I want to hear her fingerprints
It’s bonus blog entry night! This has been half-written in my drafts for a long time, but the book was so fabulous that I’m going to just post what I had written so it doesn’t get lost in the pile of half-written memories.
Based on a recommendation from Pamie.com is reading when I was at the library because it sounded neat. It’s called “Love Is A Mix Tape: Life and Loss, One Song at Time” and is written by Rob Sheffield, who is a music critic for Rolling Stone, and it’s his memoirs, but he uses a series of mix tapes he’s made to relive those times. The first chapter talks about his wife dying after 5 years, 10 months of marriage, and it is him listening to a mix tape she made and he’s staying up all night listening to it over and over. “I now get scared about forgetting anything about Renee, even the tiniest detail, even the bands on this tape I can’t stand - if she touched them, I want to hear her fingerprints….I count on the music to bring me back — or more precisely, to bring her forward.” I just freaking love that, probably because I see myself in there so much. Music is like that for me. We were just talking about that at lunch the other day, how a song can bring back such a vivid memory. A specific moment in time, a person, an emotion. So many songs remind me of so many things, and that can never be replaced. The book goes on to tell the story of their relationship and his life after her death, and uses various mixtapes to do it. It’s really a beautiful tribute to someone that obviously impacted his life in a huge way.
July 6th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Did you hear about BVA doing living room concerts? Do you have him friended on myspace? He posted it on a bulletin~
July 6th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
I did hear about that. Are you going to book him? I really can’t justify paying his airfare and all that just to have him play for me.
I did send him a couple of other fundraising ideas I’ve seen other artists do, so hopefully we’ll get that new album sooner than later.