A lovestruck Romeo, sings the streets of serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Find a streetlight, steps out of the shade Says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it?"
Juliet says, "Hey, it's Romeo, you nearly gave me a heart attack" He's underneath the window, she's singing Hey, la, my boyfriend's back" You shouldn't come around here, singing up at people like that Anyway what you gonna do about it?Juliet, the dice was loaded from the start And I bet and you exploded in my heart And I forget, I forget the movie song When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?Come up on different streets, they both were streets of shame Both dirty, both mean, yes and the dream was just the same And I dream your dream for you and now your dream is real How can you look at me, as if I was just another one of your deals?you can fall for chains of silver, you can fall for chains of gold You can fall for pretty strangers and the promises they hold You promised me everything, you promised me thick and thin Now you just say, "Oh, Romeo, yeah, you know I used to have a scene with him"Juliet, when we made love, you used to cry I said, "I love you like the stars above, "I love you till I die" And there's a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?I can't do the talk like the talk on the TV And I can't do a love song like the way it's meant to be I can't do everything but I'd do anything for you I Can't do anything except be in love with youAnd all I do is miss you and the way we used to be All I do is keep the beat, the bad company And all I do is kiss you, through the bars of a rhyme Juliet, I'd do the stars with you any timeJuliet, when we made love, you used to cry I said, "I love you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die" And there's a place for us, you know the movie song When you gonna realize, it was just that the time was wrong, Juliet?A lovestruck Romeo, he sings the streets of serenade Laying everybody low with a love song that he made Find a convenient streetlight, steps out of the shade He says something like, "You and me, babe, how about it?"
~ Dire Straits
...love this song. actually prefer the Indigo Girls version below.
...after the warm up, this is the song i've been kicking off my runs with. a bit high octane. like the equivelant of screaming into your pillow in order to let out a vent, only you're pounding the pavement instead.
(When this began) I had nothing to say And I get lost in the nothingness inside of me (I was confused) And I let it all out to find That I'm not the only person with these things in mind (Inside of me) But all that they can see the words revealed Is the only real thing that I've got left to feel (Nothing to lose) Just stuck,hollow and alone And the fault is my own, and the fault is my own
I wanna heal I wanna feel, what I thought was never real I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long (Erase all the pain 'til it's gone) I wanna heal I wanna feel, like I'm close to something real I wanna find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong And I've got nothing to say I can't believe I didn't fall right down on my face (I was confused) Looking everywhere, only to find That it's not the way I had imagined it all in my mind (So what am I) What do I have but negativity 'Cause I can't justify the way everyone is looking at me (Nothing to lose) Nothing to gain, hollow and alone And the fault is my own, the fault is my own I wanna heal I wanna feel, what I thought was never real I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long (Erase all the pain 'til it's gone) I wanna heal I wanna feel, like I'm close to something real I wanna find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong I will never know Myself until I do this on my own And I will never feel Anything else until my wounds are healed I will never be Anything 'til I break away from me I will break away I'll find myself today I wanna heal I wanna feel, what I thought was never real I wanna let go of the pain I've felt so long (Erase all the pain 'til it's gone) I wanna heal I wanna feel, like I'm close to something real I wanna find something I've wanted all along Somewhere I belong I wanna heal I wanna feel like I’m somewhere I belong I wanna heal I wanna feel like I’m somewhere I belong Somewhere I belong...
And if they don't. They should all just live vicariously through Aric.
Awesome voice. A way with words and an eye for telling stories through his pictures.
Oh and he never stays in one place for very long. Ever.
So I met Aric two years ago on one of my visits back to Shanghai. He was in the process of creatively getting himself kicked out of China with a show on Current TV called Shanghai Diaries. We've been good friends ever since.
The past few years I feel like I've lived my life by walking in a vague direction of where my heart or gut has told me to go and I've learned to trust that i'll always end up where I need to be.
I thank and blame that in part to Aric's influence.
The below video is a few minutes of pure nostalgia for Leah and I but go ahead and feel free to watch along. I'm pretty sure he got kicked out of China the week after this. Buy him a beer and he'll tell you the story one day. :)
Update: Leah reminded me that this series won Aric the Most Prolific Vlogger award at Current in 2008.
...been getting some great suggestions for my playlist to push me past the little plateaus of my runs. going to start sharing some particularly cool discoveries. love the lyrics on this one.
Summer time and the wind is blowing outside in lower Chelsea And I don't know what I'm doing in this city The sun is always in my eyes It crashes through the windows And I'm sleeping on the couch When I came to visit you That's when I knew That I could never have you I knew that before you did Still I'm the one who's stupid And there's this burning Like there's always been I've never been so alone And I've Never been so alive Visions of you on a motorcycle drive by The cigarette ash flies in your eyes and you don't mind you smile And say the world it doesn't fit with you I don't believe you You're so serene Careening through the universe Your axis on a tilt You're guiltless and free I hope you take a piece of me with you
And there's things I'd like to do That you don't believe in I would like to build something But you'll never see it happen And there's this burning Like there's always been I've never been so alone And I've I've never been so alive And there's this burning There is this burning (yeaa) Where's the soul I want to know New York City is evil The surface is everything But I could never do that Someone would see through that And this is the last time We'll be friends again And I'll get over you And you'll wonder who I am And there's this burning, Just like there's always been I've never been so alone, alone And I've, and I've I've never been so alive So alive I go home to the coast it starts to rain I paddle out on the water Alone Taste the salt and taste the pain I'm not thinking of you again Summer dies and swells rise The sun goes down in my eyes See this rolling wave Darkly coming To take me Home And I never been so alone And I've never been so alive
So I get this random tweet from my boy Paul. Usually I don't indulge in memes. But this involves shoes. I make exceptions for shoes. So here I am playing along with something his friend Lance started here. So this is me and my shoe. It was lust at first sight.
UPDATE: Paul created a Tumblr site for Me & My Shoes. You should add yours.
My friend Shaun Rein wrote an op/ed today in Forbes called "The Great Recession Saved My Generation" reflecting on Generation X type stuff. I think it's worth a read and retweet. Mostly known for his talks and opinions on China and consumer market trends, I must admit I look forward to the ones where he gets out of China mode and shares his thoughts on stuff like this:
As I neared 30, I realized that many of my classmates were still living off their parents, or were crammed into little boxes with four or five roommates while slaving into the wee hours at firms like Goldman Sachs and Google. They had all gone to the right prep schools and the right colleges and had gotten into the right analyst programs at the white shoe banks, but they still didn't seem to be living up to their own or their parents' expectations. The vast majority of them were laid off at least once in the era of the dot-com bust, and several more than once. But still we didn't have a shared identity. The dot-com blowup only affected the more affluent swaths of America, and the hedge fund boom of the 2000s certainly didn't touch America's heartland.
Anyways, reading that made me want to write a bit about him today. See, I met Shaun back in 2007 when I was host and producer of a podcast for Entrepreneur Magazine called The China Business Show. I interviewed him for his China insight and we quickly became friends because he fit in my subconscious strategy of surrounding myself with people who make me look smart by association. He's a really sharp guy. And he knows it too as I sometimes think he gets some perverse joy out of reading comments from trolls trying to knock down his ego. But I digress.
Over the past several years, he's developed this talent for giving me advice on all sorts of stuff in my life that I always HATE hearing at the time. Even if I'm not asking for his opinion, he'll offer it. My business. My divorce. Raising my son alone. I think he's even thrown in a bit of dating advice that I never asked him for -- err, maybe that's why i'm still single. But that's Shaun for you. Yes. I said I HATE his advice. Not because I don't need it, mostly in part because it usually results in me going back to him 6 months later on one of my visits to Shanghai and telling him over coffee that he was right. I HATE feeding egos, but I'll always give credit where credit is due.
So yea Shuan. I know. You told me so. This blog post is my way of saying thank you.
