Friday, February 03, 2006
i've been playing the beatles' "rubber soul" album alot, lately. people think of "sgt. pepper" as the hippie beatles album but really it was "rubber soul" that was the hippie soundtrack. in the summer of 1965, the songs from that album were so pervasive, you heard them everywhere that you went and they sounded so new and so revolutionary. i've read that marijuana was the creative backbone of those songs....maybe the current generation of popstars should smoke more?
anyway, in my ongoing effort to regress, that's one of the albums i'm playing, trying to recapture the attitude and life view i had then. things seemed so easy. i didn't worry about the future and i was more self assured, even in adolescent angst. why is it, the older we get, the more frightened of life we become? one would think it would be the other way around. it took so little then to be happy and the feelings were so much more intense. how does one recapture that?
anyway, in my ongoing effort to regress, that's one of the albums i'm playing, trying to recapture the attitude and life view i had then. things seemed so easy. i didn't worry about the future and i was more self assured, even in adolescent angst. why is it, the older we get, the more frightened of life we become? one would think it would be the other way around. it took so little then to be happy and the feelings were so much more intense. how does one recapture that?
# posted by rae121452 : 2/03/2006 05:22:00 AM
