The Sun Also Rises...

Lately, I've been obsessed with Ryan Adam's latest record, 'Easy Tiger'...particularly the track called "The Sun Also Sets". Essentially, it reminds us just how close we are to death, destruction, ruin--all those good happy things. "Gee...really great, Justin...", you may be thinking, "Really, could you maybe be a bit more melancholy? Can you do that for us?" But actually, if you look at the song the way that it is written:

"There it is...we are only one push from the nest...
There it is...we are only one argument from death...
There it is...the sun rises, but the sun also sets..."

it actually reminds us that maybe, just maybe we should start, you know, living in the NOW for a change. Maybe we should start looking for those golden nuggets of hope out there. Maybe we should start finding the joy in our life and work, because at any given moment, that joy can be eradicated. "Live in the now", as they say. Whomever they are.

Oh, and the song title is also a pun on Ernest Hemingway's first novel, which happens to be the title of this blog. For those of you out there, you know, keeping score.

So yes. Basically, things are better. I'm starting to enjoy my work again...which I've not fully done in God knows how long.

I have a lot of work ahead of me for the remainder of this semester. Auditions for summer work, for next season at Krannert, memorization for my two acting classes that I have prevented myself from doing because, you know, I hated acting for awhile there...yeah. I have some things to do.

But at least I feel good about it.

Thanks to my friends for putting up with my bullshit. And for helping me see the proverbial light at the end of the tunnel. Which was pretty far off for some time.

Game on.