clarity

Sometimes I have to remind myself how amazing a certain song is and how it affected me the first time I heard it. For me, it's "Table For Glasses" by Jimmy Eat World, the first song that made me believe that a band's music can be cinematic. It plays on my iTunes as we speak. Any group of individuals who can make the sentence "sweep the dirty stairs" musical and beautiful is genius.

I first heard this song on a road trip to San Fran.. Just me, Kuya, and Donny, my cousin. Incidentally, I am eternally grateful to Donny who first introduced me to Thrice. He was helping another band with their first cd, and they thanked him by giving him a Thrice cd, the "First Impressions" ep. I am now the proud owner of that cd--he gave it to me for my birthday a while back since he knew how much I love them. He also met Teppei! Anyway, Kuya put that song on, and it changed the whole mood of the car. Everyone was silent, listening to the song.

I was moved. Speechless. "To make sense of it, make it last." Amazing. Beautiful. I'll never forget our silence, the endless stretch of green and yellow farmland, and Jimmy Eat World blasting on the stereo. After the song ended I asked, "Who was that?"

"Clarity" came at the perfect time of my life. As did "Vheissu". It's lovely when things work out like that.

I leave for home again Tuesday night. Another flight home. None of them will ever compare to Flight 384, though. I swear, there's something about airports. I love them. Great for people-watching. It's nice to know that someone is seeing a new place for the first time, that someone is needed somewhere, that someone is starting somewhere new.

plans for Thanksgiving vacation:
1. eat turkey and mashed potatoes and pumpkin pie and...
2. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (maybe?)
3. shopping for Christmas presents
4. playing some piano: I really miss not having a piano. I love the piano and am really glad my parents got me to take lessons. So invaluable.