If you believe destiny brings people together, you have to admit that it can also keep them apart. You could be about to bump into your future wife on the street, spilling her coffee and giving her your number to pay for the dry-cleaning, when an extremely ornery emu that escaped from a private zoo runs into her instead, severely injuring her knee and leaving her scared of anyone about five feet tall with a skinny knee. So maybe in a long distance relationship, one weekend canceled because of an errant blizzard grounding a plane is the weekend that would have sealed the deal. Instead, doubts grow. And I don’t even think this song is about love, it’s about friendship. It’s about how lucky and unlucky we are to know the various people we know, and how if we lose a friend, we lose something irreplaceable.

So, I’ll risk embarrassment and failure to get back a friend. Or I will play them a concert in the back stairs.

Wikipedia page of the day: Nothing

This blog is named after the chorus from the Talking Heads song above. In the song, David Byrne is frustrated by his inability to change a mind. It’s unclear whether the mind in question is severely warped, or completely typical of society at large. In the same way, it’s unclear whether this blog is aimed at changing my own mind, or yours. Perhaps it’s a battle and we’ll see who wins. If nothing changes, I think that may be the worst sign. Good music, good writing, good art, by definition it must change us. It may be the only way we do change.

Wikipedia page of the day: Frost