unruly egotism on others if I was on the “winning” side. Can we not just forget about winning and losing? Can we not just put our egos aside and just get on with each other?
No, evidently. Because the human race has been genetically programmed to behave to the highest levels of arseholery. Oh well. We tried, I suppose.
I didn’t really mean to ramble about politics. I try not to really do it. In fact, this only started because I thought of the line “maybe this is just what it’s supposed to be like” as I crawled through traffic for an hour and a half one evening.
With things often feeling a bit Groundhog Day-y, you’d think that a tune like this would grate. A repetitive and cyclical melody with music video to mirror it, it seems to say: “hey, look at this rut and how much you’re stuck in it.” Thankfully, my mind-space has gotten better at coping with the humdrum monotony of the everyday routine it doesn’t annoy me so much.
Moody and mellow with a bit of a weird timing structure, this is exactly the kind of thing that would pass me by if I didn’t document it in a list of music that strikes me each week. Maybe I’ll look back on it this time next year and wonder what the hell I was thinking. But then again, maybe I won’t.
Jesca Hoop – The Lost Sky
Jamie Walsh 
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