Sunday, July 29, 2007

"Third time's a charm."

I think "Clair de Lune" by Claude Debussy is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever created and I don't care if you all think it's as trite as a Impressionist painting. If OFAG the Musical ever sees the light of day, the song will surely have a feature, perhaps when our heroine spies a beautiful woman at the end of an unusually empty Manhattan street. The air will be crisp, the nighttime sky clear, and the song will play like a soundtrack. But until then I think you all should take five minutes of your time, shut off the mobile phone and the lights, put on the headphones, and close your eyes as you listen to "Clair de Lune" while imagining everything in the world fading away.



As it is almost midnight here and I have the song playing. It makes me forget that spent my entire Sunday working on freelance design, that my body aches from my desk chair, that I need to do laundry, that I have nothing to wear for my date tomorrow, that I ran out of cat food, that I think I may have my first ever UTI, that I have a crush on someone that I shouldn't, that there is no more Harry Potter to read, that I have to go back to work tomorrow but what I really want to do is go on vacation, or stay at home and write and forget that I'm broke. It makes me forget all my worries, troubles, consternations, and lets me melt into one of the most beautiful songs ever written. I makes me wish that I was in a dark room and completely oblivious to the world at large, tricking myself into believing that I am floating amongst the stars.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

It is one of the best pieces of music indeed...

Anonymous said...

"...I have a crush on someone that I shouldn't..."

how about a hint?

nycrouge said...

I'll leave that for the DVD extras version of Post No Bills.