This sounds like … (part 5).
(AUDIO: While My Guitar Gently Weeps by the Beatles)
1. A movie montage.
2. Designer drugs that haven’t been invented yet.
3. The kitsch of Latin-American religious iconography.
4. The dark horse of unrequited love.
5. Leaving everything else behind.
6. Closing credits.
7. Sexual hypnosis from across an unlit hotel room.
8. The strange dynamic of a furniture museum.
9. Embossed butterscotch leather from the tanneries.
10. A coney island of the mind / how it references T.S. Eliot.
11. Degas’ ballet dancers.
12. Being proud of someone else for the first time.
13. The architecture of forestry.
14. The first cold Autumn / Winter day in New York.
15. Keeping a grey cashmere scarf for 10 years just because.
16. Understanding all the clever cultural references, all the time.
17. Not understanding why the caged bird sings.
18. Being hip enough to love the Beatles more than the Stones.
19. Trusting your own creativity.
20. Never losing a staring content, for never joining one.
21. Seeing the translation between numbers, colors, letters, words.
22. Knowing where you came from, not looking back.
23. Knowing the difference between untuned and detuned.
24. Creative pioneerism without fragility.
25. The profound spark of everyday invention.
