Wednesday, November 12, 2008

nostalgia


Is it possible to have nostalgia for a past you've never lived through?
I'm sitting in a Starbucks trying to study, but they're playing a bunch of oldies and my mind is wandering. For instance, right now they're playing "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" and I feel like I should be in a poodle skirt. Not that I particularly have a desire to live in the 1950s. I don't dig containment culture, cold war and the fear-mongering that went along with it. But there are some things I get nostalgic about. Lounge music does the same thing for me. Strange, I know. "The Girl from Ipanema" can be playing and forget it--I feel like I belong in the 50s hosting a cocktail party. I don't particularly associate these times with happiness or traditional values once had. Or do I?

3 comments:

jenn (+ will) said...

oh how i love bossa nova. thanks for the bday wish! girls night, soon, lemme know when you can!

Cal said...

Samba and Bossa Nova give me nostalgia from my mission. I love that brazilian jazz! We played it as the background music at our wedding and let me tell you, it sends you into a grooove! And understanding the lyrics is a special bonus for me. Portuguese is the language of love! That girl from Ipanema. Let's host a mocktail party by the pool and buy 50's swimsuits, then you can have nostalgia for something that really happened! Or, we could go to Brazil.. whichever one.

ダビト HYPE GROUP said...

I guess you feel Nostalgia, specially when you didn' t know the time you feel Nostalgia for, when you are not fitting well into your time...
Don' t you think so ??
Dave