Friday, December 12, 2003
"Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot."
-from Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell.
I love living in a big city. I was born in one, and I think it's just in me to live in metropolitan areas. But sometimes, I just wanna be surrounded by trees or something; to not hear the highway from anywhere I may be standing. Driving around the city today, trying to get my Christmas bearings straight, I just felt overwhelmed by the concrete-ness of it all. Bricks, asphalt, walls, signs. And the latest blight: cell phone antennas made to look like trees. Fuckin' things look like they're made of Duplo blocks that got caught in a green trash bag wind storm. Something just all wrong about that.
And yet, I look at something like that fake tree, and I'm driving something that's belching god knows what into the air as I'm holding a cell phone in my hand. Yeah, I don't know what I'm complaining about either.
I saw Joni Mitchell once. She drives cars, too. So I guess we're all hypocrits.
That you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot."
-from Big Yellow Taxi, Joni Mitchell.
I love living in a big city. I was born in one, and I think it's just in me to live in metropolitan areas. But sometimes, I just wanna be surrounded by trees or something; to not hear the highway from anywhere I may be standing. Driving around the city today, trying to get my Christmas bearings straight, I just felt overwhelmed by the concrete-ness of it all. Bricks, asphalt, walls, signs. And the latest blight: cell phone antennas made to look like trees. Fuckin' things look like they're made of Duplo blocks that got caught in a green trash bag wind storm. Something just all wrong about that.
And yet, I look at something like that fake tree, and I'm driving something that's belching god knows what into the air as I'm holding a cell phone in my hand. Yeah, I don't know what I'm complaining about either.
I saw Joni Mitchell once. She drives cars, too. So I guess we're all hypocrits.
