I’m not really sure why I felt so compelled to write tonight. I just watch the movie “Stuck in Love”. It’s a movie about a family, made up of a dad and his son and daughter and they are all writers. They live in a house on the beach in what looks like North or South Carolina. As soon as I learned of the plot of the movie, I knew I had to see it. The father, who is a very successful author, makes his kids keep journals. It seems as though he knew they were both natural born writers. As it turns out, his daughter comes home from college to announce that she is having her first book published and the movie seems to take off from there.

There’s something about people who read and write. I don’t mean that in the sense of people who are simply literate, but people who actually read books for fun I guess. It seems like people don’t read as much as they used to. What I’m trying to say can fit in with music too. When you look for meaning in something, it changes your perspective on what that thing is. Music and books are fascinating because you are either reading or hearing came straight from the mind of a completely different person. It’s trivial almost. Of course that’s the case. But it’s so much deeper than that. Having the ability to describe a complex emotion with words is an amazing thing. I don’t think most people see that. People see words for what they are, right there, in front of them and that’s it. But, the brilliance of the words lay beyond face value.

One of my favorite mixtures of words comes from a song by Third Eye Blind called Motorcycle Drive By. My favorite line specifically is, “You smile, and say the world it doesn’t fit with you. I don’t believe you. You’re so serene. Careening through the universe, your axis on a tilt. You’re guiltless and free. I hope you take a piece of me with you.” Every time I hear that line, it just puts such an image in my mind. It conveys what feels like every emotion Stephan Jenkins felt. Putting my thoughts and emotions into words is something I feel like I’ve never been very good at. I never feel like there are enough words to do it. But when you can do it, something amazing can arise from it.